A short film selection presented by the Italian Cultural Institutes Melbourne & Sydney in association with the Centro Nazionale del Cortometraggio in Turin. The selection presents an overview of contemporary short production in Italy, touching various genres and themes.
The following ten short films will screen as a single session prior to the opening of the 2023 Festival.
Select your city to reserve your seats to this special free screening.
Sunday 17 September, 11:00am
Sydney | Adelaide | Canberra | Melbourne
Sunday 24 September, 11:00am
*Please note this is a strictly 18+ event and seats must be reserved
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LA CONFESSIONE
Director: Giuseppe D’Angella, Simone D’Alessandro
2022 | 15 min
In a small provincial town, the balance of a community is violated by a traumatic event. Don Oreste is about to become bishop and leave his legacy to Don Luca, a young priest born and raised in the same place. The two find themselves involved in the affair and spend a day in turmoil.
GRAZIANO E LA GIRAFFA
Director: Fabio Orlando, Tommaso Zerbi
2022 | 7 min
A man hungry for sausage buys a microwave oven that will drag him into the wild.
EIGHT STEPS
Director: Anna Seviroli
2022 | 12 min
The story of Nageth and his mother Amira, and their journey to a precarious hope. In the middle of this adventure, they will face the most dangerous obstacle, that of prejudice, which will have them face a great misunderstanding.
MAMME VOLANTI
Director: Giulio Tonincelli, Paolo Fossati
2022 | 15 min
In one of the richest, wealthiest and most polluted areas of Italy, a group of courageous and stubborn women fight to save their territory and their children, revealing a new perspective from which to look at the world.
SPIAGGIA LIBERA
Director: Ludovica Francesca Zedda
2022 | 16 min
On a deserted beach, between the sound of the waves and the sunlight, Roberto and Matilde spend a seemingly peaceful summer day together. Behind the memories of one and the silences of the other, lies the fear of addressing a critical topic for both.
PIZZA PANIC
Director: Leonardo Malaguti
2022 | 15 min
For ten years Guido has received pizzas every day that he has never ordered. Exasperated, he goes hunting for the person responsible. What seems like a simple investigation becomes an obsession that threatens to drive him to madness.
KM9
Director: Filippo Valsecchi
2022 | 12 min
Two young lovers drive east to enjoy the sunrise but end up at a crime scene and become the new target of the criminals.
NICA
Director: Giuditta Vasile
2022 | 8 min
A little girl and a father on their last morning together. A sudden goodbye. An abandonment without any sadness, yet another game of hide and seek where you can learn to find yourself.
NETTUNO
Director: Giulio Gobbetti
2022 | 11 min
An intimate portrait of Alessandra, the youngest of a line of Italian hoteliers. She grew up at the Hotel Nettuno, owned by her family for four generations. Today the hotel overwhelms her whole life: she lives and works in the hotel, with only a handful of days free.
TRAVEL NOTEBOOKS: CAIRO, EGYPT
Director: Silvia De Gennaro
2022 | 7 min
Dust, car horns, chants of the muezzin. Ruined houses, princely palaces. Gold, marble, inlaid wood, minarets, silver domes, the mystery of the pyramids, the hypnosis of geometry. A spinning city. The silence of the mosques. Peace of the Nile.