Eternal Rest

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Eternal Rest (Recomaterna)

Eternal Rest (Recomaterna)

original title:

Recomaterna

directed by:

cinematography:

costume design:

country:

Italy

year:

2023

film run:

10'

format:

colour

status:

Ready (07/09/2023)

festivals & awards:

  • Italian Film Festival USA 2024: Short Film Program
  • Ischia Global Fest 2023
  • Inventa un Film 2023 Premio Anteprima
  • Lucania Film Festival 2023 Premio miglior ambientazione, premio miglior attrice non protagonista
  • Premio Sele D'oro 2023 Candidatura
  • Giffoni Macedonia youth film festival 2023
  • Sedicicorto 2023
  • Festival del cinema di Castel Volturno 2023: Miglior attrice protagonista (Maria Chiara Vallone)
  • Sorsi Corti 2023: Miglior Film
  • Catania film Fest 2023
  • SA.FI.TER. Puglia on the road 2023
  • Via dei Corti Festival indipendente del cinema breve 2023: Premio Globus Via dei Corti per la Valorizzazione del Territorio
  • Festival Internazionale del Cinema dei Castelli Romani 2023
  • Vittoria Peace Festival 2023
  • Cortometraggi che passione 2023
  • Murmat Film Festival 2024: Miglior cortometraggio a tema libero, Miglior attrice proragonista (Enza Cammarata)

Chiara, a 10-year-old girl, throws a stone at her little brother. Frightened, she runs away and hides at grandma Enza's house; to distract her, the woman will tell her a ghost story revealing an important truth.

DIRECTOR’S NOTES:
This film is a dedication to childhood, a wonderful and terrible age at the same time, a period inextricably linked to the figure of grandparents. I was lucky enough to have them present for most of my life, and one of them in particular was a fundamental presence for my training. This little film tells exactly that period, and the special relationship that a little girl has with her grandmother, so intense that it crosses time and space. Grandma Enza's house is the true protagonist of the film and her experience pervades the whole story; it is the furniture, the photos, the rope and the clothespins, the walls, the smell of the house that evoke the grandmother and memories associated with her. Lucia's senses transmute the environment bringing it back to the aspect it had when it was inhabited by her grandmother: therefore there are no apparitions of ghosts but the connection between different temporal spaces caused by the materialization of memories.