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EXT. NIGHT – ROME, MAR 23TH 2023

Il Varco Film Fund and Screenplay Awards

OFFICIAL SELECTION

ITALIAN SHORT SCREENPLAYS

Spietato

by Giada Bossi

 

2005. Evening, rural province of northern Italy.
The sexual initiation of Christian, sixteen-year-old, eccentric and exuberant, turns into a wild wolf hunt.

 

 

La Divisa

by Raffaele Salvaggiola

 

Ferruccio, 9, a member of the local band, spends his last days in his small southern Italian village before moving with his family north just as the band uniform is to be unveiled.

 

 

Acquapark

by Ilaria Pascazio, Gloria Motterelli

 

Marta’s summer becomes a time of formation.

 

 

Come le alici

by Valerio Maria Sessa

 

Salvatore returns home and must come to terms with what he left behind before he left.

ITALIAN FEATURE SCREENPLAYS

Nothing to see

by Giacomo Pierini

 

Emma, an architect in her forties, sits every summer day – when she has little work – at the same table in a Café in the center of Florence, Italy.

 

 

Elixir

by Nicholas Di Valerio

 

Living and working in New York City, Jonathan Tale is a next-to-be-forty amnesic screenwriter with a highly functional schizophrenia: it’s his curse, it’s his superpower and it’s his ticket for a mind-blowing ride that will question space, time and reality as he finds out that he might be unconsciously sowing clues about his forgotten past in everything he writes.

 

 

Conigli Neri

by Davide Angiuli

 

After abandoning Taranto and her environmental blog, Giulia moved to a commune lost in the frozen forests on the Austrian border.


We are no longer ourselves

by Danilo Ćuk

 

Strong at first, Jure’s muscles and nationalistic ardor fade in old age. Parable in which the lives of Teodora, her relatives and friends are grafted: men and women living the concentration camp of Jasenovac, the destruction of Vukovar, the siege of Sarajevo: places that appear with time jumps, connected by exchanges of letters, to land in an unknown Italian city.

INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCREENPLAYS

Azadeh

by Shahnam Sojoudizadeh

 

Azadeh, a beautiful and intelligent 13-year-old Afghan girl, is trafficked to Tajikestan (in the form of modern slavery) for work with several Afghan families.

 

 

 

Ayalagch

by Siyuan Xu, Jinshuai Zhang

 

Batel, a Mongolian man, is paid by a middleman to drive a van to somewhere near the Chinese-Mongolian border. His trip goes awry as he finds out what he is truly carrying…

 

 

 

Kabuk

by Hakan Ünal

 

The Shell is a stark yet realistic portrait of a woman on the edge of her bonds without the courage to save herself.

 

 

Sleeping Beauty

by Brunella Filì, Antonella Gaeta, Giuliana Altamura

 

Attilio, 58 years old, is an internationally renowned photographer who has been diagnosed with a terminal illness.

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCREENPLAYS

Witness 26

by Michele Gentile

 

Based on true events, WITNESS 26 tells the story of Malia, a former Congolese child soldier, who arrives at the city of The Hague as witness for a prosecution at the International Criminal Court.

 

 

Shampoo Horns

by Daniel Falcone

 

In 1995, twenty-year-old Dante arrives in New York City during a severe winter. He is a gentle soul, somewhat of a thief, and hopes to start a new life as an apprentice to a renown tattoo artist.

 

 

Roya

by Mahmoud Salimi

 

The forbidden love between two adolescents sparks a bloody feud between two Afghani families.

 

 

Driving a Stolen Car

by Ben Kujawski

 

Expecting their first child, Long Island couple Steven and Donna Marzec are quickly confronted by the harsh realities of their financial situation.

 

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