Festival Cinematografico
Internazionale

5° Edizione – 19, 20 e 21 Settembre 2024
SAN GIMIGNANO – TUSCANY – ITALY

Festival Cinematografico
Internazionale

5° Edizione – 19, 20 e 21 Settembre 2024
SAN GIMIGNANO
TUSCANY – ITALY

Concorso Ufficiale
della 5° Edizione 2024

19 Settembre Colle di Val d’Elsa, dalle ore 16:00
Saloncino del Teatro del Popolo

20 e 21 Settembre San Gimignano, dalle ore 21:00
Arena Cinema La Rocca

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Tre Ragazzi

Director: Gianfranco Boattini
Country of origin: Italy
Length: 19.59
Plot: Bertinoro, 1972. Thirteen-year-old friends Carmelo, Michele and Salvatore, run away from home towards Ravenna, with the hope of boarding a ship that will take them to America.

La neve coprirà tutte le cose

Director: Daniele Babbo
Country of origin: Italy
Length: 00.00
Plot: In a whirlwind of conflicting emotions, a couple struggles to find a balance while waiting for an outcome that could change their lives.

Spectacular

Director: Virginia Yellow
Country of origin: Italy
Length: 20:00
Plot: Edgar is a mime who performs daily in the street, trying unsuccessfully to attract the attention of passers-by with his art.

Rasti

Director: Paolo Bonfadini e Davide Morando
Country of origin: Italy
Length: 15:00
Plot: Anna is growing up. She’s just turned 7-years-old. Stefano, and Margherita, want to surprise her, teaming up while a series of unexpected events happen.

5/3/0

Director: Danilo Stanimirović
Country of origin: Serbia
Length: 15.00
Plot: During the night, a teenage girl is taking a taxi ride to the neighboring town.

Loveu2cb

Director: Sami Schinaia
Country of origin: Italy
Length: 10:31
Plot: The short film is about a boy and the long-awaited night of a famous DJ. The consumption of 2CB will take him to the peak of the trip, and what we will experience will be his – far from lucid – point of view.

Via delle rose 36

Director: Kristian Xipolias
Country of origin: Italy
Length: 14:59
Plot: Corviale, Rome. Rita is a young mother working as a farmer. Tired of his lonely life and terrorized of her uncertain future, she begins to dream of a better life thanks to a meeting with a Mental Coach.

Dusty
Director: Jeremy Lindsay Taylor
Country of origin: Australia
Length: 16:30
Plot: DUSTY is an ambitious dark comedy that explores the toxic side of grief. After the death of his best friend, we follow Dustin on a grief-induced bender for one.

Prova d’amore
Director: Denis Nazzari
Country of origin: Italy
Length: 11:48
Plot: PROOF OF LOVE is a short film that tells the story of Gigi, a man of mature age, who one day decides to live the daily life of his partner suffering from a motor disability and confined to a wheelchair

7LBS 8OZ

Director: Yoo Lee
Country of origin: United States
Length: 7:08
Plot: When a young mother moves into a Jersey City neighborhood full of long-time residents, her preconceptions are challenged by a new neighbor who shows her the value of community.

As easy as closing your eyes

Director: Parker Croft
Country of origin: United States
Length: 21:43
Plot: The story of a grieving mother who battles her addiction to a black-market drug that gives her life-like dreams about the son she lost.

Don’t even know you

Director: Anna Volosnik
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Length: 17:00
Plot: An ambitious postgrad student’s life is going perfectly according to plan, but something’s missing.

Mayday

Director: Simone D’Alessandro
Country of origin: Italy
Length: 10:00
Plot: A mother lives alone in a house in the countryside with her eight-year-old son. To defend him from an external threat, she creates a parallel world.

Le gemelle eternalismo

Director: Francesco Therese
Country of origin: Italy
Length: 3.00
Plot: The Twins Eternalism is the story of two twins during the 60’s. One of them lives on the Earth, the other one floats in space as an astronaut.

Ciao Ma’

Director: Carlo Montanari
Country of origin: Italy
Length: 14.00
Plot: Libero returns home, and finds his mother in the living room. A bare, empty, or rather emptied, living room. There are boxes full of objects, dust on the furniture and sheets on the sofas.

Fifty four days

Director: Cat White Phoebe Torrance
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Length: 17:20
Plot: When tragedy strikes, a spirited young woman turns to wild swimming in search of answers.

The Comeback

Director: Anatoly Sergeev
Country of origin: Russian Federation
Length: 17:00
Plot: It has been a long time since Andrey last visited his birthplace, so he decides to see his grandparents. Halfway there his car breaks down, and Andrey sets off on a foot journey through places he does not recognize.

G.R.A.

Director: Luca Pelosi
Country of origin: Italy
Length: 11:00
Plot: A man in his eighties, elegantly dressed and holding a splendid bouquet of red roses, is impassive in front of the front door waiting for his wife to come down and join him.

Consider the lilies

Director: Cristina Spina
Country of origin: United States – Italy
Length: 23:04
Plot: A woman, probably homeless, enters the Open House of an expensive Brooklyn apartment. Struck by the space that surrounds her, she gets emotional and steals a pair of keys.

A piedi nudi

Director: Luca Esposito
Country of origin: Italy
Length: 16:00
Plot: Poverty and class inequality retraces the story of a simple boy seeking a better future.

Cicle

Director: Naz Caybasi
Country of origin: Turkey
Length: 10:38
Plot: One day, a girl living in a village sees blood on her panties. She’s having menstruation, but she doesn’t know what it is.