original title:
Il respiro dell'arco
directed by:
cast:
Michele Botrugno, Germano Gentile, Giulia Bertinelli, Simone Ruggiero, Gianluca Vicari, Roberto Antonelli, Nicola Canal
screenplay:
cinematography:
Luca Frondoni
editing:
set design:
Valeria Di Claudio
costume design:
production:
country:
Italy
year:
2011
film run:
10'
format:
35mm - colour
status:
Ready (14/07/2011)
festivals & awards:
A girl tries to attune her breathing to the movement of her bow. Arrow after arrow. Her instructor counsels her to stay calm, to maintain her concentration during the training; she is too tense. But what he doesn't know is the reason behind her nervousness; the girl has a secret plan, a raging dream she wants to transform into reality. Behind her sporting talent, in a sanitised discipline that has been reduced to the pull and release of the arrow, is hidden her need to retrieve a primitive, violent instinct.