The Usual Things
Director – Luigi Pane
(Italy)
Duration – 13:00
Rome. An Italian middle-class family, during lunch, talks about the problems that afflict our nation. And Lili, an energetic and intelligent teenager, harshly criticizes her father’s generation for leaving them a world worse than the one they had, made up of a rather difficult present, of total lack of faith in the future, dangerously rampant populism and racism, an uncertain political guide, an idea of Europe far from the initial one. Rather known issues. But not everything is as it seems.
Nameless
Director – Gisella Gobbi
(Italy)
Duration – 10:00
An ordinary school day told through the eyes of a seven-year-old boy: made up of games, school classes, happy meals, and the walk back to home. An ordinary day that vanishes into the blue, like the denied dream of the young protagonist.
Breathe
Director – Lele Nucera
(Italy)
Duration – 13:00
After the loss of his mother and with an unreliable father, Leo will make sense of his own existence.
Capitan Didier
Director – Margherita Ferri
(Italy)
Duration – 15:00
Didier is a child from sub-Saharan Africa, who dreams of building his own boat with pizza boxes. Amir, his father, works as a driver at Franca’s pizza place. Every evening, he brings home one box to add to his son’s masterpiece, but one day, as Amir is out delivering food, a storm destroys Didier’s paper boat.
Tropicana
Director – Francesco Romano
(Italy)
Duration – 13:00
Maicol is 8 years old. He lives with his father Valerio and his mother Giusy in Trullo, a popular district in the periphery of Rome. Both his parents are very young and he has a great complicity with his father. They spend a lot of time together playing PlayStation and having fun with his father’s friends. At some point, Maicol receives some money to buy his favorite’s team shirt as a present for his school promotion. This event and its consequences will bring in discussions and eventually change the relationship between the two.
One by one
Director – Valerio Gnesini
(Italy)
Duration – 10:00
An old man drives away with a little girl: it’s just the beginning of a story that touches the deepest sensibility and pushes ourselves to look inside.
Wavesland
Director – Francesco Lorusso
(Italy)
Duration – 15:00
In Italy’s deep South there is a place where, on clear days, you can get a glimpse of the Greek mountains of Othonoi Island from across the sea. Here, in the hot summer, five kids fall off a cliff into the sea during a big storm and the oldest, Pati, gets lost among the waves. Days later, the town’s adults decide to call off the search. The kids, however, do not give up and, certain that their friend managed to reach the Greek coast, they build a CB radio in the wreck of an old car to contact him. After many attempts, amidst the radio waves and the voices of their hope, they are finally able to detect their friend’s distorted whistling, and a Greek voice calling to them: – “Onda ranne” (“The big wave”) can you hear me?