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Cazarsa della Delizia, November 2011. A trip to the grave of a filmmaker, the discovering of the land of the grandfather, a country where people still speak a local language; is that what makes me an immigrant? The stories of the places mingle with those worn by the sea. But the sea is not a country. "I`m going to an unknown country. But I understand that this country is important. It attracts me like an indispensable thing. However a doubt remains. This journey is a crossing of a part of myself, to discover. When I am there, there might be nothing. Nothing, but seeing fascism. I`m not talking about politics, I mean the collapse of a thought, the clash with a reality without stories, without myths."

Born in Toulouse (France), 1987, Luca Wyss is a filmmaker based in Paris. He studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieur d'Arts de Paris-Cergy. For years, he is member of the experimental cinema workshop "L'ETNA", before founding the collective "Les Inquiets" with Félix Albert. The collective works on the mediterranean space, aiming to weave bonds of sense and images between the shores of this sea. This work led them to film in Pristina (Kosovo), Alger (Algeria), Belgrade (Serbia), Tehran (Iran), in a hybrid approach, between documentary and contemporary art. In parallel with this work of co-directing, Luca Wyss develops a work of narrative experimentation, looking for new ways of seeing the space of possible in mythical stories and and personal testimonies. This work led him to shot in Beyrouth (Lebanon), Toulouse (France), Bienne (Swiss), Cazarsa (Italy). He tries to make the myth a vision of the reality. His latest movie belongs to this research.