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ATLANTIDE

By Yuri ANCARANI

Documentary - Production 2020

In Venice, beyond gondolas, canals where tourists come and locals go, there is a parallel world where teenagers pimp up their motorboats, customizing them with dazzling LED lights and powerful stereo systems. Two will risk their lives n one such race, chased by police toward the heart of Venice.

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Documentary, Social issues, Experimental
- Countries
- ITALY, FRANCE
- Languages
- ITALIAN
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 85 mn
- Director(s)
- Yuri ANCARANI
- Producer(s)
- Marco ALESSI (DUGONG FILMS), Fiorella MORETTI (LUXBOX)
- Synopsis
- In Venice between gondolas, canals and palaces, tourists pour in as residents head out. Local population has fallen to fewer than 50.000 inhabitants.
  Next to the historical center, there’s a hidden and silent lagoon surrounded by small invisible villages. A parallel world where residents resist, living a unique life, just in front of Venice. It’s here that young guys bump into little boats running at full speed with their bows raising
  up into the sky. They call them “barchini”: small, colourful, fast with souped up engines, driven by Venetian teenagers as if these motorboats were motorbikes. They take care of the boat’s aesthetic and accessories, they make it fancy through Hi-Fi, coloured led and light decorations, they work hard to pimp the engine or the stereo system. The cooler and more equipped with options the boat is, the cooler is the guy.
  And at the end of the day, after the usual party on a deserted island, here they are, challenging each other in dangerous illegal races to win girls’ hearts, without lights to avoid the police, pointing their bows and wildly heading towards the Serenissima.
  Daniele, Luca, Alberto… our main characters, will drive us into their summer made by dreams and nightmares of this new generation running at full speed.