Sunday, 22 October at 21:15

Gigi, a good-natured, contemplative policeman in a small village in northern Italy, spends his workdays making inquiries into minor infractions, checking on residents, listening to his car radio, and flirting with a pretty new colleague. Yet even in this uneventful town, there is a dark undercurrent of melancholy, indicated by a wave of recent suicides on the local train tracks. Facing this unexplainable suicide wave, Gigi starts investigating a strange world, between reality and fantasy, in which a garden is a jungle and where an ever-smiling policeman keeps his heart open to love.

Alsessandro Comodin was born in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, a border town in northeast Italy, in 1982. He discovered the cinema thanks to Pasolini's dialect poetry. After post-graduate literature studies in Bologna, which brought him to Paris, he was admitted into the INSAS in Brussels. His feature SUMMER OF GIACOMO (2011) premiered at Locarno FF. His film HAPPY TIMES WILL COME SOON (2016) was selected for the Semaine de la Critique in Cannes. His latest film THE ADVENTURES OF GIGI THE LAW (2022) received the Special Jury Prize at Locarno FF.

Lead actor Pier Luigi Mecchia in attendance