Duino
A movie by Juan Pablo di Pace
Italy, USA, Argentina, 2023, 108’
original version (spanish/english) with italian subtitles
Matias is an Argentine teenager struggling with the sweet torment of first teenage love, Alexander a Swedish boy he met at the United World College in Duino. The film follows the two young people as they discover their intense friendship, characterized by tenderness and charm, doubts and questions of identity. When Alexander is suddenly expelled, it leaves Matias struggling with unspoken feelings. Twenty-five years later, Matias, who has since become a filmmaker, decides to confront his past and recount his first love in a film. This will lead him to seek out Alexander and meet with him to find a worthy closure to their story.
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Tickets
Full price: 8€
Under30, Over65, Card Cultura: 5€
Reduced price: Unibo e Ababo: 3€
Tickets can be bought:
1) Online: on TicketSMS.it starting from october 2024.
2) At Gender Bender’s Festival Center: from 31 October to 11 November from 3.00pm to 9.00pm only and exclusively at the Gender Bender’s Festival Centre, set up at DAS – Dispositivo arti sperimentali in via del Porto 11/b.
*There will NOT be a ticket office at the event locations.
For more info: biglietteria@genderbender.it
Accessibility
Juan Pablo Di Pace (Buenos Aires, 1979) began his career in the United Kingdom, acting in several musicals and appearing in Survival Island (by Stewart Raffill, 2005), Mamma Mia! (by Phyllida Lloyd, 2008) and The Mattachine Family (by Andy Vallentine, 2023), among others. In 2014 he debuted with the character of Nicolas Treviño in the drama series “Dallas.” From 2016 to 2020 he was Fernando in “Mama’s Friends.” Duino (2024) is his first feature film as director.
Andrés Pepe Estrada is a Spanish filmmaker, composer, and editor living in Buenos Aires. He studied cinema at the University of Cinema in Buenos Aires and at Cinecittà in Rome. Andres edited Santiago Mitre’s Argentina 1985 (2022). Since 2002, he has worked extensively as an editor on many top Latin American films such as White Elephant (2012), The Summit (2017), Some Girls (2013), Alanis (2017), and Die Monster Die (2018).
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