La cabina delle memorie
by Shair Cruz Bahamonde, fiction, SPD, 16’00”, 2022
o.v. Italian, Sub. Eng.
A young man sets out in search of what he lacks to better understand himself. He will have the courage to face an intimate conversation about abandonment at a priest's confessional.
L'odó det rèsa
by Janush Lucchini, fiction, SPD, 18’00”, 2022
o.v. Biasca dialect (Ticino) and Italian, Sub. Eng., Ita.
Two guys, who usually spend their summers in the alpine village where one of them lives, take a hike in the high mountains. The different reactions to the pranks they play on each other during the ascent makes them realize how much they have changed. But only an unexpected event in the uncertainty of their return will be able to scale back their adolescent skirmishes.
La donna di cristallo
by Antonio Lo Porto, fiction, series pilot episode, SPD, 20’00”, 2022
o.v. Sicilian dialect and Italian, Sub. Eng., Ita.
The story, inspired by true events in 1975, begins with the arrival of the Scalici family in a small village in German-speaking Switzerland after emigrating from Sicily. What was supposed to be the beginning of a new life turns into a waking nightmare. Not only are the villagers ready to do anything to prevent the Italian family from interfering with their customs, but also the house they move into comes to life and dark presences begin to animate it.
Nina
by Chiara Toffoletto, fiction, SPD, 15’00”, 2022
o.v. Italian, Sub. Eng.
Nina and her two friends share trepidations and desires, amid adolescent games and self-discovery. As the girls engage in ever new challenges, Nina immerses herself in her own hesitations.
Simbiosi
by Davide Londero, fiction, SSS, 10’00”
o.v. Italian, Sub. Eng.
Marco is facing the terminal phase of his mother's illness, to whom he is deeply attached. He stays by her side isolating himself from the rest of the world without knowing what to do to ease her agony, hoping to regain his own will to live as well.
