Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Mumbai and the 18th Mumbai International Film Festival collaborate to bring to Mumbai 2 short movies candidates for the David di Donatello Prize 2024, as well as the documentary “Amate Sponde”. MIFF features a curated selection of impactful Indian and international Documentary, Animation and Short Fiction films.
In quanto a noi | From our side
Directed by Simone Massi
5 mins | Italy | 2022
The whistles of Eugenio Montale’s poetry “Avevamo studiato per l’aldilà”, transformed into a video poetry by Simone Massi, are interpreted in the same way as those signals or sounds that surprise us in life as omens, a broken mirror, an owl, omens of this that awaits us. Voiced by Wim Wenders.
We should all be futurists
Directed by Angela Norelli
11 mins | Italy | 2023
At the turn of the years 1910s and 1920s, in an allusive correspondence, Rosa confides in her friend Giorgina, telling her a secret: the mechanical man envisioned by Marinetti is not a concept for mankind, as Futurists purport. The entire short film was made by re-editing scenes from a number of silent films.
Amate Sponde | Beloved Shores
Directed by Egidio Eronico
78 mins | Italy | 2022
Amate Sponde is visual poem about Italy. The film casts a glance on the life of the Country, from cultural and environmental heritage to economy and industry. Images and music proceed hand in hand in a continuum, where the alternation of extremely diverse scenes represents the possible biography of a Nation.