Silent Wars

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Silent Wars (Voci nel buio)

Silent Wars (Voci nel buio)

Silent Wars (Voci nel buio)

original title:

Voci nel buio

directed by:

cast:

Laura Pellicciari, Giuseppe Cocevari, François Bruzzo Delle Piume, Xenia Gugliatti, Nina Benedetti, Marco Cossutta, Eva Mauri, Alessandro Barberio, Gradimir Nisic

cinematography:

set design:

Rosalie El Hadj

costume design:

Marialisa Zurlo

music:

Fabian Perez Tedesco

production:

Kineofilm, Studio Arkadena, with the support of Fondo per l’Audiovisivo Friuli Venezia Giulia, Fondo per il Cinema Sloveno

distribution:

country:

Italy/Slovenia

year:

2013

film run:

89'

format:

DCP - colour

release date:

02/01/2013

festivals & awards:

  • Seminci - Valladolid International Film Festival 2014: Ermanno Olmi
  • Shanghai International Film Festival 2013: Spectrum
  • Festival Internazionale di Murcia - IBAFF 2013: Jury Mention
  • SEEfest - South East European Film Festival Los Angeles 2013
  • Film Festival Città del Vasto 2013: First Prize
  • Festival Internazionale del Cinema di Fano 2013: Prize
  • Festival Underdiciotto - Torino 2014
  • Festival delle Città Sostenibili – Foligno 2014

The story of a professor working at the university who quit with everything in order to expiate the eye’s sickness of his son.
The total blindness of Giovanni drives Angelo towards a crisis that seems to be with no solution.
But from his socially involved past frightening shadows appear, helping him to find himself again and to go back to his father’s role.