Sebastiano Riso : 2014
Darker Than Midnight
Davide is not a teenager like any other. There is something in him, in his appearance, which makes him look like a girl. Davide is fourteen when he runs away from home. His intuition, or perhaps fate, leads him to choose Villa Bellini, the largest park in Catania, as a refuge. The park is a world in, and of itself, a world of a marginalised population to which the rest of the city turns a blind eye. There he finds many like him who have escaped from a society that rejected them. When Davide is accepted into this strange extended family he finally feels safe and the past seems to vanish completely. But one day the past catches up to the present and Davide has to face the most difficult choice, this time alone. The director explains: "I'm portraying the things that people don't want to see, the things that are left to one side." It is a film dedicated to all those who live courageously, struggling to assert their identity – non-compliant victims of a society that fears them because of their difference. Sebastiano Riso's directorial debut premiered in competition at Semaine de la Critique du Festival de Cannes 2014.
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