For the Off Screen showcase, Andrea Castoldi will present Vista mare to the public.

Shot in fifteen days, between Piacenza, Turin and Milan, Vista mare recounts reality in a disenchanted manner, starting from the current Italian economic situation. “It is a closed-circle film – explains the director – it ends where it begins, the film theme, emigration, moves throughout the middle of it. Vista mare does not wish to recount the drama from inside its protagonists’ lives, but simply get up close enough to get a whiff of them, trying to imagine what we might be experiencing in first person in a close or distant future”. The film will be screened on Monday 8 January 2018, at 8.30 p.m. on Screen Three at the Cinema Massimo. Introduced by director Andrea Castoldi. Admission 6.00/4.00 euro.

Andrea Castoldi

Vista mare (Sea view)

(Italy 2017, 85’, DCP, col.)

Italy 2020. The Puglia region has become a militarised frontier, a borderline not to be overtaken, and collapsing because of the thousands of Italians who have invaded it in a few months. The Italian State is adrift by now. Popular revolts and protests follow each other. Stilitano, just out of jail, would like to become a pizza-maker, but ends up by getting into a waiting-list for going to much-besought Albania, a prosperous land for work and hope.