Futura, the Italy of tomorrow for today's young people - Lifestyle

The young Italy of today: young people from all walks of life and latitudes talking about the future or about them, how they imagine they will live in a few years, what do they hope for.

    Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, Alice Rohrwacher are the authors of the collective film in which young people can identify themselves. Their hopes very often give way to other darker feelings, conditioned by the historical moment of the pandemic. It is the choral fresco Futura. "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 of it". 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,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 live, 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 without generalizing, the faces of young people who do not know well how they will end, who have no impetus.Munzi continues. 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 up, who have no impetus.Munzi continues. 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 up, who have no impetus.

    A more free youth, less conditioned than previous generations as ours may be, more accustomed - adds Alice Rohrwacher, working on her first TV series 'Once Upon a Time' - to communicate itself with social media, to tell about oneself on Instagram, than to reflect, express opinions ".

The idea of ​​the three directors, all parents of adolescent children, was to make "a fresco of today's young people and deliver it to the archives, to history, a way we were to remember when the time comes", as happened for example at the work of Pasolini Comizi love. The cinematographic reference is to the fantastic investigations in post-war Italy by Soldati, Rossellini, Comencini, Pasolini. "Futura is a film at the service of young people. Usually as directors we talk about our personal visions, this time we teamed up for a horizontal collective film, having our visions as filmmakers and parents but without theses, without expecting answers, without being sociologists of our children and young people like them, but - explains Pietro Marcello (Per Lucio, Martin Eden) - by listening to them, putting them at the center.An educational cinema, an archive delivered to the future ".

    But the approach, adds Munzi (The Miracle, Black Souls) "was not paternalistic, we just wanted to understand adolescents better, their voice is never heard, asking them about the future implies asking ourselves how we are leaving it to them" .

    Filmed through Italy, from north to south, without a scientific or sociological criterion, but following suggestions and free associations so as to tell the diversity of the children, the different origins, and to give an idea of ​​the temperature of our country. "In the act of wishing and imagining one's future, where you live, where you were born, counts a lot: this tension gives rise to very different points of view, territorially connoted", admit the authors.

    Presented at Alice nella città after the world premiere at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in Cannes, produced by Avventurosa and Rai Cinema, it will arrive in Italian cinemas for a three-day event, on 25, 26, 27 October, distributed by Luce Cinecittà (ANSA).