cinematography
Tommaso Lusena De Sarmiento
editing
Fabio Nunziata
sound
Azzurra Stirpe
Giovanni Carosi

production design
Antonio Fiscina
Alice Rocchetta
costumes
Silvia Segoloni
music
Neerg
deejay DSastro
deejay Maskk

cast
Davide Valle (Leo)
George Li Tourniaire (Jo-Jo)
Roberto Sadhi Sersanti (Igor)

productions
Argo Film
Tranky Film
Filmesdamente
co-productions
Film Algarve
Film Aim
producers
Tommaso Lusena De Sarmiento
Tekla Taidelli
Roberto Santos
executive producers
Lello Carvelli
Stefano Govi
Alessandro Chiodo
Nuno Rocha
Victor Santos

Italian distribution
LSPG Popcorn Distribution
info@lspgitalia.it

Italian press office
Lionella Fiorillo
lionella.fiorillo@storyfinders.it
Cristina Scognamillo
criscognamillo@gmail.com

Leo is only twenty, but his life is in black and white. His days always begin at 6:06, with odd jobs and an endless race to get his hands on his next hit. Taking drugs is not just an addiction; it’s a mental loop that keeps Leo trapped in an eternal déjà vu. Each time he tries to break out and escape, he’s always sent back to square one. Until he meets Jo-Jo, an enigmatic girl his same age who speaks French only and drives a camper like she’s on the run from something. Like him, she has deep scars. So Jo-Jo is not an easy way out, but it’s chaos that Leo needs. She has her own demons, and in some way, she can see into Leo’s fractured psyche. They drive off to Portugal together, through dusty, dreamlike landscapes, and there, their souls connect and finally speak the same language. Yet saving each other won’t be easy. Leo struggles with his dependency, while Jo-Jo seems to be one step away from dissolving into thin air – as if she were only there to show Leo the path to take.

2025 6:06
2021 Il capitano è fuori a pranzo (short)
2020 Amleto (short)
2020 Bedu Beddna Naiesh (doc)
2011 My Big-Assed Mother (short)
2008 5 euro (short)
2004 Fuori vena

“6:06 is a visceral, intimate film, rooted in the experience of its creator and her own scars, as she probes the frontier between salvation and self-destruction. The director works with non-professional and ‘street’ actors in order to bring a raw authenticity to the screen. The lead roles, Leo (Davide Valle) and Jo-Jo (George Li), embody vulnerability and chaos: Leo represents an emotional void, while Jo-Jo is a destabilizing force, but not a redemptive one. Cinematographer Tommaso Lusena De Sarmiento uses flickering light and an exaggerated palette to drive home the alienation and addiction. 6:06 is a scathing look at a rough ride that holds out no promise of salvation; it invites the viewer to grapple with the pain and chaos of life, showing that in its deepest fissures, beauty lies.” (Tekla Taidelli)

Tekla Taidelli graduated with a degree in directing from Milan’s Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti in 2002. She has always brought social issues to her filmmaking, like life on the street and the rawest and most radical lifestyles, from punks, drug users, toughing out the poorest outskirts and prison, to the homeless, immigrants, and even the Bedouin tribes of South Sinai, wielding an “underground neorealism”. She attracted attention in 2004 for her first feature film, Fuori vena, selected for Locarno and winner of the Sulmona Film Festival. In 2013, she founded the Scuola di Street Cinema, where she teaches her ideas about film: “giving the invisible a voice,” and superimposing current issues on works by Shakespeare and authors like Bukowski, Kerouac, Pasolini, and Kafka. In 2024, her school traveled to the well-known rehabilitation facility San Patrignano, where she and renowned showman Paolo Ruffini made the short Amleto a Sanpa.