The film Festina Lente – “Make haste slowly” – takes its inspiration from the very Latin adage and uses contemporary visual language to reinterpret the enduring spirit of the Renaissance.
Filmed across Florence, Naples, Palermo, Istanbul, and London, the film blends documentary realism with artistic narration to tell the personal journey of executive producer, writer, and presenter Roy Yu. He lives by Festina Lente as a life philosophy — integrating it into his daily life, travels, aesthetics, and the cultural dialogue between the East and the West that he champions fervently.
Director: Deniz Somuncuoglu
Writer: Roy Yu
Genre: Documentary








