PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Drago Sholev, director of the film The Pig.
Drago Sholev sits down with us and talks about his latest feature, The Pig, here in Lecce competing for the Golden Olive Tree award. The Pig is a simple yet powerful film that keeps – and holds down – the audience inside the psychological and physical struggles of being bullied, just because of any slight difference to conformity.
The Pig: Pig is a quite overweight boy of 13, who suffers every day the bully of his classmates. One day he becomes a victim of another mockery attack by a new boy, Martin, and, in his attempt to get free from the scuffle, Pig instinctively fights back with just one, but probably lethal strike…
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