Alessandro Rak
Inaugural Event
Film Screening
Yaya e Lennie. The Walking Liberty
(2021) - 98’
Wednesday, 24th November
h 21:00
Palladium Theatre (Piazza Bartolomeo Romano, 8)
Plot
Following a mysterious upheaval, the world as we know it today is over. Nature has forcefully taken over the planet and now the jungle covers the whole Earth. From the rubble of the world that once was, a new society is trying to rise again. This is "The Institution", whose followers try to restore the pre-established order by imposing on the free jungle people their concept of law. But there are those who strongly oppose their process of "civilization": the dissidents are preparing their revolution!
This is the story of two free spirits who want to find their place in the world. Yaya, a rough-tempered girl with an indomitable spirit and Lennie, a tall young man more than two meters and suffering from mental illness.
United by a deep bond, they take care of each other trying not to loose the only wealth that is really left to them: their freedom.
Alessandro Rak - director, designer, animator
He graduates in Animation at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, after winning with his works Again and Looking Death Window the Grand Jury Prize of the Castelli Animati Festival, the Cylect International Price and the First Prize at the Festival of Film School in Città del Mexico.
Since 2001 he has been making art exhibitions, publishing comics and illustrated books, realizing animated short films (Và, Teste al muro), musical video clips and artwork for musicians. In 2014 he directed his first feature film The Art of Happiness. The film opened the 28th Critics' Week of the 70th Venice International Film Festival as a Special Event.
Gatta Cenerentola (2017), his second feature film, won two David di Donatello awards for Best Producer and Best Visual Effects. The work was awarded at the 74th Venice International Film Festival and winning several other prizes at national and European level.
Rak also created, in 2014, the opening theme of Cartoons on the Bay; in 2015 the opening of the 30th International Critics' Week of the Venice International Film Festival and in 2016 the illustrations for Roberto Saviano's La Paranza dei Bambini.
In 2021 he presented his third feature film Yaya e Lennie - The Walking Liberty , as a world premiere at the 74th edition of the Locarno Film Festival.