An Italian Youth
Mathieu Volpe | Belgium, Italy, France | 2022 | 82'
Screenings
Fri 24 March H 21:00
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Original title
Une jeunesse italienne
Synopsis
On the eve of his 25th birthday, Sokuro, the son of Burkinabé immigrants living in Italy, follows the family tradition marrying Nassira, a girl from his home village. For him this marriage is the first step towards a future and return to Burkina Faso for good, but for his wife the marriage is a door towards the European Eldorado.
Cast
Abdoul Soukourou Denne, Rassiratou Guienne, Fatoumata Guienne, Nasire Denne
Films Distribution
Replica Films
Production
Replica Films, Supermouche Productions, 5e6
Editing
Mathieu Volpe
Cinematography
Pierre-Edouard Jasmin
Editing
Maël Delorme
Language
Italian, French
Subtitles
English, Italian
Premiere
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Main awards
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Biography
Mathieu Volpe (Rome, Italy, 1990) was raised by his Belgian mother and his Italian father in Bari, in the South of Italy. In 2009 he moved to Belgium in order to study filmmaking. His short documentaries have been presented in several international festivals such as Locarno, Torino, Dok Leipzig and Fipadoc. An Italian Youth, shot between Italy and Burkina Faso, is his first feature-length documentary. In parallel, he is developing Red Gold. his first fiction feature, produced by Les Films du Fleuve and recently presented at the Jerusalem Film Lab, where it won the Emerging Filmmaker Award.
Filmography
2023 - Eldorado, sf
2022 – An Italian Youth, ff
2019 – Our Territory, sf
2014 – Il segreto del serpente, sf