The Last One for the Road

A charmingly melancholic road movie about unexpected friendship, nostalgia, and the pleasures of living, as three men cross the plains of Veneto in search of meaning, memories, and one last drink.

Carlobianchi and Doriano are stuck in a life of bar-hopping and nostalgia for days of former glory. When they meet Giulio, a shy and directionless architecture student, an unexpected alliance forms, and the two men take their newfound friend under their wing. Together they travel through a Venetian landscape marked by economic stagnation and the ruins of a bygone era. With humour and tenderness, Francesco Sossai captures an Italy where the future feels uncertain but fellowship still endures, in a life-affirming tale of a chance encounter across generations.

• Rasmus Kilander