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Dead Times

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Dead Times (Tempi Morti)

original title:

Tempi Morti

directed by:

Damiano Monaco, Lucio Lionello

cast:

Anna Bonasso, Roberto Accornero, Lorenzo Demaria, Jurij Ferrini, Gabriele Bocchio, Andrea Nicolini, Paola D'Acquila, Michela di Martino

screenplay:

Gabriele Monaco, Damiano Monaco, Lucio Lionello, Simone Gigiaro

cinematography:

Francesco Crivaro

editing:

Damiano Monaco, Lucio Lionello

producer:

Damiano Monaco

production:

H12 Film, Ouvert, Infrared Film

distribution:

ShortsFit [Italy]

world sales:

ShortsFit [Italy]

country:

Italy

year:

2020

film run:

15'

format:

b/w

status:

Ready (01/03/2020)

festivals & awards:

  • Storia in Corto 2020
  • Pápa Historical Film Festival 2020
  • Dhaka International Film Festival 2021
  • Castelli Romani Film Festival Internazionale 2020
  • Corto Week End 2020: Premio del Pubblico
  • Asti Film Festival 2020
  • Festival Tulipani di Seta Nera 2021
  • Veterans Film Festival 2020
  • Montelupo Fiorentino International Independent Film Festival 2020
  • Glocal Film Festival 2021
  • Vittoria Peace Film Festival 2021
  • One Country One Film Festival 2021
  • Sezze Film Festival 2021
  • La Spezia Short Film Awards 2021: Miglior Regia
  • Cabriolet Film Festival 2021
  • Globo d’Oro 2021: Finalista
  • Calvi Festival 2021
  • International Short Film Festival - Short Form 2021
  • Monza Film Fest 2021: Miglior Film Italiano

Dead Times is based on a true story. A widow finds two tombs for her husband. A mystery that can only be solved by a shrewd professor and by two gravediggers. What they find will open the doors to a forgotten past. The IMI were a unique case in history: more than 650,000 Italian Anti-Fascists that, for various reasons, after September 8th 1943, were imprisoned in German, Polish and Greek camps. Can a person, or a State, consider itself adult if it has chosen to forget rather than to face its past?