ITALIAN SHORT SCREENPLAYS
Gethsemane
by Giovanni Maria Troia
On the last day of summer, Paul decides to declare himself to his summer crush. His friend Antonio decides to help him.
Moonlike
by Francesco Lorusso, Patrizia Manconi
In an almost uninhabited village the Moon falls into nothingness. Berto the papier-mâché maker secretly builds a fake Moon to restore hope to his town: it seems exactly identical to the previous one.
Alfio, dove stai andando?
by Matteo Damiani
Alfio is a 70-year-old fisherman who, one night, falls asleep on his boat and is carried out to sea. He will awaken on the shore of an unknown country. From there, a series of encounters will take him even further, eventually reaching the Bering Strait…
Mangiami
by Silvia Lettieri Lauro
Sofia, a young woman devastated by the end of a relationship, loses herself in a ritual of emotional and culinary alchemy.
ITALIAN FEATURE SCREENPLAYS
Malanoctem
by Lara Celenza
A girl with no memories, afflicted by a rare blood disorder, visits a medieval castle with her friends to create a Halloween vlog. The centuries-old horror lurking in Malanoctem awakens the darkest secrets of her mind and the monsters hidden among the people she loves.
Un uomo migliore
by Claudio Rugiero
After four years, Tahir, a thirty-four-year-old of Turkish origin, is released from prison, where he was detained for aggravated assault. He has no money and nowhere to go. Desperately seeking to reintegrate, he starts from scratch, beginning with the search for a job.
Before Going Away
by Agostino Devastato
Giuliano, who tragically died as a teenager, remains trapped as a ghost in the places of his former life, haunted by his love for Cinzia, who has since moved on.
Le strade bianche
by Michele Iovine
Two police officers, two friends but now leading different and distant lives, are called back to duty in Tuscany to try to solve an old, unsolved case that had cost them both their careers. At the bottom of an artificial lake, six bodies were discovered—individuals who had disappeared without a trace years earlier, and about whom no one knew anything anymore.
INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCREENPLAYS
Pampero
by Gabriela Nafissi
When her mother leaves to care for her sick grandfather and her father becomes obsessed with buying a boat, a young Argentine girl comes to realize that her parents have inner lives she will never fully understand.
Saturn
by Fernando Fibla Moliner, Pau Garcia Guzmán
When a man inherits his mother’s house, he discovers she’s been reincarnated as the family cat, forcing him into a twisted, darkly comedic confrontation with her lingering presence, ultimately leading to an unsettling climax as he grapples with unresolved family bonds.
Mabel
by Irlanda Martinez
A horrified teenage girl must face her corrupted humanness to survive when is cornered in a forsaken place.
Toda una vida
by Maria Camila Pineda
Sabrina, a 5-year-old Colombian girl, along with her mother, Angela, move to Spain. Sabrina doesn’t understand the reason for this sudden trip. Her mother convinces her by promising her a meeting with her father.
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCREENPLAYS
Blue Danube
by Tom Allen
When Alex is hit by a car and suffers a head injury causing amnesia, he is taken into the care of a socially awkward young woman called Clare, who develops an attachment to him.
Stay With Me
by Pozsgai Zsolt
The script is based on a true story: in 2021, a van carrying migrants was chased by police near the southern border, crashed into a pole and then a tree. Neither the driver, who was working with the smugglers, nor the African refugees crammed into the cargo hold survived the collision.
For Everyone, Everything
by Patrick Ross
A young Mexican-American woman in Los Angeles, a talkative beetle, and Zapatista rebels in Chiapas, Mexico, struggle against the social injustices of capitalism.
Direct Action
by Tor Kristoffersen
A teenage environmentalist leads a protest against a coal mine, setting her on a collision course with her father, the police and courts.