from 6 to 9 March 2025, Teatro Trifiletti.
Art Directors: Mario Sesti, Caterina Taricano.
Direction: Sea-Hoo Jeon
Year: 2024
Duration: 14’14’’
Direction: Francisco Arango Ceballos
Year: 2024
Duration: 14’
The film explores the evolutionary adaptations of these insects, their enigmatic methods of communication and the challenges they face, highlighting their ecological role and the importance of their conservation.
Direction: Hannes Rall
Year : 2024
Duration: 2’42’’
How to bring young audiences closer to Shakespeare’s world? Director Hannes Rall answers with a short animated film, where the poet’s works come to life in dynamic images.
Direction: Giuseppe Cacace
Year: 2024
Duration: 13’30’’
Paolo, on trial at a call center, must convince the elderly Nando to reveal his credit card information. A short about telephone scams, loneliness and the burden of certain jobs.
Direction: Orso, Peter e Benjamin Myakawa
Year: 2024
Duration: 2’19’’
The film investigates the evolutionary adaptations of these insects, their enigmatic language and the challenges they face, highlighting their ecological role and the importance of their conservation.
Direction: Camilla Morino
Year: 2024
Duration: 13’58’’
Sisters Mila and Marzia relive the past through family films shot by their father between the 60s and 80s. Rediscovering their memories, they realize how memory can transform once-certain truths.
Direction: Mohammad Hossein Ramezani
Year : 2024
Duration: 13’05’’
A man who, according to Islamic tradition, washes the dead, this time must wash the body of his wife’s murderer…
Direction: Nuanda Sheridan
Year: 2024
Duration: 15’
In Southern Italy, an old farmer lives between memories and regrets: a tragic homosexual love and a secret kept for a lifetime. To escape loneliness, he creates a reality in which his lost love is still beside him
Direction: Lyna Tadount, Sofian Chouaib
Year : 2024
Duration: 3’
Mentre la mamma e il papà cercano di far addormentare il loro bambino, tra loro nasce una gara: chi riuscirà a far dire la prima parola al bambino?
Direction: Roberto Valencia
Year: 2024
Duration: 10’
In a village of only six people, a mysterious man is found lying in the square. No one knows who he is or where he came from, but they must quickly decide what to do before he wakes up.
Direction: Lucie Langlois
Year: 2024
Duration: 9’30’’
Four days after her friend’s death, Prune feels numb. They suggest she go swimming. Why not? Maybe in the depths of the pool, she can find herself.
Direction: Sekwon Seo
Year: 2024
Duration: 14’51’’
Hongsik lives in a house full of family memories, but fears being a burden to his son. Preparing for death, he takes a memorial photo and finally meets the son he longed for.
Direction: R. Basile, S. Mastropaolo, G. Salvato, G. Sanzeri
Year : 2024
Duration: 13’13’’
“Danilo Flachi” tells the story of a projectionist living in Palermo, Italy.
Direction: Christofer Nilsson
Year : 2024
Duration: 13’13’’
A fed-up delivery boy chooses a split-second act of rebellion, resulting in an awkward, spiraling dance between 21st-century classrooms.
Direction: Valentin Devries
Year: 2024
Duration: 12’53’’
During a company seminar, a playful but serious exercise invites colleagues to reflect on the company’s values. A plastic ball is passed from hand to hand, between enthusiasm and skepticism.
Direction: Carlo Prozzo
Year: 2024
Duration: 10’
A father, a son and the memories of a summer in Campomarino. Post-it is a dramatic short about their fragile bond, made of silences, distances and unexpressed affections.
Direction: Sheida Sheikhha
Year: 2024
Duration: 13’40’’
Set in a future where natural light is a luxury, Brighter Days follows Edgar, a father who struggles to bring sunshine into his dark home and give his children an unforgettable moment.
Direction: Ahmet Serhat Ak
Year: 2024
Duration: 12’
After the 1980 coup, Turkey applied the death penalty by breaking a pencil, a unique ritual in the world. A judicial officer collected the fragments and created one for his son.
Direction: Giovanni Dinatale
Year : 2024
Duration: 8’
Set in 1968, the short film tells the story of a meeting between a patient and the director of the mental institution. Through their dialogue, the non-clinical reasons for her internment emerge.
Direction: Hadi Moussaly
Year: 2024
Duration: 9’53’’
Sultana of New York, Palestinian drag queen and artist, retraces her journey between the Middle East and America. Between challenges, nostalgia for Egyptian cinema and the struggle for self-expression, she celebrates her art.
Direction: Reeva Billy
Year: 2024
Duration: 4’25’’
It tells the story of the transmission of Squamish culture through the construction of war canoes. Mike Billy Sr. and Jr. of the Canoe Cultures program share the passing of knowledge between generations.
Direction: Gianluca Zonta
Year: 2024
Duration: 14’
Vincenzo, on his first date with Sara, relies on an AI to find the right words. When love is born, they organize a blind date for their friends, both guided by artificial intelligence.
Direction: Nazanin Chitsaz
Year: 2024
Duration: 1’45’’
A child collects wasted drops of water…
Direction: Ismail Hakki Koçak
Year : 2024
Duration: 8’
Sahin, 17, and his brother Sinan, 12, work tirelessly loading and unloading trucks. Sinan uses newspaper to protect his hands, unaware that the printed headline denounces the increase in child labor.
Direction: Matteo Malatesta
Year: 2024
Duration: 113’
Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi recount 25 years of career as film composers, exploring the evolution of film music through meetings and travels, starting from cinematic Genoa.
Direction: Susanne Marschall, Hannes Rall
Year: 2023
Duration: 88’
An award-winning work about Friedrich Hölderlin, the German poet and philosopher whose art inspired over 1,800 musical compositions. With five animated sequences, Susanne Marschall and Hannes Rall’s documentary explores his enduring influence.
Direction: M. Spagnoli, S. Senardi
Year: 2015
Duration: 100’
Ten years after his death, the fundamental stages of Pino Daniele’s life and career.
Direction: Giorgio Verdelli
Year : 2023
Duration: 97’
Enzo Jannacci, an eclectic artist, innovated Milanese song and told the story of the excluded. With a vast repertoire and testimonies from friends and colleagues, the film gives the portrait of an extraordinary artist.
Direction: Anita Rivaroli
Year: 2020
Duration: 78’
It tells the story of Rockin’1000, the biggest rock band in the world, born in 2015 when 1000 musicians came together in Cesena to play “Learn To Fly” and send the video to the Foo Fighters. The film thrills with testimonies and live images of the epic concert that won over the audience.
Direction: A. Paco Mariani, L. D’Alife
Year : 2023
Duration: 96’
In 1988 in Melpignano, a historic performance of Soviet rock bands marks the beginning of a musical bond between Italy and the Soviet Union. In 1989, CCCP – Fedeli alla linea and other Italian bands perform in the USSR, creating a bridge between two divided worlds through music.
Direction: Sergio Rubini
Year: 2009
Duration: 117’
Direction: Anna Carlucci
Year: 2024
Duration: 52’
Direction: Marco Tullio Giordana
Year: 2015
Duration: 100’
The film tells the story of Lea Garofalo, a witness of justice who challenged the ‘ndrangheta to ensure an honest life for her daughter Denise. A journey of formation where pain and violence intertwine with moments of hope, joy and dreams.
Direction: Giuseppe Bonito
Year : 2020
Duration: 110’
Summer 1975. A thirteen-year-old girl is returned to the family she never knew she had, losing everything she knew: a comfortable home and the exclusive affection of an only child, suddenly finding herself catapulted into a strange world.
Direction: Sonia Bergamasco
Year: 2025
Duration: 93’
A hundred years after the death of Eleonora Duse, Sonia Bergamasco explores the legacy of an actress who revolutionized acting, inspiring generations of actors. The Divine beyond the myth.
Direction: Marco Tullio Giordana
Year: 2024
Duration: 110’
In Vicenza, Maria and Osvaldo have a daughter, Rebecca, marked by a purple spot on her face. Her mother, obsessed by her deformity, rejects her mother’s affection. Despite her isolation, Rebecca finds freedom in her extraordinary musical talents.
Direction: Vincenzo Caricari
Year: 2023
Duration: 60’
Mimmo Lucano, former mayor of Riace, creates a model of reception for immigrants that makes him famous, but in 2018 he is arrested and in 2021 sentenced to 13 years. The film retraces his journey between public and private moments.
Direction: Dario Cangemi
Year : 2023
Duration: 33’
Direction: Francesco Costabile
Year : 2024
Duration: 124’
Luigi, twenty years old, lives with his mother and brother. After ten years, his violent father returns, trying to take back the family. Luigi, in search of identity, joins a far-right group. Their story between the dark past and the difficult path of rebirth.