Italian Journey: Break Free

Gianluca Maria Tavarelli, the film's director, will be our guest at the screening.

Cenzo worked in a factory. Then after thirty years they closed down the department and he was sent out. Vince is twenty years old, he is Cenzo’s son, and he wants to leave. Elena, his girlfriend, is twenty too but she doesn’t want to leave. Paola, Vince’s mother is fed up with the dull village life. Genny is a waitress in Pescara, a nice seaside place. She too is twenty and wants to see the world. But she suffers panic attacks. Anita, her mother, is a cook. Cenzo, Vince, Genny, Anita, Paola and Elena, during one summer on crowded beaches, bars and discos packed, customers to be served, loves and arguments, trains you catch and trains you miss, struggle despe- rately not to get lost. They struggle to overcome their fears, to free themselves from what suffocates them, they are struggling to live. Because for all of them, living, in the end, is not all that easy.

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The program is supported by the National Cultural Fund of Hungary.

Director: Gianluca Maria Tavarelli

Cast: Elio Germano, Nicole Grimaudo, Anita Zagaria, Luigi Maria Burruano, Rosa Pianeta, Myriam Catania, Sebastiano Nardone