2004 Short Movies

Racconto di guerra

In a Sarajevo traumatised by the war, a group of paramilitaries use children who have no homes or families for ransack the buildings just bombed. In exchange they let them live in a old factory. In exchange they are fed. In exchange they don’t kill them. Continua >

Regalo di Natale

Natale would like to send a video-message to his daughter who has emigrated to America. While getting ready to record, the video camera disappears… Continua >

Rosso fango

Paolo Ameli was born in Genoa 32 years ago. After completing studies in architecture he works as art director for various publicity agencies in Genoa. In 1998 he moves to Milan where he starts his collaboration with Mercurio Cinematografica as assistant to production, producer and director… Continua >

Small avalanches

Linda is 12 and she is bored. It seems to her that nothing matters and nothing ever really happens. But on this day she meets an older man. Linda is amused, even exhilarated by their seemingly innocent encounter. But things take a disturbing turn, and Linda’s world is transformed forever. Based on a short story by Joyce Carol Oates. Continua >

Vacances

A couple with a child, happy at first sight, sets out on a journey whose goal and destination remain unknown for the viewer. Later on in the course of the trip there is a car accident and the man dies. The woman and her daughter continue on their way together. Suddenly it becomes clear that the story keeps repeating itself. Continua >

L’orizzonte degli eventi

A man is looking for his brother in all the places which he could think to find him. But sometimes those near, are far away from us… Continua >

L’uomo più buono del mondo

Danilo Conti, nicknamed “most good man in the world”, receives as a prize a bomb which is fixed to his wrist: he has 8 minutes time to run to the other side of town to defuse it. But the streets are full of people in need of help, and Danilo is the most good man in the world… Continua >

L.City

L.City wants to be a visual poem about a lost love in a lost town. It is a film based on emotions, where exterior atmospheres, time and sound reflect interior states of mind, with the typical separated structure and not linear as in dreams. L.City has been made with picture pieces and… Continua >

Le bout des doigts

Martin is selected to recite a poem at the school fair. His father is whole heartedly involved… Continua >

My zivjom na kraju

A village on a steep riverside, eroded nearly symbolically by the river. The conditions of the houses deteriorate every day and the village is less populated. The youngsters leave the town, the old people die. The middle age are forced to work hard to survive… Continua >