Atlas

by Niccolò Castelli

The long and painful struggle of Allegra, a survivor of a dramatic event that cost the lives of three of her friends, to overcome fear.

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DATA SHEET

Orginal title:

Atlas

Year:

2021

Length (min.):

88'

Original language:

Italiano

Subtitles:

English, Deutsch, Français, Spanish, Portuguese

International Title:

Atlas

Production:

Imagofilm Lugano

Co-Producers:

Climax Films Bruxelles (B), tempesta Roma (I), RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera (CH)

Worlds sales:

Vision Distribution

Distributors:

Outside The Box (CH), Vision Distribution (IT), Arsenal Filmverleih (DE and AUT), Uzengjja (MKD)

With the support of:

Ufficio Federale della cultura UFC, Svizzera
Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali e per il turismo - DGC Italia
Succès Cinema
Succès Passage Antenne
Fondo Per la cultura Suissimage
Promozione degli investimenti cinematografici in Svizzera PICS
Filmplus della Svizzera italiana
Wallimage (La Wallonie)
Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge
Repubblica e Cantone Ticino DECS
Trentino Film Commission
Ticino Film Commission

Prizes
(selection):

(selection)
2022 - Manchester Film Festival: Best International Feature
2022 - Jaipur International Film Festival: Best sound and best Actress in a leading role
2021 - Coronado Island Film Festival: Best international feature
2021 - Russia-Italia Film Festival (RIFF): Second prize
2021 - Festival du Film Aventiclap:
Prix du Jury des Jeunes
2021 - Festival du Film Italien de Villerupt: Prix Amilcar du Jury Jeunes
2021 - Trailers Film Festival: Best Italian trailer and Best poster
2021 - Taormina Film Fest: Best Actress in a Leading Role Award
2021 - Swiss Film Prize 2021: nomination best film and best cinematography

Festivals
(selection):

(selection)
2022 - Manchester Film Festival
2022 - Jaipur International Film Festival
2022 - Santa Barbara International Film Festival
2021 - Anchorage International Film Festival
2021 - Festival de Cinema Europeen de Les Arcs
2021 - Festival International du Cinema d'Auteur de Rabat
2021 - Hof Internationale Filmtage
2021 - Mostra Internacional de Cinema de Sao Paulo
2021 - 74. Locarno Film Festival, Panorama Suisse
2021 - 67. Taormina Film Festival
2021 - 56. Solothurn Film Festival, opening film

Official website:

Atlas - Imagofilm

Restoration / digitization:

CONTACT

Imagofilm Lugano
https://www.imagofilm.ch

SYNOPSIS

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 ab- ruptly 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, young refugee from the Middle East, forces her to confront her perception of reality, her fears and heal her profound interior wounds.

LOCATION

Lugano and surroundings

Valle Leventina

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CAST & CREW

Direction:

Niccolò Castelli

Film script:

Niccolò Castelli, Stefano Pasetto

Cast:

Matilda De Angelis, Helmi Dridi, Irene Casagrande, Neri Marcoré, Angelo Bison, Nicola Perot, Anna Ferruzzo, Kevin Blaser, Anna Manuelli, Doro Müggler.

Photography:

Pietro Zürcher

Scenography:

Georg Bringolf

Costumes:

Sabine Zappitelli

Makeup:

Martine Felber

Sound:

Marc Engels, Antoine Vandendriessche

Editing:

Esmeralda Calabria

Sound editing:

Rolang Voglaire, Franco Piscopo

Music:

Karim Baggili

Producers:

Villi Hermann, Michela Pini, Caroline Houben, Olivier Rausin, Carlo Cresto-Dina, Alessandro Marcionni

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HIGHLIGHTS

In Atlas, the city, the forest and the rock walls are characters that emotionally illustrate the protagonist's states of mind. I was looking for a universe far from the stereotypical "Switzerland", at the center of Europe, a living place, far from the postcard images we are used to seeing. We found it in Lugano and its suburbs.

Niccolò Castelli

Director

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