Metamorphosis (Film) (first feature)

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original title:

Metamorphosis

directed by:

Michele Fasano

screenplay:

Michele Fasano

animation:

Salvatore Centoducati, Giancarlo D’Incognito, Francesco Filippi

set design:

Elena Brighittini

music:

Roberto Salahaddin Re David

producer:

Michele Fasano

production:

Sattva Films, Premiere Film, supported by Ministero della Cultura, with the support of Creative Europe, Emilia-Romagna Film Commission, Apulia Film Commission

distribution:

Distribuzione Indipendente [Italy]

country:

Italy

year:

2022

film run:

106'

format:

colour

release date:

16/05/2024

genre:

animation film

festivals & awards:

Future Film Festival 2022: Concorso
Sardinia Film Festival 2022: Special Mention of Jury
Sottodiciotto Film Festival 2022: Out of competition
Cartoons on the Bay 2023: Special Mention of The Jury – Best Director
Animotion Film Festival 2023: Best Animated Feature Film
Animaphix 2023: Out of competition
Horcynus Festival 2023: Out of competition
Immaginaria Film Festival 2023: Out of competition
Matera International Film Festival 2023: Special Mention of The Jury – Best Animation
Dea Open Air International Film Festival 2023: Best Creative Documentary
Vilnius Allternative International Film Festival 2023: Best Animated Feature Film
Benelux International Film Festival 2023: Honorable Mention Award
Budapest Movie 2023: Honorable Mention Award
Istanbul Movie Awards 2023: Competition
Tbilisi International Animation Festival 2023: Competition
European Cinematography Award 2023: Competition
Amsterdam Movie Fest 2023: Competition
Kotka Human Rights Film Festival 2023: Best Animated Feature Film
International Art Film Festival 2023: Competition
Best International Film Festival 2023: Best Animated Feature Film
Docs Without Borders International Film Fest 2023: Mention of Merit
New York Animation Film Awards 2023: Competition
Chicago Filmmakers Awards 2023: Competition
Los Angeles Animation Festival 2023: Honorable Mention
San Jose Independent Film Festival 2023: Competition
Montreal Independent Film Festival 2023: Best Animated Feature Film
Tokyo International Cinema Awards 2023: Special Mention of Jury: Feature
Beyond Border International Film Festival 2023: Best Animated Feature Film
Gully International Film Festival 2023: Best Feature Film, Best Documentary, Best Animation Director, Best Male Director
Indian Independent Film Festival 2023: Best Animated Feature Film
Crown Wood International Film Festival 2023: Best Animated Feature Film
Blue Bird Film Festival 2023: Best Animated Feature Film
Silver Wings International Film Festival 2023: Best Animated Feature Film
South Sudan International Film Festival 2023: Best Feature Film, Best International Film, Best Animation Film Director
C’era una volta… favole al cinema 2024: Out of competition
Edinburgh Film Awards 2024: Best Animation
Rotterdam Independent Film Festival 2024: Competition
Hollywood Film & Animation Awards 2024: Golden Anima: Best Feature Film
Detroit Independent Film Festival 2024: Competition
International Animation Festival 2024: Best Animated Feature Film
St. Louis Film Awards 2024: Competition
Ashoka International Film Festival 2024: Best Animated Feature Film, Best Animation Director, Best Documentary Film, Best Foreign Film, Special Jury Award
Better Earth International Film Festival 2024: Best Animated Feature Film
Rajgir International Film Festival 2024: Best Feature Film, Best Animated Feature Film, Best Animation Director, Best Foreign Film
Samskara International Film Festival 2024: Best Animation
The Choise International Film Festival 2024: Best Animated Feature Film
Asian Independent Film Festival 2024: Best Documentary, Best Animation Film
Shri Narayan International Film Festival 2024: Best Animation, Best Documentary Film, Special Mention of Jury
Indo Dubai International Film Festival 2024: Best Documentary
Saath Jiyo Foundation International Film Festival 2024: Best Feature Film, Best Animation Film, Best Animation Director, Best Foreign Film, Best Special Jury Award, Best Film Of The Year 2024
Nawada International Film Festival 2024: Competition
The Buddha International Film Festival 2024: Competition
Bettiah International Film Festival 2024: Competition
Sleeping Owl Film Festival 2024: Competition
Darbhanga International Film Festival 2024: Competition
9PM International Film Festival 2024: Best Feature Film, Best Documentary, Best Animation Film, Best Screenplay, Best Art Director, Best Sound Design, Best Main Producer, Best Executive Producer #1, Best Executive Producer #2

Inspired by Farid al-Din ‘Attar’s “The Conference of the Birds“, the film tells of a flock of birds traveling in the wake of Hoopoe, towards the Mountain of Kafh, the home of King Simourgh, from which they expect to receive answers to all their questions. Between dream and reality, the birds cross the 7 Valleys. Most of them get lost along the way, except for the 4 of them who will make experience of 4 human being’s life: Monika (Albania), Abdurrahman (Turkey), Jihad (Syria) and Susan (Israel). Characters very different from each other, in terms of age, gender, culture and religion, territory of origin and mythologies, geographical landscapes and historical and psychological backgrounds. However, for the cases of life, but on the basis of their own specific different orthodoxy, it happens that each of them lives simultaneously in two or more religions. Not only “next door”, in an attitude of tolerance, but “living more than one at the same time”. Animated cinema, by way of metaphor, makes it possible to give visibility both to their spiritual commonality, in their absolute cultural difference, and to the antiquity of the wisdom tradition in which this commonality is inscribed: the Religion of Love. In the end, the secret will be revealed only to 6 birds: to the Hoopoe who guides them (but it too must first learn something); to the 4 who have lived the experience of Love of the human characters, plus a sixth, the most unlikely of all. Speaking of “Religion of Love” today might sound “paradoxical”, literally “outside of common opinion”, a trait destined to remain unperceived and not-documentable without specific dramaturgical work. The game between reality and fiction, therefore, on the one hand enhances the perception of meanings as “non-random”, on the other it allows you to play with the viewer’s belief devices, summoned to take a position, to “see” beyond their habits of perception, beyond the prejudices of common sense.

Metamorphosis (Film) (first feature)

by Michele Fasano