Costa Luminosa is a film of films based on the pleasure cruises that were affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Its content is derived from selected experiences aboard one of the craziest places to live through that global health crisis: cruise liners. 

Using a combination of fictional narrative and journalistic reportage, the stories range from the most private spaces to general views, transporting spectators to the cabins on these floating islands and to ports where no one can disembark. The world suffers through an awkward pause that forces us to confront the one-size-fits-all tourism model so perfectly embodied by these megalomaniacal structures. 

The film is a kind of home-assembled compilation album of ad hoc recordings, fragments of our personal archives, and discarded footage from other projects. It was made during different phases of the Covid lockdown, with the constraints of the measures taken by the government in an attempt to curb the disease’s spread.