Written and directed by Giulia Palaia
Project dossier
THE SHORTFILM
No audio post-production
CREDITS
Written and directed by GIULIA PALAIA
With VALENTINA PARISI, FEDERICA DI CESARE
Animation by MARIANNA PASINA
Also starring EMMA PALAIA, SALVATORE CUTRI, SANDRA PASSARELLO, EMANUELE CERRA, GRAZIANO HUELLER
Cinematography FEDERICO RUSSO
Edit SAVERIO SABATINI
Sound DANIELE ALESSI
MUA MARIA ELENA MIORI
Backstage ASIA DE LORENZI
Rental CO-RENT
Color grading CINECHROMATIX
Colorist SILVIA POZZI
Produced by ALESSIO VASARIN, MICHELA PARLAVECCHIO
a FRABIATOFILM production
With the support of PROVINCIA AUTONOMA DI BOLZANO, IDM – FILM COMMISSION SÜDTIROL, AIED
Two women, two beginnings of pregnancies, one strongly wanted, the other accidental, unintended. In just a few weeks, feelings and emotions intersect, leading the protagonists to share a hospital corridor, a miscarriage on the one hand, a life choice on the other.
Between November and December 2019 I was pregnant, for six weeks, and in the two weeks in which I knew, as much as I had strongly wished to be in that state, I was assailed by conflicting doubts. Daughter, sister, niece, partner, colleague, mother? How many times have I felt myself defined through a relationship, but who am I and in what roles do I wish to place myself? Can I really have more than one? It is a question that has brought me closer to both aspiring mothers and those who do not want to be mothers.
These are the questions that bring to the surface the two different potential motherhoods of Erica and Anna. A few decades apart, the two young women walk down the same corridor, the first through an abortion, the other through a miscarriage. Erica and Anna are closely linked, not only because they are mother and daughter, but also because they represent two of the voices that, on and off, speak in the heads of many. Erica, already a mother for six years, wants to distance herself from this single definition of herself. Anna, on the other hand, seeks it, finds it, loses it.
An investigation into the path that leads a daughter to relive, even if from a different but not entirely opposite point of view, her mother’s experience of life, death and choice.
Drama, animation
17 min.
House interior, medical studio
Introspective, essential, rough
Fixed camera, 4:3 ratio, clean frames
Motherhood, abortion, role of women
Waiting for distribution
Sales agent and distributor
Alessio Vasarin, Frabiatofilm
15.000,00 €
December 2021
Giulia Palaia (1989) studies architecture and graphic art, moving between Venice, Paris and Milan. Back to Bolzano, her city of birth, she starts working in the world of creative communication, dedicating herself to commercial and cultural projects. She approaches cinema as an author giving voice to a personal investigation, through the exploration of female figures in dialogue or in conflict with their own double. She writes and directs two short films, Agriope (2022) and Due Madri and participates in the Veneto Writing Lab for the writing of the feature film Delcisa.
Alessio Vasarin (1988) is an Italian director and producer from Bolzano.
In 2014, together with producer and screenwriter Michela Parlavecchio, he founded the production company Frabiatofilm.
His first work is the sci-fi feature film Strings (2015), directed four-handedly together with Sandro Tarter and presented in 2015 at the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival, in the Spazio Italia category.
In addition to directing short films, including La tana – 2017, Détour – 2020, Agosto – 2022, he works as a producer with director Giulia Palaia on two short films (Agriope – 2020, Due madri – 2022) and on the feature film Delcisa, currently being written and selected for the Veneto Writing Lab 2021, under the supervision of Giacomo Durzi.
His next short film, Una notte, has been developed within ShorTS Developement & Pitching 2022, with the support of Massimiliano Nardulli.
ROSSE FORMICHE ROSSE
A. Vasarin – 2022 – short
AGOSTO
A. Vasarin – 2022 – short
AGRIOPE
G. Palaia – 2022 – short
DÉTOUR
A. Vasarin – 2020 – short
LA COLAZIONE
A. Vasarin – 2019 – short
IL MOSTRO INVISIBILE
A. Vasarin – 2019 – doc
SHOGANAI
A. Vasarin – 2018 – short
LA TANA
A. Vasarin – 2017 – short
STRINGS
A. Vasarin, S. Tarter – 2015 – feature
DUE MADRI
G. Palaia – short (post-production)
UNA NOTTE
A. Vasarin – short (scriptwriting,
preproduction)
L’ETÀ DELL’INNOCENZA
C. Passeri – short (scriptwriting)
A DMATINA,
APENA AS LEVA L’OC DAL SUL
G. Palaia – short (in development)
DELCISA
feature (in development)
L’IMPRONTA
feature (in development)
Giulia Palaia
Director
giulia.palaia@fffish.it
Alessio Vasarin
Producer
+39 347 2140221
alessio@frabiatofilm.com
Giulia Palaia
Director
giulia.palaia@fffish.it
Alessio Vasarin
Producer
+39 347 2140221
alessio@frabiatofilm.com
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