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 International Sales: Luxbox

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)

Ancarani is apt to take audiences to places typically thought to be unreachable