41 PARALLELO Screenings: 5 Shorts + Bellocchio’s The Conviction

In collaboration with Napoli Film Festival. All films are in ENGLISH or have ENGLISH subtitles.

5 Short Films from the Napoli Film Festival (84 min.):

Once Upon a Time a Kid (Winner of Best Short Film)
(Poland, 2016, 25 min.)
by Francesco Eramo
Tom is a wannabe writer. He’s making a living working as an operator in a call center. A sterile and repetitive routine leads him to apathy and to be the victim of a creative block. Unable to react, the implosion of his feelings wil lead to a detachment from reality.

Mare d’argento [Silver Sea]
(Italy, 2015, 20 min.)
by Carlos Solito
The film was born from the intention to celebrate the magic of the olive tree grove PUGLIA – with its farms, stonewalls, rock settlements – in the territory of Fasano (in the province of Brindisi). The most representative beauties of this place are represented through the view and the adventures of a hero/child, Vittorino.

Ratzinger vuole tornare [Ratzinger Wants to Return]
(Italy, 2016, 10 min.)
by Valerio Vestoso
Having gotten back in shape, Joseph Ratzinger wants to run for Pope again, so he relies on his manager’s goliardy to turn around his media image as he always wanted to.

Stanza 52 [Room 52]
(Italy, 2016, 13 min.)
by Maurizio Braucci
In a five-star hotel in Naples, Room 52 has something magical and mysterious about it. Only Serena is aware of this. She is a wacky waitress in her fifties who despite a difficult life has not lost her smile. As she does the cleaning, Serena asks the room about the destiny of her late husband.

L’ultima orazione [The Last Prayer]
(Italy, 2016, 16 min.)
by Gustav Baldassini
A black comedy centered on the theme of memory and what each of us leaves behind after death and how these can be manipulated by the perceptions of those saying goodbye to friends and family members. This is where Giorgio Priscoli comes in. His funeral home offers a new package: to alter and enhance those memories left behind by the deceased.

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A Tribute to Actor Vittorio Mezzogiorno (1972-1994)
On the 75th anniversary of his birth

La condanna [The Conviction]
(Italy/France/Switzerland, 1991, 92 min.)
by Marco Bellocchio

In Italy, student Sandra Celestini is visiting a museum in a castle with her class led by the architect Lorenzo Colajanni. Distracted, Sandra finds herself locked alone in the castle and soon she stumbles upon Lorenzo. After a night of passion, she learns that Lorenzo has the key and they could have left the castle. Soon Sandra accuses Lorenzo of rape and sues him. He is found guilty and sent to prison.

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