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Ten Shorts around the World - 2018
Ab Ovo
2016 – 25’ – Luca Ferri
In a deserted and hostile paradise, between mountains of sand and solitary camels on a perpetual journey, life is renewed with a promise of love in the shade of a lone tree. Adam and Eve have a chance.
Birthday
2017 – 15’ – Alberto Viavattene
Night. An abusive nurse wanders through the halls of a nursing home. She integrates her salary by secretly selling prescription drugs to junkies and stealing from the most vulnerable patients. The only thing she hates more than her job is old people. Upon entering room 12, occupied by three sisters, she discovers that one of them has just turned one-hundred years old: there must be a birthday present somewhere… that will change their lives forever.
Bismillah
2018 –14’ – Alessandro Grande
Samira is Tunisian, she is 10 years old and lives illegally in Italy with her father and her 17-year-old brother. One night she will find herself alone facing a problem that is just too big for her.
Denise
2017 – 15’ – Rossella Inglese
Denise is a teenager obsessed by what people think of her. Aware of being constantly observed by a camera, she exposes herself to the viewer in a fierce and provocative way.
Insetti
2017 – 20’ – Gianluca Manzetti
A little insect inside an electric circuit triggers the alarm of an apartment. This little event will be the meeting beetween the nephew of the apartment’s owner, an old unstable neighbor, and the eccentric block’s security guard. They will find themselves locked in a vortex of misunderstandings and violence. The same existential condition of the little insect within the circuit.
Koala
2017 – 15’ – Cristina Puccinelli
A girl wakes up in a strange room, not remembering anything about the night before, not even when she sees the boy who’s hosting her. She starts to be afraid.
Pastarelle
2016 – 16’ – Gianluca Manzetti
Agostino and Annalisa are a bizzarre young couple who are in one of those mornings in which Agostino is having an audition not before he had made an auspicious ritual. The madness with which they face this rite will come to touch a peak of grotesque comedy.
Respiro
2016 – 7’ – Andrea Brusa, Marco Scotuzzi
When a Syrian refugee has to cross the Italian border, she discovers that only one thing can save her: her breath.
Timballo
2017 – 17’ – Maurizio Forcella
To cook the best food in the world it takes special ingredients.
Yonder
2017 – 23’ – Roberto Cinardi
Nathan hasn’t seen another person in decades, ever since the bombs fell and life on earth almost completely vanished. His is an empty world, but he’s not alone.
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