UNDER THE WEATHER …elegy for an ordinary man There is no ‘best thing’ about having terminal cancer, but for forty-year-old Joe, being welcomed back into his childhood home, feeling the warmth and support of his sister and her husband and observing his young niece’s blossoming emotional maturity seem to give new meaning to a life he feels he had wasted. With unexpected humour, stark realism and quiet insight, UNDER THE WEATHER is an uplifting meditation on one man’s graceful surrender to the inevitable and the palpable impact his passing has on those he leaves behind.
Categorie: Awards 2023
SIR
Sir is a souls healer with the power of driving out moral and physical illness. His curse: not being able to use his skills to save his sick wife. His daughter hates him, while his granddaughter follows him constantly and admires his thaumaturgical gifts. The little girl’s hope is to learn the art of Sir and to save her grandmother with the most innocence of medications: some soap bubbles. Sir è un curatore di anime col potere di scacciare il male fisico e morale. La sua maledizione: non riuscire a guarire la moglie malata. La figlia lo odia, mentre la nipotina Gaia ne ammira le doti taumaturgiche. La speranza della piccola è apprendere l’arte di Sir e salvare la nonna col più innocente dei medicamenti: delle bolle di sapone. Sir sub ita (19’) https://vimeo.com/712635571 Password: SIR
IL CUSTODE E IL FANTASMA
It is Claudio’s first day on the job as the new caretaker of a large cemetery. The former caretaker warns him that some ghosts roam at night. Shocked but at the same time curious, Claudio will confront these ghosts. His own and our ghosts.
THE FREE HEARTS FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
“Short Reviewing the Story : in 1883 Nietzsche wrote the book “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” to use for teach the superman method. But the day he sees the “whipped horse in Turin”, he becomes disappointed, and at that moment he imagined the future of Human without emotion and realized that humans cannot become superhumans. Because without a “good heart” that helps to “balance” “truth” and “nature”, we cannot be superhuman it was the Prophet “Zarathustra” way . So it led Nietzsche to a mental breakdown and permanent illness and then death. But this was the beginning of the story because a distant future was waiting for mankind that Nietzsche imagined before he died …
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After getting infected with COVID 19, a 57-year-old painter, single woman, Mitra, goes into a coma. With her last breaths, she begins travelling to different pieces of her memories through her unconscious mind. Mitra’s spirit comes back home to pack an imaginary luggage full of her bittersweet memories and take it away. Moments before her last travel, just like Lot’s wife, she looks back at the lives of hers, her friends and her generation… at what they have done, what they have built and what they have ruined…
IT’S A WRAP
Grandma Haya decides to stop eating, stop taking her medication, and begins organizing her farewell party from life. Her friends and family try to dissuade her, but Haya is adamant about her decision. Miri, Haya’s daughter, finds herself caught between her desire to help her mother organize the farewell party, and her fear that she will soon become an orphan. This is also Miri’s last chance to find out from her mother the origins of her father, whom Miri has never met.
THE PROWLER
In a remote house, in the middle of a forest, a lonely man faces a mysterious prowler who steals his belongings.
THE BOY AND THE OWL
A young boy lives his life in a magical way, surrounded by the picturesque atmosphere of his village, in this fable about love and the act of letting go.
RED GAIA
Alone on the dying red planet, among the ruins of human civilization, one last android desperately guards the last essences of life. In her pursuit for meaning, she finds her own soul hanging in the balance. Red Gaia is a tone-poem meditation on life, death and rebirth, destruction and creation and the cycles of existence, drawing inspiration from the Bhagavad Gita, Dante’s Purgatorio, the Kabballah, the Tibetan Bardol Thodol as well as the legendary science fiction writer Isaac Asimov.
2020: LIFE AND DEATH OF A VIRUS
A visual and aural “Frankenstein” of images and news from around the world, gathered over two years of research, about that strange and absurd year that we are unlikely to forget…