3,700 km of coastline, a Fiat 1100, and an old travel diary, those are the ingredients for Pepe Danquart’s documentary. Following the footsteps of the great Italian thinker Pier Paolo Pasolini, the filmmaker gains a deep insight into the social reality of present-day Italy. The country is massively affected by globalization, migration and the phenomenon of mass tourism, which, more than ever, is characterised by the same hedonistic conformity that Pasolini lamented more than fifty years ago. Ahead of me the South is a poetic contemporary document, a kaleidoscopic picture of the Italy of today.

Un voyage le long des côtes italiennes sur les traces de celui qu’effectua Pier Paolo Pasolini en 1959. En forme de road-movie, un portrait du temps présent traversé d’échos du passé, entre constat désenchanté et beauté hypnotique des paysages.

In seiner dokumentarischen Reise begibt sich der deutsche Filmemacher Pepe Danquart auf die Spuren von Pier Paolo Pasolini