DRUNKEN NOODLES
a film by Lucio Castro
USA – Argentina, 2025, 81’
NATIONAL PREMIERE
v.o. Italian subtitles
Drunken Noodles, which premiered in the ACID section of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, marks the return of Argentine director Lucio Castro to the big screen. With an intimate yet bold and unapologetically queer film, Castro chooses not to follow a conventional plot. Instead, he invites the audience to drift through the story as one would through a dream: freely connected, emotionally charged, and steeped in desire.
The protagonist moves between encounters with lovers from past and present, moments of solitude, and sensory landscapes that seem to mirror the inner turmoil of a man who both longs for and flees intimacy. Once again, Castro plays with time, space and desire in a narrative that gently disorients while emotionally grounding the viewer.
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Tickets
Full price: €7.50
Reduced price for Under 30s, Over 65s, Culture Card holders, Amici Di Cineteca: €5
Reduced price for Unibo, Ababo, Under 20s: €3
3-show pass: €12
5-show pass: €20
Tickets can be purchased:
1) Online: on TicketSms.it
2) In person: from October 30th to November 8th at the Festival Center (DAS – Dispositivo Arti Sperimentali, via del Porto 11/2).
Passes can be purchased:
1) In person: from October 30th to November 8th at the Festival Center (DAS – Dispositivo Arti Sperimentali, via del Porto 11/2)
2) By pre-ordering them by email at biglietteria@genderbender.it and then picking them up in person at the Festival Center.
The TICKET OFFICE at the Festival Center is every day from October 30th to November 8th from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.; on October 30th from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.; on November 2nd from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.
*It is NOT possible to purchase tickets in person at the event venues.
For further information: biglietteria@genderbender.it
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Born in Buenos Aires, Lucio Castro earned a BFA from the Center for Film Experimentation in Buenos Aires before moving to New York to study at The New School. His debut feature, End of the Century (Fin de siglo), premiered at New Directors/New Films at MoMA in 2019 and later screened at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, where it won the Best Film Award in the National Competition. His second feature, After This Death, based on an original script he wrote, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2025. He also teaches as an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Film Program at NYU Tisch.
If you happen to be in Milan, Camera Doppia is hosting the first exhibition in Italy by artist Sal Salandra, who inspired Castro’s film.
Theater of Delight
Sal Salandra with Fabio Zambernardi
Theater of Delight is the first solo exhibition in Italy by Sal Salandra, a central figure in Lucio Castro’s film Drunken Noodles.
The exhibition features ten “thread paintings” and a series of drawings that bring together some of the most striking visual motifs from Salandra’s queer imagination and repertoire. The exhibition design is conceived in collaboration with Fabio Zambernardi, longtime designer at Prada and Miu Miu, who created a theatrical environment inspired by the artist’s biography, particularly the years when Salandra ran a hair salon in New York.
The exhibition is open by appointment until November 30, 2025. Book your visit via Instagram DM @cameradoppia.cc or email info@cameradoppia.cc.
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