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Super Jesus

ITALY / 20 MIN & 15 MIN / 2022 / FICTION / DCP 2K / 2.35:1 / STEREO / COLOR
Subtitles available: English, Italian, Spanish
Carlo ha nove anni, vive a Taranto ed è gravemente malato. Carlo ha una passione sfegatata per Gesù, il suo supereroe preferito. Soffre di crisi catatoniche, per cui, all’improvviso si assenta totalmente.
Ugo ha poco più di quarant’anni ed è stato messo in Cassa integrazione dalla grande acciaieria in cui lavora. Ateo e comunista, ma preso da necessità, decide di partecipare ad un misterioso casting in cui cercano disperatamente un Gesù con promessa di lauta ricompensa.
Così Ugo, per far felice Carlo, si ritrova ad indossare i panni del supereroe più grande di tutti i tempi: Super Jesus.
Carlo is nine-years-old, lives in Taranto, and is seriously ill. Carlo is very passionate about Jesus, his favorite superhero. He suffers from catatonic crisis, suddenly being completely absent. 
Ugo is in his forties, with payroll subsidies from the giant steel mill where he works. Atheist and communist, but needy. He decides to take part in a mysterious casting, with a considerable reward, for the role of Jesus. 
That’s how Ugo, to make Carlo happy, plays the part of the biggest superhero of all times: Super Jesus.

 

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Festivals & Awards

  • RIFF – Rome Independent Film Festival Awards (Italy, 2022) – winner Miglior Corto Italiano
  • Catania Film Fest (Italy, 2022) – winner Miglior Corto Italiano
  • SA.FI.TER (Italy, 2022) – winner Miglior Regia Corti Puglia
  • Asti International Film Festival (Italy, 2022)
  • Corto Dorico (Italy, 2022)
  • Corti in Festival (Italy, 2022)

Press Reviews & Interviews

  • “Un divertente e commovente cortometraggio che aiuta a guardarsi dentro”. Taxidrivers.it by Veronica Ranocchi
  • “Raramente si è vista una partenza così bruciante per un cortometraggio italiano”. RIFF by Emanuele Rauco.
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cast

Luca Avagliano, Fabrizio Boffetti, Ilenia Maccarrone, Pietro De Silva, Bruno Santini, Dino Paradiso

directed by

Vito Palumbo

written by

Vito Palumbo, Giuseppe Triarico & Alfredo Mazzara

produced by

MoveArt Film

1st AD

Edoardo Ferraro

cinematography by

Emilio M. Costa

art director

Marco Vigna

costumes

Mariagiovanna Stallo

make-up

Alessandra Pagliara

film editor

Vito Palumbo

sound mix

Davide Bianco

original music

Cyril Morin

distribution and world sales

Vito Palumbo's bio

Vito Palumbo was born at Agropoli (SA) in 1974. After his school studies, he moves to Rome to study acting at Accademia d’arte drammatica “Pietro Scharoff” and film direction and editing at NUCT. In 2009 his short film ‘ICE SCREAM’ after being announced as the Italian’s most awarded short film in the world, is turned into a Hollywood movie produced by Christian Halsey Solomon (American Psycho, New Rose Hotel) starring Laura Harring (Mullholland Drive) and Spencer Treat Clark (Il Gladiatore, Unbreakable). The short film was distributed in home video with the American blockbuster ‘Daybreakers’. In 2015, his short film ‘Child K’, produced by Colorado Film, gets the Cultural Interest of MIBAC and wins the Nastri d’Argento award. In 2018 he makes ‘U muschittieri’, a short film based on the true story of Giovanni Falcone’s childhood, a national hero. The short film is produced by Rai Cinema, and receives more than 20 awards and several TV screenings. Vito is also an acting, filmmaking, and editing professor, in different institutions throughout Italy, including the Università degli Studi di Bari where he teaches in the multimedia and audiovisual production lab.