Onde Corte - (Slot 1)

Synopsis

Shortfilms:

Joy of Joys (proiezione speciale), Jonathan Glazer; UK; 38’
Synopsis: Musicians gather at the legendary Abbey Road Studios to record HELP, a star-studded charity album supporting War Child Records’ mission to aid children impacted by conflict around the globe.

City of Owls, Zhenia Kazankina; France, Italy, Germany; 13’51’’
Synopsis: On the last evening before her departure, Vera decides to tell a bedtime fairy tale to her small sister to hide the real reason of her leaving.

Uno è un bastone, Giada Cicchetti, Agnese Rizzari; Italy; 19’47’’
Synopsis: A nursery rhyme for learning to write numbers in Arabic becomes the key to entering the archive of Monica Maurer. Through her encounter with Rima, a Palestinian woman who preserves the memories and gestures of her own history, the two filmmakers approach a fragile and precious body of material. Moving between play, testimony, and archive, the film questions the very act of looking, from images of the past to those of the present.

Quattordici, Maira Tersigni; Italy; 17’55’’
Synopsis: “Quattordici” tells the fragmented return to a childhood suspended between play and tragedy, where memory becomes distorted under the gaze of the present. Through four sisters immersed in a landscape both luminous and threatening, the film explores loss through a child’s perspective and the impossibility of reconstructing the past as it once was.

A Hundred Thieves, Giada Bossi; Italia, Spagna; 9’22’’
Synopsis: In a landscape consumed by fog, a reluctant brother takes his stubborn sister in search of their missing mother one last time.