original title:
Le civette dormono in piedi
directed by:
cast:
Anna Lou Toudjan, Adele Della Corte, Caterina Fiocchetti, Nicola Boccari, Mattia Fiorentini, Carla Cicioni, Giorgia Aluigi, Margherita Blois, Lisa Sponticcia, Vanessa Mattei Scarpaccini
cinematography:
Lorenzo Mancini
editing:
Stefano Domenichetti Carlini
costume design:
Augustina Castellani
music:
Leonardo Takashi (Elan Rood) Cipriani
production:
distribution:
country:
Italy
year:
2023
film run:
15'
format:
colour
status:
Ready (17/01/2023)
festivals & awards:
Solange is a twenty-year-old professional French dancer when she is called by an Italian company for a show. The Dance Macabre will be staged and Solange will play “The Death”. That’s paradoxical because she has just lost her brother Mathieu. She always wears a medallion around her neck. It's the only thing that keeps her tied to him. It's when she loses the medallion that Solange begins to live in two dimensions: the world of the living, of which she doesn't feel a part because she's tied to memories, and the world of the dead, a dimension she can't and shouldn't cross. When she meets Hermes, the ferryman of souls, she'll be forced to confront grief and decide whether to continue carrying this burden or return to living.