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.
- David di Donatello Awards – Best Documentary
- Ljubljana International Film Festival – Official Competition
- Denver Film Festival – International Feature – Maysles Brothers Award for Best Documentary section
- Göteborg Film Festival – Visionaries
- CPH:DOX – Artists and Auteurs Section
- 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 São Paulo – New Directors Competition
- Brisbane International Film Festival
- Thessaloniki International Film Festival – Film Forward Competition
- Seville European Film Festival – The New Wave Competition Non Fiction
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.
- Atlantide – 2021 – Documentary
- San Vittore – 2018 – Short film
- Whipping Zombie – 2017 – Short film
- The Challenge – 2016 – Documentary
- Séance – 2014 – Short film
- Ricordi per Moderni – 2013 – Short film
- Da Vinci – 2012 – Short film
- Il Capo – 2010 – Short film
Daniele Barison
Maila Dabalà
Bianka Berenyi
Screenwriter: Yuri Ancarani
DOP: Yuri Ancarani
Editor: Yuri Ancarani
Sound Design: Mirco Menacci
Production: Dugong Films, Rai Cinema
Coproduction: Luxbox
World Sales: Luxbox
