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Luca, out of sync

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Luca, out of sync (Luca, fuori sincrono)

Luca, out of sync (Luca, fuori sincrono)

original title:

Luca, fuori sincrono

directed by:

Alessandro Marinaro

cast:

Luca Iacono, Simona Di Bella, Pier Giuseppe Giuffrida, Marta Urzì, Daniele Di Martino, Olimpia Ferraresi

screenplay:

Alessandro Marinaro

cinematography:

Fino La Leggia

editing:

Alessandro Marinaro

set design:

Adele Cirelli

costume design:

Adele Cirelli

production:

095mm, Conversion Media

country:

Italy

year:

2024

film run:

18'25"

format:

4K - colour

status:

Ready (01/02/2024)

festivals & awards:

  • Diorama International Film Festival 2024
  • Corto Week End 2024: Semi-Finalista
  • Milazzo Film Festival 2024
  • South Italy International Film Festival
  • 24 Risas por Segundo – Festival del Cine y Comedia 2024
  • Mediterraneo Festival Corto 2024
  • CortIntelvi Film Festival 2024
  • Shorts6 2024
  • Terramia Film Festival 2024: Semi-Finalista
  • Festival del Cinema di Cefalù 2024: Lode della Giuria e Premio della Critica Internazionale
  • TaSHORTfest 2024 Festival internacional de cortos de humor de Barcelona: Miglior Attore
  • Post-Cinema Film Festival 2024: Menzione Speciale
  • Comedy Film Fest 2024
  • Taiga Film Festival 2024
  • Jagran Film Festival 2024
  • Videocorto Nettuno 2024: Miglior Soggetto e Premio del Pubblico
  • Ferrara Film Festival 2024: Finalista
  • Corto Colonna 2024: Premio del Pubblico
  • Bengaluru International Film Festival 2024
  • Astonishing Narratives 2024: Menzione Speciale
  • Coliffe – COLiseum International Film FEstival 2024
  • Cecinema Film Festival 2024: Semi-Finalista
  • Festival Internacional de Cine Sendependa 2024
  • Fabriano Film Fest 2024: Miglior Cortometraggio sezione low budget e Premio Giuria Giovani
  • Film4Fun 2024
  • Festival del Cinema di Castel Volturno 2024
  • Festival Inclùs 2024
  • accordi@DISACCORDI International Short Film Festival: Menzione Speciale A.M.C. (Associazione Montaggio Cinematografico), Premio del Pubblico
  • Humor en Corto 2024
  • Cinema Mediterraneo in Streaming: il Festival che unisce 2024
  • Pluriart Film Festival 2025: Premio del Pubblico
  • Kuala Lumpur International Film Awards 2025
  • Kerala Short Film Festival 2025 Funny Under Fifteen Minutes 2025
  • CIP Milan Shorts 2025
  • Kerala Short Film Festival 2025
  • Rabat-Comedy International Film Festival 2025

Luca has been speaking out of sync for many years. He is being treated by a psychoanalyst, in an attempt to solve this absurd problem. One day he invites a girl to lunch and doesn’t know what to do to hide his absurd handicap.

DIRECTOR'S NOTES:
I liked the idea of telling a love story in a comic and surreal way. The film is about the desire to fall in love again, reliving that ecstatic feeling as a way to access one of the most beautiful joys. This joy makes everything possible, because everything returns to its place, everything participates in this overwhelming happiness, and music and dance become the most effective aesthetic tools to tell this radiant exaltation.
The film deals with disability in a completely unusual way. It definitely avoids tearful situations, to focus, instead, on the desire to smile at ourselves with lightness.