ATLAS
synopsis
Allegra is a lively young woman with a passion for high mountain climbing. She decides to travel to Morocco to reach the top of the Atlas, but her trip ends abruptly when a man explodes a bomb in a coffee shop and her three friends die in the attack. Unable to overcome the trauma months later she returns to her city, where the encounter with Arad, a young Muslim refugee, forces her to confront her perception of reality, her fears and heal her profound interior wounds.
| international title: | Atlas |
| original title: | Atlas |
| country: | Switzerland, Belgium, Italy |
| sales agent: | Vision Distribution |
| year: | 2021 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Niccolò Castelli |
| film run: | 90' |
| release date: | IT 8/07/2021 |
| screenplay: | Niccolò Castelli, Stefano Pasetto |
| cast: | Matilda De Angelis, Helmi Dridi, Nicola Perot, Irene Casagrande, Angelo Bison, Anna Manuelli, Neri Marcorè, Kevin Blaser, Anna Ferruzzo, Doro Müggler, Giacomo Bastianelli |
| cinematography by: | Pietro Zuercher |
| film editing: | Esmeralda Calabria |
| art director: | Georg Bringolf |
| costumes designer: | Sabine Zappitelli |
| producer: | Villi Hermann, Michela Pini |
| co-producer: | Carlo Cresto-Dina, Caroline Houben, Alessandro Marcionni, Olivier Rausin |
| production: | Imagofilm SA Lugano, Climax Films, Tempesta, RSI - Radiotelevisione Svizzera di Lingua Italiana, SRG SSR |
| distributor: | Vision Distribution, Outside The Box |

























