The Special Need

Year
2012
Country
Italy
Duration
82’
Director
Carlo Zoratti

Twenty-nine-year old Enea is "super-mega-duper smart and handsome," but he's also autistic. He has never had sex but really wants to, and there's nothing wrong with his body that should stand in his way. As Italy doesn’t offer any legal solution to his problem, Enea embarks on a road trip with his friends Carlo and Alex. They start out at an Austrian brothel, then try a Swiss "sex assistant," and finally decide to go to Hamburg and meet a group of German sex workers trained to deal with disabled clients. What started out as a quest for sex soon becomes a journey into Enea’s most intimate feelings and a way for his two friends to explore their own conceptions of love, friendship and freedom. The camera acts like a fly on the wall, capturing Enea's world and the trip with his friends in the spirit of a feel-good movie. But the film also shows how Enea is often forced to sit on the sidelines and watch as others satisfy their desires.

Production
DETAiLFILM, Henning Kamm, + 33153952442, [email protected]
Sales
Wide House, Clanet Anais, +33153952441, [email protected], www.widehouse.org
Awards
2013 – Golden Dove at DOK Leipzig
Director
Carlo Zoratti

Carlo Zoratti was born in 1982. He graduated in interaction design at Turin University before moving to the Fabrica research center. He worked there for two years before becoming a freelance filmmaker and director. He has directed several music videos, short movies, the live show of the Italian pop star Jovanotti and funded the Italian web-tv channel Pronti Al Peggio. His experience varies from fiction to documentary. The Special Need is Carlo Zoratti’s first feature film.

Filmography

The Special Need (2013)

The Coal Miner’s Day
Year
2013
Country
France
Director
Gaël Mocaër ...
Life in Paradise – Illegals in the Neig…
Year
2013
Country
Switzerland
Director
Roman Vital ...
Linar
Year
2013
Country
Russia, Italy
Director
Nastia Tarasova ...
No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri…
Year
2013
Country
UK
Director
Callum Macrae ...
Locked Down
Year
2013
Country
Israel
Director
Liat Mer ...
The Captain and His Pirate
Year
2012
Country
Belgium, Germany
Director
Andy Wolff ...
Welcome to Fukushima
Year
2013
Country
Belgium, France
Director
Alain de Halleux ...
Crepuscule
Year
2014
Country
Ukraine
Director
Valentyn Vasyanovych ...
A Diary of a Journey
Year
2013
Country
Poland
Director
Piotr Stasik ...
Bintou
Year
2014
Country
Germany
Director
Simone Catharina Gaul ...
The Last Limousine
Year
2014
Country
Russia
Director
Daria Khlestkina ...
There Is peace?
Year
2013
Country
Spain
Director
Unai Aranzadi ...
Sodiq
Year
2013
Country
UK
Director
Adeyemi Michael ...
Yabuki-machi
Year
2012
Country
France
Director
Mitsuaki Saito ...
Filmstripe
Year
2012
Country
Canada
Director
John Blouin ...
Liza, Go Home!
Year
2012
Country
Lithuania, Estonia
Director
Oksana Buraja ...
Srulik
Year
2012
Country
Israel
Director
Noa Levin ...
Taxi for Two
Year
2013
Country
Canada
Director
Dan Popa ...
Vegas
Year
2013
Country
UK
Director
Lukasz Konopa ...
Dèfriche
Year
2013
Country
Canada
Director
Noémie Brassard ...
Nepal Forever
Year
2013
Country
Russia
Director
Aliona Polunina ...
Pussy vs Putin
Year
2013
Country
Russia
Director
Gogol’s Wives ...
Euromaidan. The Rough Cut
Year
2014
Directors
Volodymyr Tykhyi, Andriy Lytvynenko, Kateryna Gornostai, Roman Bondarchuk, Yulia Gontaruk, Andrey Kiselyov, Roman Liubyi, Oleksandr Techynskyi, Oleksiy Solodunov, Dmitry Stoykov ...
Amosov– Centenary
Year
2013
Country
Ukraine
Director
Sergey Lysenko ...
Café Voyage
Year
2013
Country
Ukraine
Director
Roman Bondarchuk ...
Sickfuckpeople
Year
2013
Country
Ukraine, Austria
Director
Juri Rechinsky ...
Putin’s Games
Year
2013
Country
Germany, Israel, Austria
Director
Alexander Gentelev ...
Theory of Education and Uliyana
Year
2011
Country
Czech Republic
Director
Alexandr Gorelik ...
Orange Winter
Year
2007
Country
USA
Director
Andrei Zagdansky ...
The southern border
Year
2014
Country
Ukraine
Director
Sergey Lysenko ...