Tommaso Donati
Locarno Residency 2022 | Switzerland
Locarno Residency 2022 | Switzerland
Tommaso Donati (Lugano, 1988) graduated in film studies at the École Internationale de Création Audiovisuelle et de Réalisation (EICAR) in Paris. He currently lives and works in Lugano. His work combines a narrative approach with documentary cinema and is structured around the theme of marginality. His short films have been presented at various national and international festivals, including Locarno, Solothurn, Turin, Festival dei Popoli, FilmmakerFest and Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. In 2020, he participated in the Berlinale Talents programme. His latest film, Forma del Primo Movimento (2022) was presented at the Solothurn Film Festival in 2022.
2014 Casa di legna
2015 Faim
2016 Dormiente
2017 A Song from the Future
2017 Esseri
2018 Monte Amiata
2019 Je parle à mes démons
2020 Cligne-Musette
2021 L'epoca Geniale
2022 Forma del primo movimento
Production: Ventura Film SA
An era is ending and a new one is beginning, of which nothing is known yet.
A film about love and loneliness. Tales of imprisonment, stories of young and old people abandoned under the arcades, waiting on station benches or inside a bar; queuing at the office, or simply portrayed in their homes. All in a set of non-places between city and countryside that reflect the protagonists' state of limbo, waiting for a revelation.
