Atlas
Switzerland / Belgium / Italy, January 2021
FILM,
Fiction,
88 min.
- directed by
- Niccolò Castelli
- Written by
- Niccolò Castelli, Stefano Pasetto
- Status
- In distribution
- Website
- http://www.niccolocastelli.ch/filmography/atlas
Allegra is a lively young woman with a passion for high mountain climbing. She decides to travel to Morocco to reach the top of the Atlas, but her trip ends abruptly when a man explodes a bomb in a coffee shop and her three friends die in the attack. Unable to overcome the trauma months later she returns to her city, where the encounter with Arad, a young Muslim refugee, forces her to confront her perception of reality, her fears and heal her profound interior wounds.
Appassionata di arrampicata, Allegra è vittima di un attacco terroristico che costa la vita ai suoi amici. Annientata dal senso di colpa e dal desiderio di vendetta si ritira nella sua solitudine. I suoi cari sono impotenti. Così, per tornare a godere della vita Allegra deve intraprendere una lunga lotta contro sé stessa. In questo contesto incontra Arad, un giovane rifugiato del Medio Oriente. Ma la fiducia nel diverso rimane un difficile ostacolo.
credits
- World Premiere
- January 2021
- Original Version
- Italian, couleur, DCP, 88 min.
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-5452-0000-D-0000-0000-Z
- Production
- Imagofilm Lugano, Climax Films, tempesta srl, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera, SRG SSR
- Producer
- Villi Hermann, Michela Pini, Olivier Rausin, Carlo Cresto-Dina
- directed by
- Niccolò Castelli
- Written by
- Niccolò Castelli, Stefano Pasetto
- Cinematography
- Pietro Zuercher
- Location Sound Mix
- Marc Engels, Antoine Vandendriessche
- Sound Design
- Roland Voglaire
- Music
- Karim Baggili
- Production Design
- Georg Bringolf
- Lighting Design
- Andrea de Stoutz
- Costumes
- Sabine Zappitelli
- Make up
- Martine Felber
- Casting
- Corinna Glaus, Roberta Corrirossi
Cast
Matilda De Angelis as Allegra
Helmi Dridi as Arad
Nicola Perot as Benni
Irene Casagrande as Giulia
Angelo Bison as Fulvio
Anna Manuelli as Sonia
Neri Marcorè as Ludovico
Kevin Blaser as Sandro
Anna Ferruzzo as Margherita
Doro Müggler as Greta
Giacomo Bastianelli as Bisto
World Sales / World Rights
- World Sales
- Vision Distribution
Worldwide Distribution
- Austria
- Arsenal Filmverleih GmbH Distribution
- Germany
-
Arsenal Filmverleih GmbH
Distribution
Release date: 27.10.2022 - Italy
- SKY Italia S.r.l. TV Rights
- Italy
-
Vision Distribution
Distribution
Release date: 08.07.2021 - North Macedonia
-
Uzengija DOOEL
Distribution
Release date: 05.05.2023 - Switzerland
-
Outside The Box Sarl
Distribution
Release date: 13.10.2021
Awards
(a selection)
-
Genève, Swiss Film Award,
Swiss Film Award, Best Cinematography
2021
(Nomination)
Pietro Zuercher - Genève, Swiss Film Award, Swiss Film Award, Best Fiction Film 2021 (Nomination)
Festivals
(a selection)
-
Montevideo, 40° Festival Cinematográfico internacional del Uruguay
13.04.2022 - 24.04.2022 -
Sedona, 28th Sedona International Film Festival
18.02.2022 - 27.02.2022 -
Les Arcs, 13e Les Arcs Film Festival
11.12.2021 - 18.12.2021 -
Santiago de Compostela, Cineuropa 35
08.11.2021 - 24.11.2021 -
Hof, 55. Internationale Filmtage Hof
26.10.2021 - 31.10.2021 -
Sao Paulo, 45a Mostra Internacional del Cinema de Sao Paulo (hybrid edition)
21.10.2021 - 03.11.2021 -
Locarno, 74° Locarno Film Festival
04.08.2021 - 14.08.2021 -
Solothurn, 56. Solothurner Filmtage
20.01.2021 - 27.01.2021