Movida is a movement, a path, a search for life in a depopulated world. A tree transformed into a human being and forced to move in a desert world, or children and teenagers who try to understand where their future will be. I merged poetry, archival film footage and observation documentary to tell the depopulation of the Italian province, but through the eyes of young people.

Alessandro Padovani (1993, Italia), graduated at National Film School in Italy (Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia) in 2018, in Screenplay. As screenplayer he won Mattador Prize in 2013 with The Celluloid man, attending European project Eastweek – Scriptwriting Workshop for New Talent, and again in the 2018. In 2019 he’s a Premio Solinas and Premio Medusa finalist. From 2018 he’s writing film doc Brotherhood directed by Francesco Montagner: they won the Developing Prices of When East meets West, CSC – SIAE Prize and CZ Developing Fund. Movida is his first documentary as a director.