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Chlorine

Cloro
Australian Premiere

CAST

  • Sara Serraiocco
  • Piera Degli Esposti
  • Giorgio Colangeli
  • Ivan Franek
  • Pina Bellano
  • Chiara Romano
  • Andrea Vergoni
Italy | 2015 | 98 mins
Drama
An eerie, almost unreal beauty.
The Hollywood Reporter
DIRECTOR Lamberto Sanfelice

After writing the short film Il fischietto (2012), first-time Italian director Lamberto Sanfelice has broken out to critical praise with Chlorine, which has earned him nominations at the most prestigious international film festivals around the world, including Berlin and Sundance Film Festivals. 

Director Lamberto Sanfelice presents a coming-of-age tale with a social-realist twist in this assured debut feature.

17 year old Jenny (Sara Serraiocco, Salvo, LIFF13) is burdened with responsibility as she must leave behind her life and her beloved synchronised swimming team when she is forced to relocate to the remote Abruzzo Mountains after tragedy strikes. The abrupt change forces her to misbehave and her obsession with synchronised swimming deepens, while her isolation embitters. She wants nothing more than to return to what she knows, and will do anything to make this happen. Determined, she rehearses at night in the hotel pool where she works. As the family situation worsens, she must ultimately choose to be selfish or selfless, but perhaps it is not that simple.

Sanfelice depicts Jenny’s turmoil with beautiful underwater cinematography, using choreographed and orderly synchronised swimming to measure her increasingly overwhelming disorder.

*NOT SCREENING IN HOBART OR BYRON

  • Nominated
    • Best Film (Generation 14plus) - Berlin International Film Festival 2015
    • Best New Director - David di Donatello Awards 2015
    • Grand Jury Prize – World Cinema - Sundance Film Festival 2015
All non-English films screen with English subtitles.

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