Tir
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2014
June 5 - 12, 2014
U.S. Premiere. Q&A with filmmaker Alberto Fasulo on June 7.
A former teacher from Bosnia takes a job driving a tractor trailer (“tir”) through Europe, immersing the viewer in the sounds, the landscape, and the longing for company that goes with life on the road.
U.S. Premiere. Q&A with filmmaker Alberto Fasulo on June 7.
The first Italian film to win the top prize at the Rome Film Festival, Fasulo’s striking fiction debut follows Branko (played by Branko Zavrsan, from the Oscar-winning No Man’s Land), a former teacher from Bosnia who takes a job driving a tractor trailer (“tir”) through Europe. A native of Friuli with a documentary background, Fasulo immerses the viewer in the experience of the trucker on the road—the sounds, the landscape, and the longing for company (Branko’s phone conversations with his wife are particularly poignant). Part of a growing movement of Italian filmmakers exploring hybrid combinations of documentary and fiction, Fasulo uses both professional actors and real truck drivers, and his approach yields both an intimate connection to his characters and an evocative sense of place.
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