Vista Mare

Summer after summer, millions of tourists are drawn to the seemingly endless sandy beaches between Lignano, Jesolo and Riccione. Row upon row of colourful parasols dot the landscape and the “largest bathtub in Europe” lives up to its name amidst the hustle and bustle of the tourist crowds. But behind all the summery “dolce far niente” lies a gigantic system of mass tourism that makes the industrialized handling of the vacation masses possible in the first place. VISTA MARE takes a look behind the scenes of this operating system, seeks to get close to the people who keep it running and tells of the realities of their work between plastic palm trees and pedal boats. In the shadow of the supposed vacation idyll, the film makes visible those who work so that others can enjoy their vacation to the fullest without a care in the world. Between nostalgically glorified summer dreams and precarious seasonal contracts, VISTA MARE searches for the fault lines in the beach cosmos, shows the contradictions and abysses in the Adriatic system in cinematically precise images and poses the exemplary fundamental question of the conditions inside the tourist sphere.