by Giada Bossi
Screen play 2nd edition official selection
EXT. NIGHT – ROME, MAR 23TH 2023
Il Varco Film Fund and Screenplay Awards
OFFICIAL SELECTION
ITALIAN SHORT SCREENPLAYS
Spietato
2005. Evening, rural province of northern Italy.
The sexual initiation of Christian, sixteen-year-old, eccentric and exuberant, turns into a wild wolf hunt.
La Divisa
by Raffaele Salvaggiola
Ferruccio, 9, a member of the local band, spends his last days in his small southern Italian village before moving with his family north just as the band uniform is to be unveiled.
Acquapark
by Ilaria Pascazio, Gloria Motterelli
Marta’s summer becomes a time of formation.
Come le alici
by Valerio Maria Sessa
Salvatore returns home and must come to terms with what he left behind before he left.
ITALIAN FEATURE SCREENPLAYS
Nothing to see
by Giacomo Pierini
Emma, an architect in her forties, sits every summer day – when she has little work – at the same table in a Café in the center of Florence, Italy.
Elixir
by Nicholas Di Valerio
Living and working in New York City, Jonathan Tale is a next-to-be-forty amnesic screenwriter with a highly functional schizophrenia: it’s his curse, it’s his superpower and it’s his ticket for a mind-blowing ride that will question space, time and reality as he finds out that he might be unconsciously sowing clues about his forgotten past in everything he writes.
Conigli Neri
by Davide Angiuli
After abandoning Taranto and her environmental blog, Giulia moved to a commune lost in the frozen forests on the Austrian border.
We are no longer ourselves
by Danilo Ćuk
Strong at first, Jure’s muscles and nationalistic ardor fade in old age. Parable in which the lives of Teodora, her relatives and friends are grafted: men and women living the concentration camp of Jasenovac, the destruction of Vukovar, the siege of Sarajevo: places that appear with time jumps, connected by exchanges of letters, to land in an unknown Italian city.
INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCREENPLAYS
Azadeh
by Shahnam Sojoudizadeh
Azadeh, a beautiful and intelligent 13-year-old Afghan girl, is trafficked to Tajikestan (in the form of modern slavery) for work with several Afghan families.
Ayalagch
by Siyuan Xu, Jinshuai Zhang
Batel, a Mongolian man, is paid by a middleman to drive a van to somewhere near the Chinese-Mongolian border. His trip goes awry as he finds out what he is truly carrying…
Kabuk
by Hakan Ünal
The Shell is a stark yet realistic portrait of a woman on the edge of her bonds without the courage to save herself.
Sleeping Beauty
by Brunella Filì, Antonella Gaeta, Giuliana Altamura
Attilio, 58 years old, is an internationally renowned photographer who has been diagnosed with a terminal illness.
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCREENPLAYS
Witness 26
by Michele Gentile
Based on true events, WITNESS 26 tells the story of Malia, a former Congolese child soldier, who arrives at the city of The Hague as witness for a prosecution at the International Criminal Court.
Shampoo Horns
by Daniel Falcone
In 1995, twenty-year-old Dante arrives in New York City during a severe winter. He is a gentle soul, somewhat of a thief, and hopes to start a new life as an apprentice to a renown tattoo artist.
Roya
by Mahmoud Salimi
The forbidden love between two adolescents sparks a bloody feud between two Afghani families.
Driving a Stolen Car
by Ben Kujawski
Expecting their first child, Long Island couple Steven and Donna Marzec are quickly confronted by the harsh realities of their financial situation.
