31° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
TORINOFILMLAB

YURI ESPOSITO

YURI ESPOSITO
by Alessio Fava
Country: Italy
Year: 2013
Duration: 73'


Because of a rare disease, Yuri Esposito is forced to move slower than everybody else. He is happy and satisfied despite this disability, also thanks to his loving wife Lucia and to his passion for static apnea, which he excels at. When he discovers his wife is pregnant, his world crashes down on him: he is afraid of not being unable to be a good father because of his syndrome. Because of it, he decides to try an experimental cure despite Lucia’s protests, just to be like everyone else. But happiness is more than a matter of speed.

Biography

film director

Alessio Fava

Alessio Fava (Turin, Italy, 1976) studied at the Communication Institute, at the International Art and Media Academy in Turin, and at the Genoa Art and Film School. He partipated to the Torino Film Festival with the first short film he made, Un giorno da re (2004). After the short Noage Film Noir (2006), he has mostly been directing commercials and television programs, working with Sky. In 2012 he directed the short film Project Genesis, and Yuri Esposito, his first full-length feature, which was selected by the Biennale College - Cinema of the Venice International Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

Un giorno da re (cm, 2004), Noage film noir (cm, 2006), Chinese Training (cm, 2008), Fast Microwave (cm, 2008), Bad School (cm, 2008), The Last Match (cm, 2009), Prestissimo con moto (cm, 2009), Project Genesis (cm, 2012), Yuri Esposito (2013).

Declaration

film director

“I’ve always imagined Yuri’s world as a perfect world, a world which is ‘fair’ and elegant. The images of the film were born out of this reflection. I’ve made an effort, through them, of showing the fascination of his movements and his life, so beautiful but so different from ours. It is an aesthetics which changes together with his transformation. Elegance turns into a point of view which is more ‘blurred,’ more fragmented, in the same way his life takes a turn.”

Cast

& Credits

REGIA
Alessio Fava
SOGGETTO, SCENEGGIATURA
Leonardo Staglianò
FOTOGRAFIA
Alessandro Dominici
MONTAGGIO
Massimo Magnetti
SCENOGRAFIA
Giorgio Barullo
COSTUMI
Cristina Audisio
MUSICA
Alessandro Cortini, Matteo Milani, Morning Telefilm
SUONO
Matteo Milani
INTERPRETI
Matteo Lanfranchi, Beatrice Cevolani, Claudio Morganti, Massimiliano Speziani, Michele di Mauro, Alessia Olivetti, Tommaso Banfi, Giulio Caterino, Marco Tocco, Camilla Maya Vindigni
PRODUTTORE
Max Chicco
PRODUZIONE
Meibi
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