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
Rome Independent Film Festival (Italy, 2022) – BEST ITALIAN SHORT FILM
Film Festival Internazionale Salento Finibus Terrae (SA.FI.TER.) Italy, 2022 – BEST DIRECTOR ‘PUGLIA’
Catania Film Fest (Italy, 2022) – BEST ITALIAN SHORT FILM
Prato Film Festival (Italy, 2023) – BEST SHORT FILM ‘CHILDREN’
River Film Festival (Italy, 2023) – BEST ITALIAN SHORT FILM, AUDIENCE AWARD
Lunigiana Cinema Festival (Italy, 2023) – BEST SHORT FILM ‘ENVIRONMENT’
Corto e Cultura (Italy, 2023) – BEST DIRECTOR
Corto di Sera (Italy, 2023) – BEST SHORT FILM ‘FROM ITALY TO ITALA’
San Benedetto International Film Fest (Italy, 2023) – HONORABLE MENTION
Boyne Valley International Film Festival (Ireland, 2023) – HONORABLE MENTION
Bardi Film Festival (Italy, 2023) – BEST SHORT FILM
Officinema Rochetta (Italy, 2023) – BEST SHORT FILM
Fernando di Leo Short Film Festival (Italy, 2023) -BEST DIRECTOR ‘PUGLIA’
Videocorto Nettuno (Italy, 2023) – BEST LOCATION, BEST LOOK, BEST POSTER
Mottola Short Film Festival (Italy, 2023) – BEST SHORT FILM
Premio Sele d’Oro (Italy, 2023)- BEST SHORT FILM ‘SUD SHORT FILMS’
Factory Film Festival (Italy, 2023) – AUDIENCE AWARD
Religion Today Film Festival (Italy, 2023) – BEST SHORT FILM, BEST SOUND SCORE, PREMIO NUOVI SGUARDI
Wood Film Fest (Italy, 2023) – BEST SHORT FILM
Premio Fausto Rossano (Italy, 2023) – BEST SHORT FILM
FICCS – Festival Internacional de Cine de la Cuenca del Salado (Argentina, 2023) – BEST INTERNATIONAL FICTION SHORT FILM
Asti International Film Festival (Italy, 2022)
Corto Dorico (Italy, 2022)
Corti in Festival (Italy, 2022)
Cortinametraggio (Italy, 2023)
Pop Corn Festival del Corto (Italy, 2023)
Amicorti Film Festival (Italy, 2023)
Monte-Carlo Comedy Film Festival (Monaco, 2023) – Finalist
Mediterraneo Festival Corto (Italy, 2023) – Official selection
Festival Internacional de Cine Bajo la Luna de Islantilla (Spain, 2023)
Short Out (Italy, 2023)
Social World Film Festival (Italy, 2023)
Inventa un film Lenola (Italy, 2023)
AmarCorti – Umbria Film Festival (Italy, 2023)
Cisterna Film Festival (Italy, 2023)
Marateale in Short (Italy, 2023)
Milazzo Film Festival (Italy, 2023) – Fuori conorso
Karawan Fest (Italy, 2023)
San Diego Italian Film Festival (USA, 2023)
Certamen Internacional de cortometrajes El Pecado (Spain, 2023)
Funcinema (Argentina, 2023)
Filmare Festival (Italy, 2023) – Finalist
Biopic Short Fest (Italy, 2023)
CineEco Seia – Serra da Estrela International Environmental Film Festival (Portugal, 2023)
Inferenze Short Film Festival (Italy 2023)
Visioni Corte International Short Film Festival (Italy, 2023)
Festival Audiovisual Pila (Argentina, 2023)
Patagonia Eco Film Festival (Argentina, 2023)
I-Fest International Film Festival (Italy, 2023)
Portobello Film Festival (England, 2023)
Social Film Festival ArTelesia Benevento (Italy, 2023)
Storie Parallele (Italy, 2023) – Fuori concorso
Lucca Film Festival (Italy, 2023) – Fuori concorso
Il Corto.it – Festa di Roma 2023 (Italy, 2023)
Festival del Cinema Europeo (Italy, 2023) – Fuori concorso
Roma Creative Contest (Italy, 2023)
Calvi Festival (Italy, 2023) – Fuori concorso
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.
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.