International Independent Short Film Festival
Friday, June 20, Saturday, June 21, 2025 at 9:00 p.m.
at Parco delle Concette (entrance from Piazza San Silvestro), Pisa
Final event of the festival
International Independent Short Film Festival
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A grieving widower turns to a medium for solace, leading to an encounter that could unravel them both.
The Ecolo party in Brussels won the elections with 89% of the votes. Their flagship measure “Good Move +” will be adopted the next day, meaning an outright ban on SUVs. But an unexpected phenomenon will occur and several members of the party will have to fight for their survival.
There is a problem for an Iranian fencer at the world fencing championships. The Iranian team will not allow her to play her next match Because if she loses, she will face the Israeli team and the Iranian team will not be allowed to compete with the israeli. She opposes the team's order. She is sure that she will win this match.
Paolo is on trial at a call center. He has the time of a phone call to convince the elderly Nando to give him his credit card details.
While the Mom and the Dad try to put their baby to sleep, a competition arises between them: who will manage to get the baby to say the first word?
Adam, 27, drops his wife’s G-string onto neighbor Bassem’s balcony. Bassem shuts the door, ignoring Adam’s explanation. Convinced Bassem took it, Adam retaliates, breaking a flowerpot. He sneaks into Bassem’s room, leading to a confrontation. But when the G-string is still missing, doubt begins to creep in.
Filmmaker, teacher and essayist. He has written and directed 4 feature films, 2 horror and 2 documentaries, several documentaries for RAI, shorts and mockumentaries.
He has published for Lindau and La nave di Teseo and is author of the OttolinaTV column ‘Desaparecinema’.
Passionate about cinema, writing and drawing, graduated in SAVS from Unipi. Volunteer at Cineclub Arsenale and member of the film selection team of Idromeno Independent Film Festival in Scutari.
Director, producer and lecturer in directing at the Accademia Cinema Toscana, he has participated in international productions and realised works between Italy and New York combining writing, music composition and film direction.
Student in Communication Sciences in Pisa.
Teacher in Media Ethics at the Department of Civilisation and Forms of Knowledge, University of Pisa. He deals with the ethics of emerging technologies, with particular reference to the image and artificial intelligence.
Film and communication enthusiast. President of the association Trame Indipendenti.
A film critic for Movieplayer, Everyeye, Sentireascoltare, she holds the criticism course at the Arsenale cinema in Pisa.
There is a problem for an Iranian fencer at the world fencing championships. The Iranian team will not allow her to play her next match Because if she loses, she will face the Israeli team and the Iranian team will not be allowed to compete with the israeli. She opposes the team's order. She is sure that she will win this match.
Breaking News tells the story of Jacinto, a lonely, repetitious and well-groomed gentleman, who is finally,
after many attempts, given the opportunity to appear as a breaking news piece on television.
When they are born they are precious, almost perfect. But they grow so fast. I wish there was a way to enjoy that unrepeatable age forever. Petit Toujour combines the latest advances in gene therapy and selective hormone blocking to extend your time with the most beautiful thing you have in the world, your baby.
Yasi and raha , two girls whom rejected by everyone and everything. Yasi tried everything she could to make the last appoinment to raha before shes taken to solitary confinement. Raha fears of the rumors that if a girl is virgin before her execution, her virginity must be taken by a man, more than she fears death. Yasi does everything in her power not let her girlfriend get executed!
The short film titled “Corruption on Earth” is about a fictional award ceremony for the “Best Regime in the World”. The prize is awarded to Iran. The excellent political and social achievements of the political leadership were praised in a laudatory speech. In an emotional acceptance speech, Iran's supreme political leader Ali Khamenei insists on going into detail about his regime's excellent achievements in person. The filmic recordings are mixed with real cell phone recordings of the current Iran protests and in this way combine reality and fiction, they are intended to leave the viewer in a state of emotional chaos.
Every year, Serravalle Langue is the traditional setting for the World’s Biggest Hide-And-Seek Game. All its inhabitants hide to honor the memory of the partisans who were forced to disappear to save themselves and the Country, during the Resistance.
Cast: Belén González, José Lozano, Iván Muelas
José faces a paranormal event that breaks into his home. As he fights for his life against the supernatural powers, Jose will have to discover the secret behind the phenomena if he wishes to regain control of his home.
Runtime: 10 min
15 have passed and Roberto is still in love with his neighbor, but she prefers to hide ashamed of her body. With his art and an old clothesline as the only ways of communication, Roberto has a plan to push his beloved for face her monsters at once.
Runtime: 9 min
Cast: Forouzan Rezaeiyan, Fariba Sagvand, Eedi Ali Nedjad, Fabiola Dalla Chiara, Maryam Ahmadi, Ahmad Reza Naderi, Alayhe NAderi
A woman was living in a village with her two small kids. The thieves want to rob her cattle but she finds it out.
Runtime: 12 min
Cast: Alessandro Haber, Carlo Luca De Ruggieri, Mauro Racanati, Alice Papes
When a house alarm rings, the owner's nephew, an old unstable neighbor and the block's security guard find themselves locked in a vortex of misunderstandings and violence.
Runtime: 20 min
Cast: Ahmed Kamal, Eman Moustafa
Nour, is a schoolgirl that lives alone with her dad, goes through a crisis on the arrival of her puberty, and cannot tell her dad and her dad didn't understand the changes that occurred in her life, which results in tension between them.
Runtime: 16 min
Cast: Eduardo Scarpetta, Eleonora Belcamino, Luis Dobre, Gianluca
Jonathan is nine years old with the eyes of an adult. In an emergency room, he waits for his mother to have old wounds on her face checked. With candy in hand and a terrible idea in his head, Jonathan decides to escape. His house is located in the area of the Ponte di Nona - a suburb of Rome, where the bright colors of the buildings contrast with the discomfort that surrounds them - where little Gionatan finds Secco, a criminal, and persuades him to follow him, saying he saw some men beating her little brother.
Runtime: 15 min
