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DOCUMENTARY In a collective film, a new generation of Italian directors look at the future of their country. On a journey through Italy, Alice Rohrwacher, Pietro Marcello and Francesco Munzi talk to a generation trying to make its way in a life marked by worries about unemployment, climate change and the Corona pandemic. The teenagers in Sicily, Rome and Milan have a clear-eyed view of their situation and see their own position in Italy’s social and political system critically.

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ALICE ROHRWACHER (*1981) is one of Italy’s best-known directors. Her films The Wonders (2014) and Happy as Lazzaro (2018) ran in competition at Cannes. The work of PIETRO MARCELLO (*1976) covers both features and documentaries and is characterized by the innovative use of archive material. His film Martin Eden was shown at FILMFEST HAMBURG in 2019. FRANCESCO MUNZI (*1969) won several prizes in Venice with his debut film Black Souls. Futura had its world premiere at Cannes.

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