Michele is a lonely man, poised between desire and censure. His ‘favela’ is both his refuge and his prison, a last salvation and a slow agony. The past haunts him, while with binoculars he spies on ‘humanoids’, as if on a safari in reverse. He observes but does not touch. He scrutinises but does not belong. The ‘favela’ is his purgatory: it keeps him alive, but suffocates him. He dreams of taking a woman there, of interrupting the solitude that shackles him. He looks for love in newspaper ads or in the woods.
Language: Dialect
Subtitles: Italian, English
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Francesco Mattuzzi
Born in Rovereto in 1979, Francesco Mattuzzi is a director and documentary maker. In 2010 he presented FUTURE ARCHEOLOGY, an anaglyph 3D stereoscopic film in the Horizons section at the Venice Biennale. He was selected as a director at Berlinale Talents in 2016 and he is a lecturer in filmmaking at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.
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