Experiencing Interruptions?

A breath of water

Mauro is a professional diver who works at great depths below oil platforms, in the middle of the sea. He must live in a small hyperbaric chamber for most of the year. In his spare time, he likes to teach his little friend Milo how to dive. When Milo helps Mauro realizing how tired he is of his life on the platforms, the diver tries to realize his childhood dream: salvaging sunken ships. Over everything looms large the tragic silhouette of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that sank off the coast of Isola del Giglio

  • Claudia Cipriani
    Director
  • Claudia Cipriani
    Writer
  • Niccolo Volpati
    Writer
  • Niccolo Volpati
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    L'ora d'acqua
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 11 minutes 26 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 1, 2018
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    Italian
  • Shooting Format:
    hd
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Visioni dal Mondo Festival
    Milano
    Italy
    September 15, 2018
    Official Premiere
    Best Documentary Award
  • Bellaria Film Festival
    Bellaria
    Italy
    December 29, 2018
    Official Selection
  • Trieste Film Festival
    Trieste
    Italy
    January 20, 2019
    Premio Salani (Salani Prize)
Director Biography - Claudia Cipriani

Claudia Cipriani graduated in Philosophy and got a diploma at the Scuola Civica di Cinema in Milan. She worked as a professional journalist and as a videomaker for various newspapers, magazines and TV broadcasters. She directed several musical videoclips and shorts. Her documentaries, among which “Lasciando la Baia del Re”, “La guerra delle onde”, “L’estate che verrà”, won several prizes (including the nomination for Best Documentary at the David di Donatello) and have been broadcasted by italian and international tv.

Add Director Biography
Director Statement

"I was attracted not only by Mauro's extreme job, but also by his passion for the sea depths. I could not understand how I could represent them, and only when he began to tell Milo about his work and about the legendary sea stories, I realized that their relationship was the right direction, that the child’s point of view was essential. This film was to me a unique opportunity to tell a story about the lives of characters endeavoring to change a situation which stifles them, while at the same time it’s an opportunity to weave a realistic dimension into a dreamlike one"