original title:
Un breve incontro
directed by:
screenplay:
cinematography:
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set design:
music:
Radio Hito, Zen My Nguyen
producer:
production:
country:
Italy
year:
2026
film run:
20'
format:
colour
status:
Ready (20/07/2026)
festivals & awards:
Kath, an Italian Filipina content moderator working remotely from Genova, learns that a colleague in the Philippines has taken his own life, broken by the same work that fills her days, the endless sorting of beheadings, torture, livestreamed suicides, the abuse of children. She gives herself two days of rest, then extends her stay, no longer sure she can return to the screen. A booked massage brings her to Jenny, a Filipina domestic worker who tends bodies as a sideline, and the ordinary hour becomes something neither expected. Two women carrying different absences find a way to be seen. Where the screen once only wounded, a new image begins to heal.