Le civette dormono in piedi

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Le civette dormono in piedi

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:

country:

Italy

year:

2023

film run:

15'

format:

colour

status:

Ready (17/01/2023)

festivals & awards:

  • First-Time Filmmaker Session, Lift-Off Session 2023: Official Selection
  • Falvaterra Film Festival 2024: Selezione Ufficiale
  • Festival del Cinema di Cefalù 2023: Nominee
  • Longless Film Festival 2024: Selezione ufficiale

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.