Written and directed by Emanuele Aldrovandi, an award winning young author and director from Emilia, L’estinzione della razza umana, is a sort of exorcism – at once cathartic and liberating – which helps us come to terms with our present through its irony, lucidity and a touch of grotesque surrealism.

A world caught in a hectic and inhuman race, with no time for thinking or introspection is suddenly visited by a virus that turns people into turkeys and blocks and distorts everything.
The two couples who are the tale’s protagonists, are just ordinary people, each with a different philosophical take on life. They find themselves in the hallway of a building assailed by questions, frustrations and fears.
Aldovrandi, who has already been a guest at the LAC with Isabel Green and Farfalle is also author of the adaptation of La bottega del caffè, directed by Igor Horvat (LAC production). Here he uses a tragicomic language with finely honed dialogue to tell the story of five human beings transitioning into adulthood, while he delves mercilessly inside each of them to find that one last thing they are holding on to, when everything around them appears to be collapsing.