written and directed by
Alessio Vasarin
During one night, Giulio struggles to confide something important to Lara, his ‘more than’ friend. However, she too has not been entirely honest with him.
In my life I have never questioned my heterosexuality. However, It happened to me to feel more than just physical attraction to boys and sometimes something happened. I’ve always been spontaneous about it.
I realized, however, that I found it difficult, not to say shameful, to confide these experiences to others.
Perhaps I was not only afraid of being judged, but also of being seen different. Being heterosexual and cisgender is taken for granted; the rest must always be declared, to oneself and to others. Am I really able to decide and act on what concerns me intimately?
What I want does define me?
Through this story I intend to explore the characters and their shadows:
even Lara doesn’t tell the whole truth, about her feeling for Giulio.
In this framework Gemma, a transgender girl, represents a person who had to question her whole life and then had the courage to decide for herself.
Written and directed by Alessio Vasarin
Produced by Michela Parlavécchio
Lorenzo Cingolani Alessia Perillo Artemisia Meinero
Filippo Lanzi Roberto Vertieri
Director of Photography Michele Cherchi Palmieri
Edited by Morgana Tinebra
Original Music by Daniele Alessi
Production Coordinator Michela Parlavécchio
Story by Alessio Vasarin Giulia Palaia
1 AD Giuseppe Zampella
2 AD Giulia Palaia
Sound Recording by Carolina Stichter
1 AC Corrado Zito
Grip/Electric Graziano Di Domenico
Set Photographer Emma Gasparini Papotti
Rental Rec Südtirol Motion Pictures Jenessen Combocoop
Costume Designer Elena Beccaro
Production Designer Marianna Pasina
Make-up and Hair Maria Elena Miori Salon Mirage
Sound Editor Silvia Di Furia
Colorist Silvia Pozzi
Drama, LGBTQ+
15 min.
Nocturnal urban Bologna, late spring
Introspective, bittersweet, light irony
Close-ups, details, colorful lights, handheld camera, 4:3 ratio
How other people percieve us, social labels, gender identity, sexual orientation, modern relationships
The distance between us and the sky, by V. Kekatos
(Winnner Short film Palme d’Or at Cannes 2019)
Editing, post-production
Michela Parlavecchio, Frabiatofilm
51.561,16 €
29th – 30th – 31th May 2023
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)
Alessio Vasarin
Director
+39 347 2140221
alessio@frabiatofilm.com
Michela Parlavecchio
Producer
+39 338 5487654
michela@frabiatofilm.com
Alessio Vasarin
Director
+39 347 2140221
alessio@frabiatofilm.com
Michela Parlavecchio
Producer
+39 338 5487654
michela@frabiatofilm.com
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