Cartapesta: Carnival of Fano – The Movie (2024)
Italy’s oldest Carnival, memories, footages, a very powerful imagery rooted over the centuries in one city: Fano. A tradition, that of papier-mâché, and its float masters who, generation after generation, have been able to blend creativity, engineering and manual skills to build those traveling stages called floats. A character, named Vulón, encountering a child. He doesn’t know anything about the Carnival of Fano. No one better than a Carnival mask to walk him around through parades, costumes and sweets and to tell him that after all, Carnival is more than a simple celebration: it’s a feeling, a state of mind that warms the heart of a city and of the territory around. And while the carnival week is getting to an end, somebody is up and ready for a new beginning…
Director: Andrea Lodovichetti
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Simone Diotallevi as Vulón |
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Edoardo Davide Pignataro as Ninìn |
| Directing | Andrea Lodovichetti | Director |
| Writing | Luca Caprara | Writer |
| Writing | Andrea Lodovichetti | Writer |
| Production | Andrea Lodovichetti | Producer |
| Production | Francesco Appoggetti | Producer |
| Camera | Giovanni Furlani | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Eugenio Cinti Luciani | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Nicola Nicoletti | Editor |