Minnesota Premiere
Alessandro and Pietro, 16 years-old friends, live in Traiano. They are inseparable. Alessandro works as a waiter in a bar and Pietro dreams to become a hairdresser.
It was in this very same district in the summer of 2014 that Davide Bifolco, also 16, was shot by a policeman. He mistook him for a fugitive. Alessandro and Pietro accept the director’s proposal to capture their daily lives in their gang-ravaged neighborhood using smartphone cameras in “selfie” mode.
This film documents the improbable persistence of hope in the context of precarity, conflicting moralities and the complexity of teenage years.
Director Agostino Ferrente (1971 in Cerignola / Italy) is a director, producer and artistic director. Before becoming involved in cinema, he was an editorial coordinator for magazines and news programs addressed to communities of Italians living abroad. After his studies at DAMS (Drama, Art & Music Studies) in Bologna, he produced and directed a series of shorts and documentaries and co-founded, in 2001, the group "Apollo 11" which saved the historical Apollo cinema theatre in Rome from becoming a bingo hall. By promoting film, music and writing, the group turned it into one of the liveliest cultural centers in Italy’s capital city, the first with an ongoing program dedicated to cinema of the real. He is currently working on his first non-documentary feature film.
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