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TURIN 2016

Wind: Mina’s summer

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- A teenager’s summer is portrayed in the new film by Tamara Drakulic, in competition at the 34th edition of the Turin Film Festival

Wind: Mina’s summer

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, the third piece by Tamara Drakulic, based on the story Kites by Ana Rodić and produced by Monkey Production and Cinnamon Production, is the story of Mina, a 16-year-old girl who doesn’t want to hear about spending the summer with her father. After failing her philosophy exam, she wishes she were elsewhere, in a hotel like her school friends and not bored amongst the reeds of the Bojana river in Montenegro. 

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If you had to insert the film into any kind of hypothetical narrative vein, it would be that of films that tell the story of two seasons, summer and adolescence, and would be led by the likes of Éric Rohmer (Pauline at the Beach), Takeshi Kitano (Kikujiro) and Koji Fukada (the recent Hotori no Sasuko). A season of first loves, in which youngsters change and clash with adults and the chaos of the world. 

Like Rohmer often does, Drakulic shot the film with a steady camera, avoiding falling into the trap of telling a didactic story and cutting down the sprawling spaces in which Mina and the protagonists move around in search of the wind, the wind which animates the water and is so dear to the surfers, the wind which moves things. Mina, too, is caught up in the tourbillon de la vie, against her will and rather gently, despite the heaviness of adolescence, in a poetic film studded with long shots that capture the landscape and preserve it from the devastation of human activity, illuminating it with the purity of a teenager who moves around in this remote patch of Montenegro, threatened by economic interests increasingly in conflict with the rhythms of nature.

Together with films like Struggle for Life [+see also:
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by Antonin Peretjako and Noi siamo la marea by Sebastian Hilger, Wind condemns the repercussions of man’s attempt the alter the elements, hoping for their respect, an appeal that seems to fit in well with the other films at this year’s 34th edition of the Turin Film Festival.

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(Translated from Italian)

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