21st SALENTO INTL FILM FESTIVAL

Selected Films

FEATURE FILMS

Special Screening
MY PLACE IS HERE
Directed by Cristiano Bortone & Daniela Porto
Italy 2024 | 110 min. | Italian language

DESIRÈ |Directed by Mario Vezza
Italy 2023 | 101 min.
Language: Italian with English subtitles

OKARINA | Directed by Alban Zogjani
Kosovo 2023 | 93 min.
Language: Albanian with Italian subtitles

SUNFLOWERS | Directed by Catrinel Marlon
Italy 2023 | 93 min.
Language: Italian with English subtitles

CAUSE OF DEATH: UNKNOWN
Directed by Ali Zarnegar |Iran 2023 | 104 min.
Language: Persian with Italian subtitles

GLOBAL ARMONY | Directed by Fabio Massa
Italy 2024 | 95 min.
Language: English with Italian subtitles

YELLOW BUS | Directed by Wendy Bednarz
United Arab Emirates | 2023 | 109 min.
Arabic, English, Hindi subtitled in Italian

BARRIER | Directed by Maqbool Ahmad Durrani
Pakistan 2024 | 92 min.
Language; Urdu with Italian Subtitles

DUST TO DUST| Directed JONATHAN LI
Hong Kong 2023 | 112 min.
Language; Cantonese with Italian Subtitles

IN BROAD DAYLIGHT
Directed by Lawrence Kan
Hong Kong | 2023 | 116 min.
Language: Cantonese with Italian Subtitles

AS A TEARS GO BY
Directed by Wong Kar Wai
Hong Kong 1988 | 102 min.
Dubbed in Italian

DOCUMENTARIES

1768 DAYS | Directed by Marco Gallo
Italy| 2023 | 64 min.
Language: Italian with English subtitles

DINO’S DARK ROOM
Directed by Corrado Rizza | Italy 2023 | 80′
Language: Italian with English subtitles

UNITED FOR BISSAU |Directed by Iara Lee
Guinea Bissau | 2023 | 40 min.
Language: Portuguese subtitled in Italian

NO PLACE IN THE WORLD
Directed by Vanina Lappa.
Italy| 2023 | 85 min.
Language: Italian with English subtitles

BIOPATRIARCHI
Directed by Lorenzo Scaraggi
Italy | 2023 | 70 min.
Language: Italian

FLAVIO PAOLUCCI
Direcred by Villi Hermann
Switzerland | 2024 | 65 min.
Language: Italian with English subtitles

SHORT FILMS

ASSUNTA
Directed by Luana Rondinelli
Italy 2023 | 9′
WOMEN IN CINEMA

UP, UP AND AWAY
Direcred by Kai Yin Canice Tam
Hong Kong 2023 | 14′
WOMEN IN CINEMA

THE CAPTIVITIES
Directed by Silvia Jiménez
Mexico 2023 | 7 ‘
WOMEN IN CINEMA

THE WATER OF SAINT JOHN
Directed by Anna Claudia Bassani
Italy 2023 | 19′
WOMEN IN CINEMA

GONE BEFORE YOUR EYES
Your Eyes

Directed by Cara Yeates
Canadà 2023 | 12′
WOMEN IN CINEMA

FISH
Directed by Siying Li
Cina 2023 | 14′
WOMEN IN CINEMA

INNER
Directed by Valentina Kamenova
Italy 2023 | 15′
WOMEN IN CINEMA

HIS MOTHER
Directed by Maia Scalia
USA 2023 | 14′
WOMEN IN CINEMA

SUPERTRAMP
Directed by Fabrizio Gammardella
England| 7’| ANIMATION

THE QUEEN OF FLOWERS
Directed by Ciara Leinaala Lacy
USA 2024 | 12’| ANIMATION

RELEASE NUCLEAR CONTAMINATED WATER
Directed by YIWEN CAO
Hong Kong 2024 | 14’| ANIMATION

HERB’S PAJAMAS
Directed by Todd I. Gordon
USA 2023 | 13’| INTL. SHORTS

CAPTAIN’S DAUGHTER
Directed by Alexey Petrashevich
Russia 2023 | 15′ | INTL. SHORTS

AS EASY AS CLOSING
YOUR EYES

Directed by Parker Croft
USA 2024 | 22′ | INTL. SHORTS

NEBBIA MENTALE
Directed by Simon Sepulveda
Colombia 2023 | 6′ | INTL. SHORTS

THIRD PARTIES
Directed by Antonio Palumbo
Italy 2023 | 14′ | ITALIAN SHORTS

THE LADY OF THE SEA
Directed by Roberto Leone
Italy 2024 | 20′ | ITALIAN SHORTS

FRARÌA
Directed by Alberto Diana
Italy 2023 | 19′ | ITALIAN SHORTS

THUNDERLOVE
Directed by Gabriele Scollo
Italy 2023 | 12′ | ITALIAN SHORTS

THE MANE
Directed by Payam Shadnia
Iran 2024 | 15’| FOCUS IRAN

TORANJ
Directed by Tina Ahmadi Krol
Iran 2024 | 10′ | FOCUS IRAN

NOWHERE
Directed by Erfan Parsapour
Iran 2024 | 12′ | FOCUS IRAN

A HANGMAN WAS CRYING
directed by Javad Joshanlou
Iran 2024 | 15′ | FOCUS IRAN

BOLOUR
Directed by Helia Behrooz
Iran 2024 | 16′ | FOCUS IRAN