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There are shipwrecks even here

Asso, with Dino and Poet are, as always, in a inn, playing with cards and drinking wine with the owner. It seems a day as always when Nodàr, the local notary, comes into the inn with terrible news: some refugees are taking shelter in their little town, in the North East of Italy. In the meanwhile another unexpected news is coming. A charming girl enters into the inn looking for some bottles of water. The situation take a turn for the worst when they discover that she’s a coworker of Marco, the social worker that create, in their little town, the new reception centre for the refugees.

  • Davor Marinković
    Director
    Ritratto, Get off of my clouds, Post fata resurgo
  • Leonardo Bortoli
    Writer
  • Michele J. A. Stefani
    Writer
  • Davor Marinković
    Writer
  • Leonardo Bortoli
    Producer
  • Toni Andretta
    Key Cast
  • Matteo Zandonà
    Key Cast
  • Carlotta Schneck
    Key Cast
  • Rémy Ntaco
    Key Cast
  • Gianni Cattin
    Key Cast
  • Alberto Borsetto
    Key Cast
  • Alessandro Colombo
    Key Cast
  • Lorenzo Zampirollo
    Key Cast
  • Leonardo Professione
    Subtitles
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Zingari d'acqua
  • Project Type:
    Short, Other
  • Genres:
    Drama, Comedy
  • Runtime:
    37 minutes 37 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 12, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    3,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    Italian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2,35:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Refugee Film Festival 2018
    Berlin
    Germany
    Official Selection
  • MEDFF - Mediterranean Film Festival 2018
    Siracusa
    Italy
    Finalist
  • 74ma Mostra del Cinema di Venezia
    Venezia
    Italy
    September 5, 2017
    Screening at Veneto Pavillion
  • Babel Film Festival 2017
    Roma
    Italy
    Diari di Cineclub; FEDIC
  • Cosmopolis Film Award
    Roma
    Italy
  • Festival Acque d'arte
    Battaglia Terme, Padova
    Italy
  • Rome Indipendent Prisma Award
    Roma
    Italy
    Official Selection - April 2018
  • Rome Elephants Film Award
    Roma
    Italy
    Official Selection - March 2018
Director Biography - Davor Marinković

Davor Marinkovic was born in Serbia and grew up in Vicenza, Italy. He graduated from University of Padua with a dissertation on Steve McQueen and Sean Bobbitt. He directed four short films: Post Fata Resurgo (2012), Get off of my cloud (2013), Portrait (2015), There are shipwrecks even here (2017), Reznica (2022).

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Director Statement

We wanted to address the issue of immigration and its reception from an unusual point of view: that of those people who witness the arrival of refugees and don’t understand the reasons behind such phenomenon and why they should take any part in it. As a result, they seek shelter in fear when they would find more comfort in memory. This is what our protagonists do: they remember with nostalgia the times gone by, the link between their land, the water and the waterways, that have always brought goods and people and always will. The director's attempt was to bring the viewer closer to those memories and to those faces by time, to drink wine and play cards with them.
Enclosing almost all the action on a mythical stage like that of the bacaro, the classic venetian inn, also a claustrophilic function of isolation, which is typical of the people of north-eastern Italy,: an isolation of the past from the present, of "us" from "them". In this way, without realizing it, the jailers become prisoners, and the memory almost risks becoming a poison in their wine. If they came out they would find that their memory still lives in the wrecks of the river Sile, it is tangible, and is populated by new people who deserve to be accompanied by these memories.