ATLANTIDE

By Yuri ANCARANI

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Documentary - Completed 2021

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.

Festivals
& Awards

Venice - Biennale 2021
ORIZZONTI
Warsaw International Film Festival 2021
Discoveries
Viennale 2021
Main Program
Mostra de Sao Paolo 2021
New Directors Competition
Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2021
Film Forward Competition
Seville European Film Festival 2021
The New Wave Competition Non Fiction
Denver Film Festival 2021
Maysles Brothers Award for Best Documentary section
Luxembourg City Film Festival 2021
Grand Prize
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • ITALY, FRANCE, USA, QATAR
    • Languages
    • ITALIAN
    • Duration
    • 100 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Yuri ANCARANI
    • Writer(s)
    • Yuri ANCARANI
    • Producer(s)
    • Marco ALESSI (DUGONG), Marta TAGLIAVIA (DUGONG)
    • Synopsis
    • Daniele is a young man from Sant’Erasmo, an island on the edges of the Venice Lagoon. He lives on his wits, isolated even from his peer group who are busy exploring an existence of pleasure-seeking expressed in the cult of the barchino (motorboat). This obsession focusses on the building of ever more powerful engines to transform the little lagoon launches into dangerously fast racing boats.
      Daniele too dreams of a record-breaking barchino, one that will take him to the top of the leader board, but everything he does to further his dream and win respect from the others turns out to be tragically counterproductive. The decline that erodes the relationships, environment and habits of a rootless generation is observed from the timeless perspective of the Venetian landscape and its island outskirts: the point of no return is a foolish, vestigial tale of male initiation. Violent and destined to fail, it explodes dragging the ghost city along on a psychedelic shipwreck.