A 20-year long friendship and a past similarly marked by tragic events unite Ben (a European filmmaker) and Negi (an Indian Buddhist). Fascinated by the possibility of finding in Negi a spiritual guide to come to terms with death, Ben relives and analyses his family's past. As the impossibility of clear and definitive answers emerges, Ben's introspective journey leads him deal with the role life has given him, closely linked to his relationship with his own father. This unveils the deeply human need of accepting death that transcends cultural, religious and geographical barriers.
World premiere: Biografilm Festival 2025 (in competition Biografilm Italia)
Written and directed: Beniamino Casagrande
Producer: Massimiliano Gianotti
Editor: Marco Vitale
Cinematography: Anke Riester
Sound recoring: Lorenzo Misia and Andrea Tomarchio
Music: Anna Mongelli and Dario Mongelli
Sound design and mix: Stefano Bernardi and Matilde Ramini
Colorist: Marco Di Liello
Pool edge
Fiction short film, duration: 11 minutes
It is a scorching summer. An indistinct mass of bodies lolls on the grassy dunes of Bolzano's public swimmingpool, everything resonates as if in a big bubble. A seven-year-old girl is playing by the pool with her father, and not far away her mother is sunbathing. Surprisingly, the father grabs her ankle, lifting her up like a fishing trophy. The little girl upside down stirs, cries and plummets into the water. She resurfaces, fumbling, coughing, her eyes burning with chlorine and anger. She gets out of the tub, heads towards her father ready to take her revenge. In a few moments, the joyous quietness of the pool is subverted and a chaos suspended between terror and disbelief silences the shouting..
Director: Giuseppe Zampella Screenplay: Giuseppe Zampella Cinematography: Michele Cherchi Palmieri Editing: Federico Milan Cast: Irene Maiorino, Greta Sacco, Sandro Capriati Production: Massimiliano Gianotti, Adam Selo, Olga Torrico, Michele Cherchi Palmieri Production companies: 19 Società Cooperativa, Sayonara Film, Matto Film International and italian distribution: Sayonara Film
Riprendiamoci la notte – La bellezza del cielo stellato in Alto Adige
Duration: 59 min
A night trip in South Tyrol: from Dolomites, framing the starry nights with their peaks, to Bolzano, where stars are slowly fading into the night. Our lives rely on stars, but are we concerned enough about our relationship with them? Light pollution is shrinking the attention toward what is happening beyond our planet Earth and maybe, also toward our history, past and future.
Subjects: Juile Hössle, Andrea Bertoldi, Gabriella Cosmo Director: Julie Hössle Camera e color correction: Andrea Bertoldi Editing: Gabriella Cosmo Production: Cooperativa 19 Voice over: Claudia Grestl Graphic Design: Leonardo Michelon With: David Gruber, astronomer and director of South Tyrol Museum of Natural Sciences and, Chiara Paniccia, biologist and researcher at EURAC Research
Vivere d’arte – Essere d’artisti al tempo del Covid
Duration: 4x14 min (56 min)
Four portraits of young south tyrolean artists during the Covid-19 Pandemic. From dance to painting and from theater to music, the series consists of collective episodes to discover how artworks are created and performed. Main characters tell unfiltered stories showing nowadays artists' conditions and answering to a core question: what does it mean to live off art?
Edited by: Stefano Lisci With: Peter Burchia, Elena Beccaro, Salvatore Cutrì, Sabrina Fraternali Production: Cooperativa 19
Se noi non siamo come voi – Storie dalla generazione Z
Duration 4x15 min (60 min)
Four episodes to discover Gen Z in South Tyrol, speaking out stories, ambitions and desires of young people. Music, activism, spirituality and new technologies are some of the themes we are talking with the protagonists: Chiara Avanzo e Laura Demarchi - N.B.W.D. (Merano), Tea Ducato e Ferdaous Harfi, Diego Laratta - Fridays for futures e Giovanni Gottardo - Extinction Rebellion, Matteo e Christian Roggia di Animeshon e Ava Hansmann. A production of “RAI Alto Adige”.
You can find all four episodes on RAI Alto Adige multimedia library:
Direction and subject: Marco Vitale Camera: Andrea Bertoldi, Beniamino Casagrande and Stefano Lisci Editing: Maria Radicchi Direction consultant: Diego K. Pierini General management: Massimiliano Gianotti Production: Cooperativa 19 With: Chiara Avanzo, Laura Demarchi, Tea Ducato, Ferdaous Harfi, Giovanni Gottardo, Diego Laratta, Matteo and Christian Roggia, Ava Hansmann
Luca + Silvana
2019, documentary, 59 minutes, Italian | trailer | Visit the site
Luca and Silvana love each other and want to get married, a desire that seems unfeasible for people like them with Down syndrome. After 10 years of waiting and continuous postponements something seems to be moving, and perhaps they will finally be able to achieve their dream. A love story told delicately and deeply that invites us to reflect on the universal right to love and share our life with another person.
Director and subject: Stefano Lisci Production management: Massimiliano Gianotti Cinematographer: Beniamino Casagrande Editing: Maria Radicchi e Marco Vitale Original music: Martino Pellegrini Live sound: Ambrose Mbuya Siyanga, Patrick Bruttomesso Sound design: Philippe Gozlan Color correction: Gabriele Cipolla Graphics: Sonia Galluzzo Production Secretariat: Elena Antonin Press office: Valentina Cramerotti
Bar Mario
2016, documentary, 62 minutes, Italian | trailer | Buy or rent
For over 70 years, on the border between Italy and Austria, a café built in the shape of a ship has been moored in the snow-capped Dolomites. The captain, Marina, spends the whole day watching over her 33-year-old son, and serving the customers at the same time. The café is also the living room of their home, just a door separating the bar from the rest of the house. The events intertwine and become a choral story from which a tragicomic portrait emerges; a comedy of real life in which the protagonists play the role that life has assigned to them.
Director and subject: Stefano Lisci Cinematographer: Beniamino Casagrande Editing by Maria Radicchi e Marco Vitale Original music: Martino Pellegrini Live sound: Ambrose Mbuya Siyanga Production management: Massimiliano Gianotti Press office: Valentina Cramerotti
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