Onde Corte - (Slot 6)

Synopsis

Shortfilms:

Il ritorno, Francesca Comencini; Italy; 24’
Synopsis: Tania returns to her hometown, finding a reality suspended between memories and the hardships of the present. While reconnecting with her lifelong friends, she discovers that her mother—who suffers from a gambling addiction—has sold the family home to Giuseppe, a former classmate turned cynical businessman. Tania remains steadfast, finding solace only in her first love, Giacomo, to whom she confides that she is pregnant. After a final gesture of affection toward her mother, Tania leaves at dawn, taking with her a small clothespin—a gift from her friends symbolizing her roots and the strength to face the future.

Dente di cinghiale, Rebecca Cervato; Italy; 17’
Synopsis: Dente is a 75-year-old hunter who hasn't been able to catch anything for a long time. However, he receives a request for help from Maria, whose vegetable garden is being destroyed by wild boars. Excited by the mission, he immediately goes to Maria's place and confides in her that he has known that area since he was young. Yet, he discovers there are no tracks in the woods and thinks his friends are playing a trick on him. But Maria holds a far more important secret regarding Dente's past.

J. Shakespeare, Karin Proia; Italy; 15’58’’
Synopsis: "What if Shakespeare had had a sister? As clever as he, as talented as he, but a woman?" Virginia Woolf begins to recount her feminist commitment in this way, setting down for a moment the pen that flows in the privacy of her study to speak in public before the students of the Cambridge women's college.

Cose che capitano ai vivi, Angela Norelli; Italy; 18’
Synopsis: Elide is an elderly, lonely former ballet dancer. On the phone with her friend Priscilla, she spins all kinds of wild stories, but the truth is she never leaves the house. When someone knocks relentlessly and blocks the peephole, the web of illusions protecting her begins to crack.