IFA Scuola di Cinema

Giulietto is a really shy 8-year-old kid, whose parents, recently moved to the countryside, and are going through a hard time in their marriage that reflects on the child despite their intentions. Giulietto finds a way to escape, hiding under the big cherry tree, with his friend Mario.

What are you willing to do for love? Nilde, when she was in her early twenties, followed the person she loved from Brazil to Italy. Here she started a family and here she got stuck. Saudade is an intimate conversation between a grieving mother and her son who tries to understand her. Memories resurface and sculpt the present, creating the complex portrait of two different families who have inevitably united.

Investigating Marco, twenty year old found dead after a party, the story reconstructs a chain of human and emotional bonds, including friendship and its value within a small province.

A rider delivers a package containing a piece of a dead bodg to a lady, the mistery must be solved.

A child finds himself on a journey between the urban and the sacred worlds to be reunited with his mother one last time. The priest leads him through the hurdles of the two dimensions to the point of reliving his last moments

At the age of 11, Tommaso lost his mother and was accused of her death. Years later, he returns to his hometown, where he faces his fears and nightmares on a journey that blurs the lines between reality and dreams.

A man seeks refuge in his small house at the foot of the mountain. As time passes and silence envelops the rooms, a voice from the past echoes, flowing endlessly through the worn audio cassettes. Among the artisan’s pebbles, the man tries to recreate the face of that voice, while the entity observes and feeds on his obsession. A tale of solitude, art, and connection beyond reality, accompanied by the verses of poet Antonia Pozzi.

A former worker, convinced that the factory stole his heart to make him more productive, becomes the protagonist of a television investigation that reveals the dark side of the world of work. A system that governs workers' bodies and lives, where individual distress is transformed into a problem to be managed: every institutional voice contributes to neutralizing the conflict, transforming what isn't productive into individual fragility, a paranoia.

The peaceful life of a countryman, soon to become a father, is continuously disrupted by bizarre events and unsettling apparitions. What is happening around him? How much of what he is experiencing is real, and how much is a product of his imagination?