Tarda estate

A provincial village in Calabria, southern Italy. Three young men in their late twenties living with their parents spend the last weeks of the summer together. “The same unchanging condition of expectation, despair, and the pain of living. This has been Italy, the South, for over a century. With everything on hold, the camera captures, in an almost natural way, this reality composed of infinitely repeated gestures and words, where the only possible solution is the eternal one of emigration. (...) Everything is told with an extreme sensitivity and a rare, very modern, balance between documentary and fiction.” (Luciano Barisone, Vision du Réel, Nyon, 2017)