At the 25th Umbria Film Festival there will be many news!
Among these, the first edition of “AmarCorti – the competition”.
Many young Italian filmmakers have signed up to it, in March of this year: here are the 15 finalist short films, which will be screened at the Festival!
Thursday 8 July, from 6 pm. San Fedele Theater, Montone.
THE PHOTONIC ATOMICS
by Davide Morando, with Giovanni Storti, Francesco Buttironi, Martina De Santis. Italy, 2020, 14’
Riccardo has to declare his love to Laura, but on the very day he decides to do so, his eccentric father decides to drag him on a road trip to a bizarre talent show.
NÉO KÓSMO – THE NEW WORLD
by Adelmo Togliani, with Giorgia Surina, Giorgio Consoli, Kateryna Korchynska. Italy, 2020, 19’
In a future where humanity no longer communicates with each other except through virtual reality, the only member of a family to achieve the progressive disintegration of family relationships is the home android.
EL POLAQUITO
by Andrea Fiorito, Jacopo Brucculeri & Tomas Barile, with David Vazquez Carmenate. Cuba, 2019, 11’46”
A car can tell many stories. This is the story of a Fiat 126.
CRASH
by Niccolò Gaetano. Italy, 2021, 3’44”
A bittersweet meditation on cell phone use while driving.
ZHENG
by Giacomo Sebastiani, with Zheng Naiqiao, Xu Chuantao, Bian Minhao, Wang Juan. Italy, 2020, 25’
For Zheng, no conquest has been easy and now he pours out on others the same rawness that was reserved for him as a young man. But now the lure of human contact places him in front of the most difficult choice of his life.
LA SEDIA/THE CHAIR
by Raffaele Salvaggiola, with Bruno Morgante and Fabrizio Mangieri. Italy, 2020, 14’59”
5-year-old Giulio imitates the gestures of an elderly neighbor. Unknowingly, the game will lead him to make new discoveries and new friends.
FIGHTING SOULS/ANIME COMBATTENTI
by Stratos Cotugno. Italy, 2020, 7’01”
On May 25th, 2020, George Floyd is murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis. It is the beginning of an unparalleled revolt for equality rights.
Thursday 8 July, from 6 pm. San Fedele Theater, Montone.
IRREVERSIBLE
by Matteo De Liberato, with Andrea Fuorto, Alessandro de Filippis, Pietro Bovi. Italy, 2020, 12’
Two very distant universes meet by chance, from this meeting Marco and Carlo will never be able to go back.
GEA – THE LAST COW
by Paolo Bonfadini, Irene Cotroneo, Davide Morando, with Edoardo De Sero, Davide Falletto. Italy, 2020, 10’
In 2012 in Serravalle Langhe all the cows disappeared except one: Gea. A social initiative will lead her to be more Instagram famous than the President of the United States of America.
BRÜCHE – CREPE
by Andrea Cazzaniga, with Lea Van Acken, Athena Strates, Friederike Frerichs. Germany, 2020, 18’54”
During a trip to the German countryside, Iris and Nicole stay in a mysterious monastery…
THE HEAVENS
by Manuel Marini, with Celeste Casciaro, Salvatore Della Villa, Anna Boccadamo. Italy, 2020, 12’
A parasite is decimating the family’s olive grove and Lucia has to face the delicate process of accepting the loss.
WHERE THE LEAVES FALL
by Xin Alessandro Zheng, with Giulio Anan Cai, Zheng Wuyi. Italy, 2020, 16’
Giacomo, a second generation Italian-Chinese, must bring his father’s ashes back to China. The trip will be a discovery of the traditions and values of his second homeland.
DANZAMATTA
by Vanja Victor K. Tognola, with Mario Fuchs, Julian Laybourne, Vladko Minoli. Switzerland, 2021, 5’
The party is over but Robin keeps dancing… what on earth is happening?!
I STARED FIRE FOREVER
by Salvatore Insana and Silvia Cignoli. Italy, 2020, 23’
An investigation into the act of looking and being looked at, a history of the (not) archived gaze.
THUNDER AND LIGHTNING
by Daniele Lince, with Carolina Crescentini, Mario Sgueglia. Italy, 2019, 6’06”
The Woman Lightning has incredible powers, but they will be useless when she has to reveal an unexpected news to her partner who is unaware of her second identity.