Short Films Drama
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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
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
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’
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Rossella is an old lady, mother and grandmother, very busy and full of interests. […]

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

ELIAS
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
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
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
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. […]
