22.02.23
Events
Selfie (2019) / Director: Agostino Ferrente / Length: 78 min. / Language: Italian / Subtitles: English, Albanian / Entrance: FREE
How can you make a film about life in a poor neighbourhood of Naples as a foreigner? And perhaps even more difficult, how do you become part of the lives of young Italians as an adult filmmaker? Director Agostino Ferrente came up with an idea as simple as it is brilliant: he gave teenagers in the Neapolitan neighbourhood of Traiano a phone to film their lives in any way they liked.
The result is a beautifully intimate film in which best friends Alessandro and Pietro constantly keep their cameras in selfie mode and thus take on the role of director in a film about their lives. An important role is played by the ubiquitous presence of the mafia and the death of their neighbourhood friend Davide, who was mistakenly shot by the police. But the two young men are also keen to show us that their lives are not entirely dominated by crime and violence.
This film is shown in collaboration between Kino ARMATA and DokuFest.