Esen Studios

Paolo, a forty-year-old single man, spends his time between his flat and the museum of fake fruits, where he works as a guard. He lives in a suspended bubble, unaware of his unhappiness and inability to react. An accidental meeting will shift, maybe definitely, his inner world.

Once upon a time in this dairy farm we had 400 cows and 100 calves. What are you doing with them? Now we have 40 cows and 10 calves. You even don't have mercy for the calves.

A little girl is waiting for her grandmother to come after a long time that she has not see her. She has an imagination about her but when the grandmother comes she is not like what she imagined, so she decides to make her imagination comes to reality.

In a remote mountain village, the ritual of the chain of time occurs every year: here, a child, chosen by the Priestess, must deliver her the symbol of the childhood.

Andrei, a Moldovan guy, lives just outside Rome together with his mother and 16-year-old sister whom he cares for as a father. His routine involves racing his car, working as a stable hand, and spending evenings with friends. He dreams to become a singer-songwriter, even if the money problems push him into a different direction.

A man in a long door-studded hallway: a metaphorical place inside his mind. It's time for him to come to terms with a past that has been buried for years and will now resurface with the tinkling of keys.

Iranian girl Helia has become thirteen, which led her family to restrict her from cycling.

A family story of three generations (Grandma Gianna, her daughter Daniela and the young Flavio) that unfolds through old photographs, confessions left hanging and a past shrouded in mystery. Luigi, husband and father who passed away too soon, is a shadow that continues to live in the daily gestures and silences of his family. An intimate and delicate story that explores the weight of family silence and the power of hidden memories.