original title:
L'ombra di Caino
directed by:
cast:
screenplay:
Antonio De Palo, Raffaella Messina
cinematography:
editing:
set design:
costume design:
music:
producer:
production:
Peperonitto film, Inthelfilm, Hana-Bi Productions, Altera Studio with the support of Consiglio Regionale della Puglia, Garante dei detenuti Puglia, Garante dei Minori Puglia, Comune di Molfetta, Regione Lazio, Apulia Film Commission
country:
Italy
year:
2016
film run:
30'
format:
colour
aspect ratio:
2.39:1
status:
Ready (10/01/2016)
festivals & awards:
November 5th, 2025. Western metropolis. Young inspector Abel is grappling with the umpteenth disappearance: Angela, a 9-year-old girl, of whom there has been no news for two days. For more than ten years there have been many disappearances of children . Numbers assume alarming proportions; the police are indicted. Ada is a young woman of thirty whose daughter was kidnapped some years before. From that day on she has led a personal investigation searching for the truth. Eddi, a transsexual in his sixties, is the host of a late night radio programme. Together with Agnes, he founded an association that through various propaganda activities, including the radio, struggles to find the truth. On the night of November 5th the stories of these characters will be inexorably intertwined, leading us to a bitter and shocking discovery.
DIRECTOR’S NOTES:
“Cain’s Shadow” is set in the dialectics between violence and nonviolence, proposing a reflection on a real construction of meaning for the future. Therefore, in a place and at a time when the frantic search for material wellbeing blinds man, denying him the chance to look towards the future; the intention is to develop an ethical conflict of generations that puts adults in comparison with what, by definition, we could define the generation of the future: children. Intergenerational conflict: present and future. Investigating the meaning and intention of adults to build a future, leading to a reflection on the construction of tomorrow on an ethical basis.