The Art of Happiness (L’Arte della Felicita; Italy)
(84 min; 2013; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Alessandro Rak
 
Recipient of the Young Cinema Award, Venice Film Festival
 
The adult animated feature The Art of Happiness successfully presents a dramatic family story and its aftermath in the background of a world gone astray. Two brothers. Two continents. Two lives. One single soul. Under a gloomy sky, between apocalyptic premonitions in a Naples at its utmost decay, Sergio, a taxi driver, receives shocking news