Catalogue of short films
in distribution

(Lo Smemorato di Novello)

Italy, 2024 / 10′

a film by
Bruno Ugioli, Domenico Bruzzese, Mauro Mola

Novello, a small town in the Langhe region, is famous because its citizens have the best memory in Italy. A young woman decides to bring there her elderly father, who suffers from amnesia, not because she believes in Novello’s “miracle”, but because the man was actually born there, and she hopes that he can heal by retracing his past.

Greece, 2025 / 17′

a film by
Kat Sigalas

A queer Greek woman returns home after her father’s sudden death, only to find herself trapped between the life she built in London, the weight of her family’s legacy, and a dark presence within the house that refuses to let her go.

( LA RICERCA )

Italy, 2025 / 20′

a film by
Stefano Scala & Simone Arcidiacono

In the near future, where water is more valuable than gold, the seeker embarks on an extreme journey through a barren and hostile landscape. Her mission: to find enough water to save her sick elderly aunt. But when survival is at stake, how far is one willing to go?

Italy, 2025 / 7′

a film by
Mirko Decandia

In the refined Absolutio Restaurant, among the aromas and flavors of gourmet cuisine, a wealthy couple enjoys an apparently perfect dinner. Normality vanishes when disturbing details reveal a dark ritual.

( Le cicogne di Chernobyl )

Italy, 2025 / 40′

a film by
Karim Galici

Hundreds of thousands of children from areas contaminated by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster found hospitality in Italy thanks to the “Solidarity Reception Projects.” Some of the protagonists look back on that experience, which changed their lives. Stories sometimes marked by pain but later transformed into hope by the love of families who opened their hearts and homes.

( Variazioni fantastiche su eventi realmente accaduti a Torino nel 1911 )

Italy, 2025 / 20′

a film by
Giulio Maria Cavallini

A double showdown looms over Emilio Salgari: the exhaustion of his creativity and the realization that he has destroyed his wife Ida’s life.

( Pasaka kaip gyvenimas )

Lithuania, 2025 / 18′

a film by
Rinaldas Tomaševičius

A homeless family’s makeshift home is threatened when the rightful owner returns to reclaim it.

( Po Fentanilio )

Lithuania, 2025 / 20′

a film by
Rinaldas Tomaševičius

After years of drug use a film director tries to save at least one street addict and captures it on camera.

( Paslaptis )

Lithuania, 2024 / 15′

a film by
Kęstutis Drazdauskas

Jule comes to think that Santa, to whom she and her friend Aida wrote letters, does not exist. Despite feeling disappointed, Jule decides to keep this secret from Aida so as not to shatter her friend’s innocent belief.

( Di Marketing e Miracoli )

Italy, 2024 / 15′

a film by
Serena Lazzaro

When the Catholic Church’s approval rating drops dramatically, a visionary marketing manager searches for innovative ideas to resolve the situation.

( Artimas Kontaktas )

Lithuania, 2025 / 19′

a film by
Augustė Gerikaitė

After discovering a brutally beaten drag queen Klaudijus, in his apartment building, homophobe Rolandas reluctantly takes him to the hospital and becomes his first response.
As the police investigate and Klaudijus’ life hangs in the balance, Rolandas is forced to rethink his beliefs.

( IL TEMPO NASCOSTO )

Italy, 2024 / 9′

a film by
Giovanni Soldi

A man returns to the place of his childhood, where he remembers a significant episode, there, in a hole, he had hidden ten thousand years. Now, in old age, he realizes the paradox of that game, the impossibility of hiding time.

( Latte e Biscotti )

Italy, 2024 / 22′

a film by
Sabrina La Macchia

After an episode of sexual violence, Ester finds the courage to tell her story by writing a play based on the tale of Little Red Riding Hood.

Italy, 2024 / 30′

a film by
Maria Gorgoglione

Teo is trying to compose a melody but has been stuck on the same note for too long. Letizia and a blurred Presence will impose themselves in his isolation, forcing him to trace the roots of his ennui.

( FORMICHE )

Italy, 2024 / 15′

a film by
Andrea Aglieri

A man under house arrest is prey to boredom and apathy even though the woman who takes care of him doesn’t let him miss anything. When she has to be away due to mouring, the man is forced to take action in some way.

Italy, 2024 / 14′

a film by
Alessandro Navarino

A little boy named Alex is constantly seeking approval and attention from his parents, who are too busy arguing with each other to look after him. When Alex starts listening to music through headphones, ignites his imagination and he enters an imaginary and utopian world.

( ARROCCO )

Italy, 2024 / 10′

a film by
Federico Yang

The solitude of a young hermit is disrupted by dreams of intimacy and an awkward appointment. 

Iran, 2024 / 23′

a film by
Mohamad Yaraghi

Hana is a poor girl, motherless and forced by her father to work as a peddler at a traffic light. She has a dream, but a tragic event sweeps away her hopes.

(Como hojas por el viento)

Spain, 2023 / 11′

a film by
Sofia Luz

Two transgender women who migrate from their home countries seeking asylum and opportunities in a new continent. Their lives go through structural changes when they meet and take part in a new support network. Made by them for them.

(Diario de Cecilia)

Argentina, 2024 / 23′

a film by
Valérie Loewensberg

Cecilia is isolated in a psychiatric hospital. She dreams of a place where the snow burns her skin and where she can find her lost love, Philippe. When the psychiatrist, with her mother’s approval, decides to extend her confinement, Cecilia hatches an escape plan.

Canada, 2024 / 15′

a film by
Anubhav Singh

Amidst the pandemic, the Baig sisters, Nur and Zainab, navigate a challenging family situation. Their father, Umar, plagued by schizophrenia after the demise of their mother Abida, lives in a hallucinatory world where Abida is still alive. On the anniversary of Abida’s demise, Umar’s condition spirals into panic attack and what follows next is a turn of unfortunate events.

( L’abraccio rubato )

Italy, 2024 / 10′

a film by
Simone Gazzola

Febe, a new-mom artist, is stuck at home, disconnected from reality.
Not even the phone call of her husband and the crying coming from the cradle seem to wake her up.

Iran – Canada – Turkey, 2024 / 26′

a film by
Mohamad Kamal Alavi

Neda is preparing for an artistic performance related to the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement. Her father has an important job interview in the government office. The success of that interview depends on Neda’s behavior.

Iran – UAE, 2024 / 15′

a film by
Fatemeh Fereydoun

In the middle of the protests in Tehran, Saba is going to leave Iran to reach his mother abroad. The relationship between Saba and a girl makes everything complicated.

Italy 2024 / 10′

a film by
Luca Canali

Just graduated, Laura works as an usher in her mother’s theatre. The razor blade is her only companion. As she faces her dreaded control round; she discovers that she is not as alone as she thought.

Italy 2023 / 20′

a film by
Maria Antonietta Mariani

Gaia, Nina, Teresa and Virginia are artists of the cultural scene of Rome. Signs, objects and relationships animate the creative process and the works. The interweaving of emotions and experiences of the protagonists returns a story poised between realism and magical thinking.

Italy 2023 / 12′

a film by
Gabriele Brundu

An event disrupts the life of Andrea, a 9-year-old boy, forcing him to put a strain on his childhood. With the help of his parents, young Andrea moves lightly in the world of adults to restore broken balances.

Iran 2024 / 15′

a film by
Neshat Shabani

An old woman lives in a nursing home, she used to be a famous singer and now she has Alzheimer. This woman has forgotten that she was a star one day, and she suffers every time by recalling past memories. The nurse who take care of her finds similarities between her own life and this woman.

a film by
Angelo Giordano

In a small town in the south of Italy, the new mayor has canceled an ancient recurrence. Tommaso, a bizarre man worried by the disastrous consequences that this decision could bring, tries to change his mind.

a film by
Mehrshad Golkarian

Fatemeh, a 14-year-old girl with a birthmark on her left breast, is being forced by her father to marry a suitor at such young age. Being dissatisfied with this, she orchestrates a daring action to prevent this early marriage.

a film by
Andrea Baglio

1945. Three Italians are running away from a handful of Yugoslav militiamen seeking revenge for the oppression they suffered during the Fascist period. Alma, a girl of nowadays, sees her present intertwined with the painful past of the protagonists.

Italy 2024 / 7′

a film by
Riccardo Menicatti, Bruno Ugioli

From heaven, a father manages to video-call his son.