ITALY / 15 MIN / 2022 / FICTION / DCP 2K / 2.35:1 / 5.1 / COLOR
Subtitles available: English, Italian, Spanish
A father faces the death of his nine years old daughter. It will be through music, his passion and bond between them, that he learns how to live with the pain of loss.
Un padre deve affrontare la morte della figlia di nove anni. Sarà attraverso la musica, sua passione e legame tra i due, che imparerà a convivere con il dolore della perdita.
Festivals & Awards
I-Fest (Italy 2022) – Best Original Soundscore
Aprilia Film Festival (Italy, 2023) – Best Original Soundscore
Festival Internacional de Música de Cine de Tenerife (Spain, 2022) – Best Original Song
Giffoni Youth Macedonia (Macedonia, 2022) – Best Short Film Cadets
The Meihodo Youth Media Festival (Japan, 2023) – Silver Prize Best Music-Themed Video
Corto Dino (Italy, 2022)
Festival del Cinema di Castel Volturno (Italy, 2022)
Asti International Film Festival (Italy, 2022)
Roma Film Corto (Italy, 2022)
Corte dei Corti Film Festival (Italy, 2023)
Corto Cultural Classic (Italy, 2023)
Benevento Cinema e TV Film Festival (Italy, 2023)
Falvaterra Film Festival (Italy, 2023)
Sicily International Short League (Italy, 2023)
Dhaka International Film Festival (Bangladesh, 2024)
cast
Emanuele Fortunati, Anna Ferzetti, Giulia Gallazzi, Benedetta Covati
written and directed by
producer
Daniele Milonia
production company
executive producer
Ramona Linzola
1st AD
Dalila Romeo
director of photography
Diego Diaz
set design
Marta Pagana
costume
Salvatore Musumeci
make up
Elena Rossi
editing
Giuseppe Cardaci
sound design
Lorenzo Sattin
original music
Antonio Torella
distribution and world sales
giuseppe cardaci's bio
Giuseppe Cardaci is a director and filmmaker from Catania with a degree in Graphic Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania and specialized in Film and New Media at Naba of Milan. The musical theme is often recurring in his productions, including his debut short film: “Carmen” (2015) made at the Film School of Santa Fe University of Art and Design. Back from the United States he directed “Italia” (2017), a musical feature film project that at the moment has been produced as a shortfilm. After “Italia”, he directed two new short films: “Two and a half months” (2018) starring Anna Ferzetti, Orsetta Borghero and Alessandro Tedeschi and “A family tradition” (2019) starring Ivano Marescotti, Matilde Gioli and Erica Del Bianco. These shortfilms were made for the cinema magazine Ciak and the Mini Italia car brand, with the production “Officine Fare Cinema e Anteo ”and the artistic supervision of the italian director Silvio Soldini. During the lockdown he made a mini web series produced by PLUS S.R.L, “#RESRENDIAMOCI, storie di italiani che si rialzano”, in which this period was documented through video testimonies, collected in stories with different emotional shades. In 2021 he finished the post production of the short film “Like snow” with the collaboration of “HomeMovies - Archivio nazionale di famiglia”; moreover in 2022, with PLUS S.R.L., he finished the production of a new short-film: “Ad Alma”.