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NOTTE ROMANA

Valerio Ferrara / 12 min / 2021 / Italy

In an upper-class neighborhood of Rome, Paolo is having a drink with his friends, as per usual. When he decides to go home, he is approached by two dodgy-looking guys. […]

CAPITAN DIDIER

Margherita Ferri / 15 min / 2021 / Italy

Didier is a child from sub-Saharan Africa, who dreams of building his own boat with pizza boxes. Amir, his father, works as a driver at Franca’s pizza place. Every evening, […]

INCHEI

Federico Demattè / 18 min / 2021 / Italy

Armando is a young rom, he spends the last two days beforeleaving for Berlin surrounded by his life-long friends, hisfirst love and a nostalgic feeling for Milan, which by now […]

L’ITALIA CHIAMO’

/ 8 min / 2020 / Italy

Rome, the COVID19 lockdown has just ended. Aldo is a 78 years old man who lost his wife who fell ill with Coronavirus during the quarantine. From that moment Aldo […]

YALLA

Carlo D'Ursi / 10 min / 2020 / Italy/Spain

Four teenagers play football near an area guarded by a military drone. The ball ends behind a hill and Mufid has to go to find it. He never expected that […]

WHERE THE LEAVES FALL

Xin Alessandro Zheng / 16 min / 2020 / Italy

Giacomo, a young second-generation Italian-Chinese student, travels to the Chinese county of Wencheng to bring back the ashes of his late father; Here, in his parent’s hometown, he stays with […]

BATACLAN

Emanuele Aldrovandi / 15 min / 2020 / Italy

A French girl, daughter of second-generation immigrants, walks into a police station to report her brother Jamil’s involvement in the imminent terrorist attacks at the Stade de France and Bataclan, […]

MOTHER

Antonio Costa / 20 min / 2020 / Italy

The young Plazen (“fire”) is taking care of John, who is very ill. They both live in an old farmhouse and have a brown cow. John asks Plazen to kill […]

AFRAID

Daniele Suraci / 15 min / 2020 / Italy

In a small village in southern Calabria, Saro – a 10-year-old boy – is struggling to overcome his fears, waiting for a “lost” grief-stricken father to come back. […]

ACCAMÒRA (Right Now)

Emanuela Muzzupappa / 11 min / 2020 / Italy

Fig harvesting on the rugged Calabrian hills is a yearly life ritual for Antonio. That place is full of memories – it echoes the laughs and the melancholy of past […]

KLOD

Giuseppe Marco Albano / 15 min / 2020 / Italy

Klaudio is 13 and dreams of becoming a basketball player. On a day like any other, the roar of a car breaks the silence of the countryside where he lives […]

AMAL

Matteo Russo & Antonio Buscema / 17 min / 2019 / Italy

“Amal” is a quite and crusty man who remained alone in the world. He decides to spend its existence in the outskirts of the village by fixing an old car […]

APE REGINA

Nicola Sorcinelli / 13 min / 2019 / Italy

Elsa is seventy years old and she has five empty beehives. The bees are gone, like her husband, whom she cannot forgive to have passed away before her. Only a […]

IL CONGEDO

Edoardo Winspeare / 14 min / 2019 / Italy

A man is dying, his beloved wife is at his bedside. Life abandons the body of the husband, the woman despairs. But life goes on: on one hand we see […]

3 SLEEPS

Christopher Holt / 18 min / 2019 / United Kingdom

Casey (9) and her two young sisters Megan (7) and Taylor (5) live on a tough council estate in London, England. Casey is sworn to secrecy, when their troubled mum […]

THE ALLY

Elio Di Pace / 16 min / 2019 / Italy

Is there a chance for the photographs taken by Robert Capa – portraying the Allied Invasion of Sicily – to come to life, bringing forth new stories? Will American soldiers […]

MANARA

Zayn Alexander / 15 min / 2019 / Lebanon

Tragedy strikes when the Zayyad family loses its patriarch under mysterious circumstances, leaving the surviving members to fend for themselves within a judgmental community in Southern Lebanon. […]

ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS

Giulia Di Battista / 13 min / 2018 / Italy

Agnes is an old woman, half paralized due to a ictus who lives in her memories: fetishes that are protected by plastic canvas because nothing, even time, can hurt them. […]

AMATEUR

Simone Bozzelli / 15 min / 2019 / Italy

A hot afternoon. Serena helps Christopher study German. He is bored and prefers  to  record her with his cell phone. She doesn’t want him to, but he likes it; she […]

SPERA TERESA

Damiano Giacomelli / 15 min / 2019 / Italy

Teresa is a young disabled singer determined to be somebody in the world of traditional italian music, despite the difficulties due to her physical condition, the post-seismic context and her […]

FRONTIERA

Alessandro Di Gregorio / 15 min / 2018 / Italy

On a ferry travelling towards Lampedusa, we find a teenager on his first day of work as a gravedigger and a boy on his first mission as a diver. They […]

BARADAR

/ 14 min / 2019 / Italy

When they are forced to separate, 10-year-old Ali and his 18-year-old brother Mohammed have already been travelling for a long time. Three years earlier, a bomb destroyed their home in […]

OUR TIME

/ 16 min / 2019 / Italy

Roberta is a nine year old girl who wants to enjoy the last days of summer on the beach playingwith her friends, while her father Donato forces her to stay […]

SHE FIGHTS

Nicola Martini / 15 min / 2019 / Italy

A seventeen year-old girl meets a guy on the internet. A love is born between them. A feeling that Teresa’s mother does not understand and that will deeply concern her, […]

THE PLACE OF HAPPINESS

Aliosha Massine / 15 min / 2019 / Italy

One morning in December, Rami, an illegal immigrant of Syrian origins, flees from the city and sets out for the countryside with a rucksack on his back. Rosa, a young […]

INTERVIEW WITH ROSSELLA

Andrea Andolina / 10 min / 2019 / Italy

Rossella is an old lady, mother and grandmother, very busy and full of interests. […]

MUTTERSCHAFT

Flavio Rigamonti / 5 min / 2018 / Germany

An afternoon like many others in the provinces of Tuscany, central Italy, has an unexpected twist when a mother decides to confiscate her teenager daughter’s telephone. […]

FAUVE

Jeremy Comte / 17 min / 2017 / Canada

Alone in the wild, two boys play around a surface mine. Complicity evolves into a confrontation where one wants to have power over the other. When one suddenly gets caught […]

AJO

/ 12 min / 2018 / Italy

In  the  hospital  Zana’s  mother  should  be  silent  and  not  tell  a  word  to  the  police  about  what  happened  to  her.  Zana  has  to    make  a  courageous  decision,  for  both  […]

PER SEMPRE

/ 9 min / 2018 / Italy

Per Sempre is a short film written and directed by Alessio Di Cosimo, a short film about courage, loneliness but above all talks about love, the real one, the one […]

VETRO

/ 14 min / 2018 / Italy

In the middle of the night, in a suburban street, a traffic accident marks the fate of three people. […]

ELIAS

Brando Bartoleschi / 12 min / 2018 / Italy

Elias is a 10-year-old roman child who lives in a nomad camp. To save the life of a puppy he will go against his peers, an event that, for better […]

PIANO TERRA

Domenico Natale Zangaro / 15 min / 2018 / Italy

Gloria, a young pregnant lady from a Roman suburb, helped by her friend, organizes to escape from prison. While in hospital, preparing to labour, she is constantly supervised as she […]

IM BAREN

/ 15 min / 2018 / Italy-Germany

A day in the life of an Italian girl who has just moved to Berlin. Antonia, having to go through a series of grotesque castings to find a house, is […]

NOMOFOBIA

/ 15 min / 2018 / Italy

An afternoon like many others in the provinces of Tuscany, central Italy, has an unexpected twist when a mother decides to confiscate her teenager daughter’s telephone. […]