ATLANTIDE BY YURI ANCARANI
SYNOPSIS
Daniele is a young man who lives on the edges of the Venice Lagoon, he dreams a record breaking “barchino” (motorboat). A vestigial tale of male initiation, violent and destined to fail, it explodes dragging the ghost city along on a psychedelic shipwreck.
Original title: Atlantide Country: Italy, France, US, Qatar Language: Italian Running time: 100' Production Year: 2021
CAST
Daniele Barison, Maila Dabalà, Bianka Berenyi
CREW
Director: Yuri Ancarani Screenwriter: Yuri Ancarani Editor: Yuri Ancarani DOP: Yuri Ancarani Sound Design: Mirco Mencacci Production: Dugong Film, Luxbox Producer: Marco Alessi
Istanbul International Film Festival
Festival Gabes cinema Fen
Beldocs International Documentary Film Festival
Docaviv
Al Este de Lima
Transilvania International Film Festival - What’s up Doc Competition
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Imagina
Dokufest festival - View From the World
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Venice International Film Festival - Orizzonti
Batumi International Film Festival - Doc Films Competition section
Warsaw International Film Festival - Discoveries Section
La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival - Nouvelles Vagues Jury Award
Film Festival Cologne - Best of Cinema Documentary section
Viennale - Main Program
Mostra de Sao Paolo - New Directors Competition
Brisbane International Film Festival
Thessaloniki International Film Festival - Film Forward Competition
Seville European Film Festival - The New Wave Competition Non Fiction
David di Donatello Awards - Best Documentary
Ljubljana International Film Festival - Official Competition
Filmmaker Festival
Exground Filmfest - Youth Days Competition
Panorama of the European Films - Main Selection (mention documentary, drama)
IDFA - Masters
Denver Film Festival - Maysles Brothers Award for Best Documentary section
GOA International Film Festival
Luxembourg City Film Festival - Grand Prize
Göteborg Film Festival - Visionaries
Bogota International Film Festival - Official Selection
New Horizons - Visual Front
Festival Internacional de Cine UNAM
CPH:DOX - Artists and Auteurs Section
Vilnius International Film Festival - Brave Filmmaking
Vision du Réel (Nyon) - Latitudes
Beat Film Festival
YURI ANCARANI
Video artist/filmmaker
Yuri Ancarani is an Italian video artist and filmmaker. His works come from a continuous mingling of documentary cinema and contemporary art, and are the result of a research aimed to explore regions which are not very visibile in the daily life, realities in which the artist delves in first person. His works have been shown at national and international museums and exhibitions, such as: Fondazione Sandretto, Re Rebaudengo (Torino, Italy), MAXXI, Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo (Rome, Italy), R. Solomon Guggenheim Museum (New York, USA), Prague Biennal 5 (Prague, Poland), XIV Biennale Internazionale di Scultura (Carrara, Italy), 14 Media Art Biennale Wro (Wroklav, Poland), ZERO...gallery (Milan, Italy), T.I.C.A. Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art (Tirana, Albany). And at several film festivals: 67th and 68th Venice Film Festival (Venice, Italy), IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), 23rd IDFA International Documentary Film Festival (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Hot Docs, Canadian International Documentary Festival (Toronto, Canada), Cinéma du Réel (Centre Pompidou, Paris, France), SXSW- South by Southwest (Houston, Texas), Full Frame Documentary Festival (Dhuram, USA), 4th Ann Arbor Film Festival (Michigan, USA), True/False Film Festival (Columbia, Missouri). He has also won several awards such as: Talent Prize 2012, nomination per «Nonfiction feature filmaking», Cinema Eye Honors (Museum of Moving Image, New York, USA); «Grand Prix in Lab Competition», Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival (Clermont-Ferrand, France); «Honorable Mention», Dokufest (Prizren, Kosovo); «Best documentary», New Horizon I.F.F. (Wroclaw, Poland); «Best Short», L’ alternativa- Barcelona Independent Film Festival (Barcelona, Spain), «Grand Special Jury Prize» Locarno Film Festival.
FILMOGRAPHY
2018, San Vittore
2017, Whipping Zombie
2016, The Challenge
2014, Séance
2013, Ricordi per Moderni (Memories for Moderns)
2012, Da Vinci
2011, Piatta forma Luna (Platform Moon)
2010, Il Capo (The Chief)
PRESS QUOTES
Ancarani is apt to take audiences to places typically thought to be unreachable
A piercing, often lyrical study of a rootless generation marooned in a timeless place
A haunting denouement