The Umbriametraggi section, created in 2007 as an experimental event, has become after thirteen years (and after more than 120 short movies) a familiar and much-awaited event in the programme of Umbria Film Festival. The section, in particular, presents a selection of short films by Umbrian filmmakers, chosen through a specific competition. This year, a jury has selected, among several entries, eleven short films that will have the chance to be rewarded. The different stories, styles, perspectives and genres presented at Umbriametraggi will offer the audience a further point of view on the trends and experimentations of independent filmmaking. Experts, enthusiasts and curious will find in the Umbrian village, between the theater and the piazza, among the narrow streets and panoramic views, a place of choice for new ideas, meetings, exchanges and interactions.
Sunday 14 July – Church of St. Francesco – h. 4.00pm
IL RE BAMBINO/Lorenzo Lombardi e Nicola Santi Amantini (2019), 16’ A king and his subjects live in a realm without time and place: they are all 11 years old! One day the subjects rebel against the tyrannies of the king, then condemned to re-education and respect. 
MA VIE/Virginia Russo (2018), 13’ During a Christmas dinner an unexpected guest turns over the “quiet” life of a bourgeois family that has particular habits. The result will be a love concept that overcomes male and female. 
I L SACCO/Andrea Baldini (2019), 5’ Cesare Caligari is back to his apartment and finds a man in a bag, so he takes a cleaver and kills him. Meanwhile a man is about to enter the apartment and Cesare hides in the bag. 
ERASERHEAD - RIMOZIONE SICURA/Edoardo Genzolini (2019), 12’11’’ A short with no “story”, but only Instagram stories: Instagram substitutes reality, reducing its space, and driving its time with an algorithm. 
THEO. APOLOGIA DI UN COLLETTO BIANCO/Giulio d’Andrea e Iolanda Moldoveanu (2019), 10’ Theo is the collision of two worlds: that of an artist, where dreams can become bigger than reality, and its opposite, the office life that most of us live. 
PALLA PRIGIONIERA/Hermes Mangialardo (2019), 3’ In a playground a child tries to play with the other children trying in every way to catch the colored ball, symbol of integration with the community, but the ball gets farther and farther away. 
EDO/Lorenzo Tardella (2018), 6’40’’ It is a story about the end of summer, the season of light-heartedness that takes us from one place to another, making us become something other than what we were. For Edo it is the last day of childhood. 
BUONA FORTUNA/Alberto Brizioli (2018), 11’52’’ A university student approaches a stranger who is scratching some “Scratch cards”, to ask him for an interview on gambling. Their relationship turns out to be ambiguous, and the truth begins to fade. 
AVETE VISTO ANCHE VOI?/Fabio Galeotti (2018), 9’15’’ Inspired by La cena in Emmaus by Caravaggio, this work aims to slow down the look: the movements gradually change, leading to a thought of contact with the pictorial image. 
TANTE CARE COSE/David Fratini (2018), 15’ An elderly woman leaves her home to spy on her daughter, a tramp living on the street. The sad old lady takes refuge in the warmth and joy of her memories of youth. 
BUONAVISIONE/Edoardo Genzolini (2017), 8’10’’ This short homages “Fuori Orario”, a famous Italian TV program airing on Rai 3 through VHS recordings made from 2003 to 2017, edited in a way that reflects the visual unconscious of the author.