41° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
SPAZIO ITALIA/OUT OF COMPETITION
COUPON - IL FILM DELLA FELICITA'
by Agostino Ferrente
Country: Italy
Year: 2023
Duration: 18'
Andrea is a dazed, lonely, misfit and romantic man who lives his life as if it were a black and white movie… In the heat of August, he rides his bike in a semi-deserted Rome, populated by a few surviving students, elderly people and foreigners who cannot afford holidays. Andrea intends to reach a supermarket where he can buy cans of tuna with which accumulate points that will allow him to win the mysterious “Happiness Coupon.” Among magical encounters, vicissitudes and bizarre events, achieving happiness is always a dream; and chasing it can turn out to be a nightmare...
Biography
film director
Agostino Ferrente
(Cerignola, 1971) he founded the Pirata Produzioni Cinematografiche production company and belongs to the Apollo 11 collective which transformed a historic cinema in Rome into a cultural centre. The Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio, which was founded there, became the subject of one of his documentaries. He also created the Doc/it Award for documentaries at the Venice International Film Festival where the film Le cose belle, which he co-directed, and which narrates ten years in the life of four young Neopolitans, premiered in 2013. In 2019 he presente in Berlinale’s section Panorama his most notable film, Selfie.
FILMOGRAFIA
Poco più della metà di zero (doc, cm, 1993), Opinioni di un pirla (doc, cm, 1994), Il film di Mario (doc, cm, 1994), Intervista a mia madre (doc, cm, 2000), Scusi dov'è il documentario? (coll., doc, 2004), L'orchestra di piazza Vittorio (doc, 2006), Le cose belle (doc, 2013), Selfie (2019), Coupon – Il film della felicità (cm, 2023).
