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streaming > The Shortest Day 2022

On December 21st, the shortest day of the year, we present an entertaining program of quirky, amusing, and insightful short films representing some of the best emerging talents in Italian cinema. During the shortest day of the year the Italian Cultural Institute of Washington celebrates International Short Film Day in collaboration with the Italian Short Film Center. For your convenience, we are streaming these same shorts online between December 24th and 31st.

This year we present a selection of six Italian contemporary shorts of different genres, all of them acclaimed by International Audience. 

 

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Various Directors
Total runtime: 75 minutes
Shorts in English and Italian with relevant Subtitles

 

LOCATION
EMBASSY OF ITALY
3000 Whitehaven Street NW
Washington, DC 20009

 

Registration (streaming: December 24-31)

 

 

PLEASE NOTE: Streaming is available between December 24th at 10:30 AM (ET) and December 31st at 10:30 PM (ET). After unlocking the film, you have 24 hours to start viewing, and from the time you begin watching, an additional 24 hours to complete it. All streaming will end at 10:30 PM (ET) on December 31st, please plan the time you start watching accordingly.

Content available ONLY in the United States

 

THIS YEAR’S SHORTS

 

CREATURE

Directed by Giada Bossi , 2021 – 18′

In a small provincial village in the north, Nina, a shy and insecure young gymnast secretly adores Gio, another popular and casual girl from the village. When Gio realizes Nina’s awe towards her, he decides to make her an adept, in an ambiguous and abusive game, disorienting Nina, who, subjugated, finds herself at the mercy of Gio’s manipulations and whims, which will lead her to a point of no return, from which he will never be able to free himself, not even by changing his life and city.

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THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WIDOW IN TOWN 

Directed by Mino Capuano, 2021 – 12′

Ettore, the owner of a funeral home in a small town, lives his days without particular stimuli, until Marilena, the only woman he has truly loved, shows up at the agency. She has lost her husband, an old friend of Ettore. After so many deaths, this is the first that Ettore touches and that will make him reflect on life.

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MISTRAL

Directed by Nico Bonomolo, 2021 – 10′

A man goes to work and sees a boat for sale. He dreams of leaving his life behind. He leaves, and the dream gives way to memory, the mistral forces him to a makeshift landing. A woman, another story, a new beginning? As in an Escher drawing, everything starts again where it seemed to have ended.

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MAMI WATA

Directed by Paola Ortolani, 2021 – 9′

Gaia lives with her adoptive grandmother in a rural house. She has a special relationship with a white lily plant she grew in her grandmother’s land. Cristina is the daughter of a very powerful entrepreneur. She is different from all little girls. Her skin, diaphanous because she is albino, creates a wall of distance with the surrounding reality. When her father, an unscrupulous man, wants the land of Gaia’s grandmother, Cristina rebels. A story of a pure and simple friendship, Mami Wata takes its name from an African divinity, a symbol of water and the duality of nature: pure and uncontaminated, rebellious and free.

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NIGHT DROPS

Directed by Giuseppe Ferreri, 2022 – 10′

In the municipal swimming pool every evening a woman swims in total solitude. With each stroke, thoughts melt, flow away and the torment subsides. But many times not even water is able to erase the deepest obsessions.

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I WANTED TO BE GASSMAN

Directed by Cristian Scardigno, 2021 – 16′

1962. Aldo Marianecci, a 40 year old actor seeking his big break, returns to his hometown, Cisterna di Latina. He will spend the weekend with his lifetime buddies and with a young American woman met on a movie set in Rome. His days will go by waiting for a call that might finally change his life.

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