The finalist works of the Buona La Prima! competition in collaboration with SIAE
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Italy, 2024, 16’, col. – WORLD PREMIERE
Director: Federico Giovanni Sardi de Letto
Screenplay: Federico Giovanni Sardi de Letto
Cinematography: Bernardo Massaccesi
Film Editing: Luca Armocida
Music: Tony Neiman
Cast: Federico Giovanni Sardi De Letto, Elisabetta De Vito, Romano Talevi, Michele “Pal” Medugno, Eleonora Sardi De Letto
SYNOPSIS
Una giornata particolare di un giovane ventiduenne, tra affetti familiari, lutti non elaborati e velleità rivoluzionarie. 22 è il suo giorno di nascita come pure quello del padre che non va a trovare da 11 anni, e 11 sono gli anni di vita del gatto Ginger, appena deceduto, le cui ceneri potrebbero essere utilizzate come innesco per far esplodere una misteriosa struttura luminosa apparsa nella città.
COME NEI RAMI LA PIOGGIA
Italy, 2024, 17’, col.
Director: Yuri Casagrande Conti
Screenplay: Yuri Casagrande Conti
Cinematography: Antonio Morra
Film Editing: Guglielmo Trupia
Cast: Yuri Casagrande Conti, Theo Damiani
SYNOPSIS
Lucio has written an essay about his father, but when he is forced to show it to him he is overcome by fear that those words might hurt him.
CORPO UNICO
Italy, 2023, 18’, col.
Director: Mia Benedetto
Screenplay: Mia Benedetto
Cinematography: Stefano Salemme
Film Editing: Aline Myriem Christine Hervé
Music: Giulia Taviani, Carmelo Travia
Cast: Vittoria Puccini, Iaia Forte, Linda Caridi, Andrea Lattanzi, Francesco Colella, Francesco Bolo Rossini
SYNOPSIS
In a dystopian present/future, women are extinct. It’s a world of hunting men, where even the memory of the femicides committed by them is punished. The three male protagonists are locked up in a closed space because they’re “infected” by memory. It’s a punishment by retaliation.
DROP
Italy, 2024, 3’, col.
Director: Claudio Quattrone
Screenplay: Claudio Quattrone
Art Direction: Caterina Grimaldi
Music: David Sabiu
Animation: CTRLZ LAB, Aurora Verniani, Federico Strarinieri
SYNOPSIS
A raindrop, scared of having to fall from the sky, will be able to find the courage to face the void and get to know itself.
FAME
Italy, 2024, 20’, col.
Director: Matteo Ducceschi
Screenplay: Matteo Ducceschi
Cinematography: Pierluigi Chira Velasquez
Film Editing: Andrea Donda
Music: Diego Guarnieri
Cast: Adriana Papana, Michael Moses Dodi, Eugenio Krilov, Alice Fazzi
SYNOPSIS
While visiting the location of their future marriage, two famous influencers encounter an unsettling priest, who puts their relation and their survival to the test.
HUMAN EXPERIENCE
Italy, 2023, 14’, col.
Director: Gaia Troisi
Screenplay: Gaia Troisi
Cinematography: Vincenzo D’Elia
Film Editing: Gaia Troisi, Vincenzo D’Elia
Music: Francesco Faggiano
Cast: Arturo Lissa
SYNOPSIS
Lorenzo is a boy who suffers from athelofobia and psychological pressure pushes him into looking obsessively for a job. Although he goes to therapy, as suggested by his psychologist, he will choose the way he finds more simple to obtain some relief.
MIO BABBO E’ SUPERMAN
Italy, 2023, 18’, col.
Director: Giommaria D’Angelo
Screenplay: Giommaria D’Angelo
Cinematography: Mario Delriu
Film Editing: Giommaria D’Angelo
Music: Concesse: Psycho Therapy, Corale Canepa Sassari, Francesco Pilu, Angelo Pelini
Cast: Franco Corda, Francesco Sanna, Daniela Cossu, Sara Demontis
SYNOPSIS
Muros, end of the 80s. Antonio is the son of Bobore (the village’s drunkard) and Giovanna. Maria is their neighbor, a bigot school teacher. Maria hates Bobore and everything he represents, an old and obsolete world from which she feels she has nothing to do with. As a consequence, she also hates Antonio and she always tries to embarrass him in front of his classmates. Because of his alcohol addiction, Bobore eventually dies. Although Antonio is aware of who his father was, he writes a completely idealized essay about him. Giovanna will teach Maria a lesson in the form of an insult.
MUSINTASIA
Italy, 2024, 14’, col.
Director: Alessandro Navarino
Screenplay: Alessandro Navarino
Cinematography: Alessandro Navarino
Film Editing: Alessandro Navarino
Music: Nicole Riso, Giovanni Puozzi
Cast: Stefano Bianchini, Alessia Cerutti, Alessandro Navarino
SYNOPSIS
A boy named Alex is constantly seeking acceptance and attention from his parents, who are too busy fighting each other to look after him. However, when Alex starts listening to music and his imagination is activated, he enters a utopian world where his parents give him the love he has always wanted. At least there, they’re really a united family.
SOMEWHERE AMONG THE WAVES
Italy, 2024, 9’, col.
Director: Iaien Jason Manalansan
Screenplay: Iaien Jason Manalansan
Cinematography: Iaien Jason Manalansan
Film Editing: Iaien Jason Manalansan
Music: Cecilia Riemer
Cast: Iaien Jason Manalansan
SYNOPSIS
Giulietta is a 16 years-old girl and daughter of a single mother. One morning, tired of her mother’s abuse and the hard psychological pressure she’s subjected to, she runs away to her grandmother’s house by the sea. This will lead her to find a diary and traces about her past, which will make change her view about her family and think about her feelings towards her mother.
SUL BRIC MINDINO NON C’É NESSUN PINO
Italy, 2023, 12’, col.
Director: Lorenzo Bussone
Screenplay: Lorenzo Bussone
Cinematography: Lorenzo Bussone
Film Editing: Simone Dosio
Music: Manuel di Pierro
Cast: Roberto Gentile, Samuele Gentile, Gioele Gentile
SYNOPSIS
After a long day of jokes, two goblins decide to plant a pine at the foot of Mount Bric Mindino. Fifty years later, they realize they have become the victims of a “reinforced concrete-made” joke. A powerful “psycho-cat” will help them plan their revenge. Will they be able to save their pine? At what cost?
