Latina, Latina
Adrian Duncan / Ireland / 2025 / International Premiere / 84 min
Elegant and philosophical journey through Italy where a young geologist, guided by her father's diaries, studies the architectural heritage of fascism. A thoughtful film between reality and fiction.
One morning, an Irish geologist at his university in Bolzano receives a phone call from a hospital in Berlin. The nurse tells her that her father – whom she hasn’t seen for over 30 years – has fallen down a flight of stairs and passed out. As his next of kin, she is asked to come to Berlin.
Over the course of one night in his Berlin apartment, she learns through his diaries about a trip he took with a friend to Italy in the early 2000s to examine a series of buildings and sculptures from the fascist era. It was a trip that ended in grave tragedy.
‘Latina, Latina’ is a dreamy and reflective journey through old Europe that may be closer to our own time than we think. Irish artist Adrian Duncan works with images as if they were words that coalesce into a philosophical stream of thought about time, architecture and cultural history. Big subjects that Duncan treats with serious attention, but also with great cinematic elegance.