A puppet becomes your worst fear and your only friend in this Italian fever dream.
An insecure boy travels through the woods with his puppet on a journey that will lead him to self-awareness and to his destiny.
Sound
Yuri's puppet voice will haunt your dreams, sorry.
Direction
Pavone treats childhood terror with genuinely unsettling respect.
Director
Marco Pavone
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pavone developed this through Italy's historic Cartoons on the Bay festival, emerging from a national tradition of children's media that refuses to condescend — think Comencini meets Svankmajer.
The title refers to the 'double zero' train ticket children used in postwar Italy — symbolically, Yuri is traveling without destination or return, a one-way trip into himself that mirrors Italian neorealism's lost children updated for psychological horror.
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