THE LIFE IS SHORT

The Italian Short Film Center is a film library and an agency for promoting Italian shorts. It is located in Turin and works closely with all foremost national festivals and events. Founded in 2007, the CNC has curated the digitalization and restoration of over 200 films. It facilitates the circuit of Italian shorts movie in cinemas, film clubs and special-ized initiatives; it is the showcase of Italian shorts in the Festival International du Courtmétrage of Clermont-Ferrand; it publishes books that explore and delve deeply into Italian and international short films.



The Suitcase
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Pier Paolo PAGANELLI

Animation | Italy | 2015 | 14’51’’

 

 

Secluded from the rest of the world in a bare and anonymous room, an old man recalls the most important moments of his life thanks to the memories contained in a mysterious suitcase.

 
Persefone
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Grazia TRICARICO

Fiction | Italy | 2014 | 18’

 

An imagined life whrere dwarves run free, with castles in the air and loving gestures. An existence lived in another place, another world, one step away from eternity.

 
Orizzonti! Orizzonti!
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Anna MARZIANO

Documentary | Italy, France, Germany | 2014 | 11’22’’

 

 

Anna Marziano’s Orizzonti Orizzonti! continues the filmmaker’s interest in marginalized voices and the fragment as a form of meaningful exchange. Documenting encounters with Apulians as they confide intimate experiences, the film oscillates between black-and-white documentary neorealism and placid, Sugimoto-like seascapes.

 
Dalila
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Magda GUIDI

Animation | Italy | 2015 | 5’24’’

 

 

A girl is swimming. Some images emerge from the dense dark around. A little girl is in a church, on the First Holy Communion day. For a moment, Dalila adult and Dalila child can see each other.

 
Champ des possibles
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Cristina PICCHI

Experimental Documentary | Canada, Italy, Sweden | 2015 | 14’

 

 

An imagined life whrere dwarves run free, with castles in the air and loving gestures. An existence lived in another place, another world, one step away from eternity.

 
Chickenpox
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Fulvio RISULEO

Fiction | Italy | 2015 | 14’

 

Chickenpox is a very small thing if you’re young. But if you’re a grown-up it can be very dangerous. When Mommy finds out, she starts worrying about Carlo, her son, who still isn’t sick. He’s growing fast, something must soon be done. She needs to find a way to ‘make him’ sick. But does Daddy agree?

 
America
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Alessandro STEVANON

Fiction | Italy | 2014 | 12’41’’

 

An imagined life whrere dwarves run free, with castles in the air and loving gestures. An existence lived in another place, another world, one step away from eternity.

 


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