ITALY / 10 MIN / 2021 / FICTION / HD / 16:9 / STEREO / COLOR
Subtitles available: English, Italian, Spanish
A woman secretly sneaks into the house where her ex-boyfriend lives, once the home of both of them. As if it were a ritual, she enjoys for the last time that place, she regains possession of it, trying to overcome the pain it evokes. And eventually, she succeeds, in her own way, with a token gesture on the edge of revenge. An intimate story that narrates Matilde’s wound through the house metaphor: nest-place, the concretization of lost love.
Una donna si introduce di nascosto nella casa dove vive il suo ex compagno, un tempo casa di entrambi. Come fosse un rito si gode un’ultima volta quel luogo, se ne riappropria, cercando di superare il dolore che evoca. E alla fine ci riesce, a modo suo, con un gesto simbolico sul filo della vendetta.
Una storia intimista che narra la ferita di Matilde attraverso la metafora della casa: luogo-nido, concretizzazione dell’amore perduto.
Una mujer entra a escondidas en la casa donde vive su ex, y que tiempo atrás era de los dos. Como una especie de rito, disfruta una última vez de ese lugar, se lo apropia, tratando de superar el dolor que este evoca. Finalmente lo logra, a modo suyo, con un gesto simbolico que roza la venganza.
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Festival & Awards
- RIFF – Rome Independent Film Festival (Italy, 2021) – World Premiere
- Valsusa Filmfest (Italy, 2022)
- River Film Festival (Italy, 2022) – winner Best Italian Short Film (Ex Aequo)
- Amicorti International Film Festival (Italy, 2022)
- BCT – Festival Nazionale del Cinema e della Televisione (Italy, 2022)
- Pop Corn Festival del Corto (Italy, 2022)
- SanGio Verona Video Festival (Italy, 2022)
- Molise Cinema Film Festival (Italy, 2022)
- BioPic Short Fest (Italy, 2022)
- Longless Film Festival (Italy, 2022) – Best Short Film
- Timeline Film Festival (Italy, 2022)
- DEA Open Air International Film Festival (Albania, 2022)
- Festival Internacional de Cine de Iquique (Chile, 2022) – winner Best Short Film
- Festival du Cinéma Européen de Lille (France, 2022)
- Festival du Film Court en plein air de Grenoble (France, 2022)
- Love Vidéo III – Brigade des Images (France, 2022)
- Rec Film Festival Berlin (Germany, 2022)
- 5th Demakijaż – Women’s Film Festival (Poland, 2022)
- Busan Inter-City Film Festival (South Korea, 2022)
- Festival de Cine de Alicante (Spain, 2022)
- 20th International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival on Wheels (Turkey, 2022)
- Los Angeles, Italia Film Festival (USA, 2022)
- Emberlight International Film Festival (USA, 2022) – winner Best Cinematography
Interviews and Reviews
- Veronica Ranocchi for TaxiDrivers Magazine: ‘Acqua che scorre non porta veleno’ una storia di amore e vendetta.
- Stefania Covella for Fabrique du Cinema: ‘Quando finisce un amore’
cast
Emilia Scarpati Fanetti, Luca Mammoli, Maria Laura Moraci
directed by
Letizia Zatti
written by
Noemi Punelli, Letizia Zatti
produced by
Maria Laura Moraci and crowdfunding Produzioni dal Basso
executive producers
Carolina Torre, Martina Bove
1st AD
Leonardo Oliani
cinematography by
Eleonora Castiello
art director
Silvia Finesso
costumes by
Elena Guardiani
make up by
Giulia Bartolucci
film editing by
Davide Morando
sound design by
Alberto Vismara
original music by
Alberto Vismara
distribution and world sales by
Letizia Zatti's bio
Letizia was born in Monza in 1997 but grows up in Bergamo (Italy). In 2017 she studied at Civica di Cinema Luchino Visconti in Milan, where she moves and begins to work as assistand director and backstage on advertising and films between Milan and Rome. She was part of the direction crew of films like ‘Amici come prima’, ‘Robbing Mussolini’ and made backstage videos of ‘10 giorni con Babbo Natale’, ‘A classic Horror Story’, and ‘7 donne’. She likes to experiment with the cinematic language and made a video clip ‘Diana’ and a short experimental film during quarantine called ‘28/03/2020’. Acqua che scorre non porta veleno is her first short film.