Who knows, who knows tomorrow / What will we get our hands on ... the Future of Lucio Dalla who looks at what will happen with fear but also hope gives way today to other darker feelings. The documentary Futura, brought to the Quinzaine in Cannes by Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, Alice Rohrwacher, tells the young Italy of today, young people from all walks of life and latitudes called by the three established filmmakers to tell how they live, what they hope, how they imagine themselves the future. "There is the idea of a world that is about to end - admits Rohrwacher - we are faced with darkness, they bring the light". "This work we have made excites me and makes me cry - confesses Marcello - there is great concern, it seems a paradox to ask about the future of these young people who have been robbed".
Begun before the pandemic and then continued during and after, the documentary shows young people between 15 and 20 years old in all the difficulties of today: "They live in a complicated time, they move in a present that is difficult to grasp and the pandemic has made them even more fragile than the imaginary of what they will be able to experience, build, as if there were rather an imminent end of the world, a concept that is not new but that today with the pandemic seems to find more scientific reasons ", continues Munzi. Not so much fear as "anguish seems to be the prevailing sentiment even without generalizing, the faces of young people who do not know well how they will end, who do not have impulses.
A freer youth, less conditioned than previous generations such as ours, more accustomed - adds Alice Rohrwacher, who prepares her first TV series 'Once Upon a Time' - to communicate with social media, to tell about herself on Instagram, than to reflect, express opinions ".
The three directors, all parents of adolescent children, pooled for a collective work with a very specific idea:" To paint a fresco of today's young people and deliver it to the archives, to history, a we were to remember when the time comes. "
Produced by Avventurosa and Rai Cinema, it will be released in theaters and then on TV.