In an Arbëreshë community in Calabria, a young girl relives the memory of her mother’s depression. Through ritualistic gestures and heavy silences, she comes to realize that the adult world, despite its harshness and constant demand for resilience, hides a profound fragility and a yearning for intimacy.
A cinema graduate of Roma Tre University, Antonio La Camera trained at the Sentieri Selvaggi school and the "Fare Cinema" advanced course directed by Marco Bellocchio. With over 40 awards to his name, he gained international recognition at the 2023 Venice Critics' Week with Las Memorias Perdidas de los Árboles, created under the mentorship of Apichatpong Weerasethakul. After appearing at major Oscar/EFA/Goya qualifying festivals, he joined the 2025 Locarno Academy to direct Le Mur du Son. He is currently developing his debut feature, Demons & Dust, with Andrea Garofalo, producer of Waterlock Production.
Taranto Vecchia is an island in southern Italy where global and personal structures converge as if under a magnifying glass. In Madonnas, we discover this world through the eyes of 13-year-old Marta. She is growing up between her serious, pious mother and her deeply spiritual grandparents. When her free-spirited aunt comes to visit, new dimensions open up for the young girl. Her innocent gaze forces us to recognize the cruelty of the injustices to which we have become so easily accustomed.
Il Vollo della Falena (2024) is a short film by Nikola Lorenzin, selected for the 21st edition of the L'Europe autour de l'Europe festival.
Based in Rome, Nikola Lorenzin is a director and cinematographer, as well as a renewable energy engineer. Co-founder of the Santabelva collective, he gained recognition with his debut feature documentary, Corpo dei Giorni, which won Best Film at the 2022 Turin Film Festival. That same year, his film La Sal Negra, for which he handled both direction and cinematography, received the Lo Scrittoio Subtitles Award at the Visioni dal Mondo Festival. His cinema is characterized by a rigorous visual approach, shaped by his dual technical and artistic expertise.
A woman goes to her missing son's apartment to retrieve his cat, the only tenant left in the house. As she searches for the animal, she is confronted by the traces of a life that has vanished. In the silence of this suspended place, caught between emptiness and memories, something magical and unexpected might yet emerge.
Born in Bari in 1994, Giacomo Scoditti holds a law degree specializing in film financing. He refined his craft at the Luchino Visconti Civic School and later specialized in directing at the CSC (Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia) in Milan. After establishing himself in music videos, corporate communication, and as an assistant director, he transitioned into filmmaking. Son, produced by Nichel Film, is his second short film—a work that explores the persistence of memory within physical spaces.
Born in Naples in 1979, Adam Selo is a director, producer, and distributor. As the founder of Elenfant Film (2004) and Sayonara Film (2016), he has spent fifteen years on the international circuit, earning recognition at prestigious festivals including Venice (Critics' Week), Clermont-Ferrand, Oberhausen, Giffoni, and TIFF (Toronto). Alongside his creative practice, he shares his expertise as a professor of filmmaking at the University of Bologna.
Born in Naples in 1979, Adam Selo is a director, producer, and distributor. As the founder of Elenfant Film (2004) and Sayonara Film (2016), he has spent fifteen years on the international circuit, earning recognition at prestigious festivals including Venice (Critics' Week), Clermont-Ferrand, Oberhausen, Giffoni, and TIFF (Toronto). Alongside his creative practice, he shares his expertise as a professor of filmmaking at the University of Bologna.
