[a-live] - da una storia vera (Short)

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original title:

[a-live] - da una storia vera

directed by:

Alice Rotiroti

cast:

Agnese Piola, Filippo Kalomenidis, Silvia Scuderi

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country:

Italy

year:

2018

film run:

15'

format:

colour

status:

Ready (01/01/2018)

festivals & awards:

The Gulf Of Naples Film Festival 2019: Concorso Cortometraggi
Buenos Aires Web Fest 2019: Competencia Internacional
Dieciminuti Film Festival 2019
RiFF River Film Festival 2019
New York International Film Festival 2019: Official Selection
Worldwide Women's Film Festival 2019: Best Visual Effects
Annual SPE Women’s Film & Video Festival 2019
Firenze FilmCorti International Festival 2018: Menzione d'Onore
Medd Film Fest 2018: Best Actress
Reggio Film Fest 2018
Festival Internazionale di Cinema e Donne - Life & Cinema 2018: Panorama
Rieti e Sabina Film Festival 2018: Concorso Cortometraggi
Eurasia International Monthly Film Festival 2018: Official Selection
The Genre Celebration Festival 2018: Official Selection

Vania is a young woman who is concluding an unfinished work of her mother’s, who had died years before in a car accident. The work is an investigation into the lives of 8 famous artists who committed suicide (Silvya Plath, Marina Cvataeva, Sarah Kane, Amelia Rosselli, Antonia Pozzi, Roberta Tatafiore, Francesca Woodman and Diane Arbus). Carrying out the narrative research of the mother brings her close to that world where questions are left unanswered, and makes her question every aspect of her own existence, to the point where she herself falls into a lucid, psychotic and emotional short circuit where she contemplates and plans her own suicide. Will this immersion into an art so pure as to prevent any compromise with reality be Vania’s salvation or end?

[a-live] - da una storia vera (Short)

by Alice Rotiroti