Selfie
Italian Cinema • Documentary
Alessandro and Pietro are 16 years-old and live in Naples, district of Traiano where, in the summer of 2014, Davide Bifolco, also 16, was shot by a policeman who mistook him for a fugitive. They are inseparable friends, Alessandro works as a waiter in a bar, Pietro dreams to become a hairdresser. Alessandro and Pietro accept the director’s proposal to shoot themselves with an iPhone, commenting live on their own daily experiences, their close friendship, their neighbourhood – now empty, in the middle of summer – and the tragedy that ended Davide’s life.
DIRECTED BY AGOSTINO FERRENTE
FRANCE, ITALY | 2019 | NEAPOLITAN & ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
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