The Special Need

DCP/HD - 2013 - Germany/Italy - 82 min - color - documentary

The Special Need

Original title: The Special Need

A film by Carlo Zoratti

When Carlo was 14 years old, he was sitting in his childhood bedroom with his best friend Alex. They were the complete outsiders in school, wearing long hair and listening to Heavy Metal. Whereas all the other guys started to make out with girls, nothing was happening for the two boys. So they were thinking about how they could meet girls and make their first experiences. All of a sudden Alex had a genius idea: he said they should volunteer in a home for disabled people because most of the people working there were girls which meant many to choose from and basically no competition. And he was right. They met their first girlfriends there with whom they stayed together for 5 years. But they also met Enea there. Even though they split up with their girlfriends, they stayed friends with Enea ever since.

Original language: Italian
Produced by: DETAiLFILM (Henning Kamm) - Videomante (Erica Barbiani)

Festivals:
Trieste Film Festival - Ambulante Mexico Gira de Documentales - International Leipzig Festival For Documentary and Animated Film - ZagrebDox International Documentary Film Festival - Sofia International Film Festival - South by Southwest Festival SXSW - Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival - Docaviv International Film Festival - Sprout Film Festival - DOCS BARCELONA International Documentary Film Festival
Awards:
Audience Award Winner in SXGlobal - SXSW Festival
Best Documentary Award - Trieste Film Festival
Golden Dove - International Leipzig Festival For Documentary and Animated Film
Small Stamp for the best film by a filmmaker below the age of 35 - ZagrebDox International Documentary Film Festival

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