LA PRIMA FESTA (Italia, 2026, 60’) di Pietro Fuccio
With the presence of the director
The film tells the story of “La Prima Festa Dell’Amore,” a concert in which usual organisational challenges became insurmountable obstacles during the pandemic: first for practical and common-sense reasons, and then because of the sheer number of rules and restrictions that seemed increasingly detached from reality.
Pietro Fuccio is making his directorial debut in film after organising concerts for twenty-five years and directing music videos, live sessions, and online formats.
In Rome, there were kids who would steal sparks from American Hardcore to create a clandestine tradition made of sweat, worn tapes, and punk saints. In Florence, the nights of the 1980’s would become shimmering experiences: Pelù screamed in the alleys, Bruno Casini opened portals, and the town danced like a sleepless creature covered in sequins and nicotine. Then came the silence of the pandemic. Cosmo set up a big party with no social distancing and brought the stars inside a marquee. Meanwhile, The Longest Shadow lay across landscapes like a record dreamed by a plotless cinema: visual poetry, presage, songs that exist even before they are sung. Zagor would ride across all this on a horse. The Camillas would laugh in people’s faces, and the Late – à la Pirandello – Wall of Sound became a pirate ship: “C’mon, let’s go!” But where? Roads to Nowhere does not know. All in all, it doesn’t care to find out!
Anthony Ettorre and Paola Cassano
ALL SCREENINGS ARE FREE
