Almost Perfect

Almost Perfect

In 1969, Switzerland’s image of perfection was undermined by a clumsy television operator who mistakenly deleted the official commentary of the Apollo 11 Mission. Journalists Marco Blaser and Eugenio Bigatto will return to the studio of forty years earlier to correct the mistake. But it won’t be that simple.

Pardi di domani-Special Event - Locarno Film Festival 2023

Italy / 2023 / 10'


Director

Director

Federico Frefel, filmmaker and editor born in Milan in 1989. He attended the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in New Technologies for Art and later graduated in 2016 from the Luchino Visconti Civica Scuola di Cinema with the short documentary L’oro dei giorni (Visioni dal Mondo-Italian Competition (Special Mention) FIPA-Jeune Création, Festival Dei Popoli – Doc at Work).

 

In 2020 he produced Mario Blaconà’s film Italia, teorie per un film di famiglia (Filmmaker International Film Festival-Prospettive Competition, FIDBA Festival Internacional De Cine Documental de Buenos Aires). In 2023, during the Locarno Spring Academy residency in collaboration with RSI Swiss Radiotelevisione, he created the archive short film Quasi Perfetto (76th Locarno Film Festival-Pardi di Doman, 48th Laceno D’oro, 34th Festival Internacional de Cinema da Fronteira).