THE EGGREGORES’ THEORY

He does not remember much from that time. Things have faded, like the color of a painting after too much light. The only thing that bothers him is this music. It keeps popping up… He thinks he forgot what it meant. All he knows, for sure, is that he cannot get it out of his head.

CREDITS

Director
 

Andrea Gatopoulos

Genre

Experimental, Animation, Sci-Fi

Duration15′

Nationality Italy


Voice by

David Rumsey


Produced by

Eliofilm
Il Varco Cinema
Naffintusi


Producers

Ariens Damsi
Luigi Mascolo
Marco Crispano
Andrea Gatopoulos
Orazio Guarino
Marco Santoro


Editing and script supervisor

Zhenia Kazankina


Editing, titles and vfx

Andrea Gatopoulos
Ai-generation

Andrea Gatopoulos
Audio post-production

FULLCODE
Sound design & mix

Tommaso Barbaro
Sound editing

Luca Canzano
Additional music

Giorgio Labagnara

International Sales

Gargantua Film

Contact

Gargantua Film
administration@gargantuafilm.it

AWARDS AND SELECTIONS

2024 World Premiere – Opening Film

39. Settimana Internazionale della Critica Festival del Cinema di Venezia

2024 Onassis Award, Best Script Award

30. Athens International Film Festival

2024 – OSCAR ® / EFA ® / BAFTA ® QUALIFYING Official Selection

43. Uppsala Short Film Festival

2024 – OSCAR ® QUALIFYING Official Selection

53. Festival du Nouveau Cinéma

2024 Special Screenings

34. Message to Man International Film Festival

2024 Official Selection

7. El Gouna Film Festival

2024 – OSCAR ® / BAFTA ® QUALIFYING
Grand Award and EFA Nomination Winner

66. ZINEBI Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Films

2024 Official Selection

6. Castrovillari Film Festival

2024 Official Selection

42. Sulmona International Film Festival

2024 Official Selection

1. AI.motion – Festival Italiano del Cinema e dell’Audiovisivo con l’Intelligenza Artificiale

2024 Official Selection

12. Bosphorus Film Festival

2024 Best Short Film

16. Gargano FilmFest

2024 – BAFTA ® QUALIFYING Official Selection

22. London Short Film Festival

2024 Special Screening during the How to survive a robot apocalypse Masterclass

12. Ajyal Film Festival

2024 Opening Film New Aesthetic Program

18. KFFK – Kurzfilmfestival Köln

2024 Official Selection

21. Accordi @ DISACCORDI – Festival internazionale del cortometraggio

2024 Official Selection

21. Corto Dorico Film Festival

2024 Best Short Film

8. Beijing International Short Film Festival

2024 Official Selection

20. Festival del Cortometraggio Mediterraneo – Passaggi D’Autore: Intrecci Mediterranei

2024 Official Selection

2. Cagliari Essay Film

2024 Official Selection

36. Aguilar Film Festival

2024 Official Selection

17. Festival CinemaZERO

2024 Miglior Film d’Artista

8. The Next Generation Short Film Festival

2025 – BAFTA, OSCAR ® QUALIFYING Official Selection

47. Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival

2025 Official Selection

25. Landshut Short Film Festival

2025 Official Selection

9. IBIZACINEFEST – Ibiza International Independent Film Festival

2025 Official Selection

16. Psarokokalo International Short Film Festival

2025 Best Concept Award

12. Winter Apricots: Prilep International Film Festival

2025 Official Selection

19. Prague Shorts Film Festival

2025 Official Selection

12. ClujShorts International Short Film Festival

2025 – OSCAR ® / EFA ® QUALIFYING Generation XYZ Competition Winner

55. Tampere Film Festival

2025 Lucid Dream Category Winner

3. Lucid Dream Festival

2025 Official Selection

40. VIDEOFORMES Hybrid and Digital Arts

2024 Official Selection

20. 20minmax International Short Film Festival Ingolstadt

Las Memorias Perdidas de los Árboles

In the heart of the Peruvian Amazon forest, two trees awaken in the night and embark on a spiritual journey to discover a past when they were two sibling children. A sensory and symbolic reflection on depression and the “demons” that silently devour the mental health of our loved ones.

Crew

scritto e diretto da
 ANTONIO LA CAMERA

un film creato durante il CreatorsLab
 APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL LAB: FILMING IN THE AMAZON

con la supervisione di
 APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL

Interpretato da 
MICHEL ISIOSHEARJAN MIJE OKIOSHE MEJEEYOEL EKIOY TIOSHEZARA MESHI MIHAHEJAHUANE VIASHEMO FELIX

e i membri della
COMUNITA’ NATIVA DI PALMA REAL, PERÙ

prodotto da
 PLAYLAB FILMS in co-produzione con 
WATERCLOCK PRODUCTION NAFFINTUSI IL VARCO CINEMA OUDEIS PICTURES

produttori esecutivi
 ESTEPHANIA BONNETT
A NDREA GATOPOULOS

co-produttori
 ANDREA GAROFALO ORAZIO GUARINO MARCO SANTORO
 ANDREA GATOPOULOS 
MARCO CRISPANO STEFANO SCHIAVONE ANTONIO LA CAMERA

produttori associati
 CAROLINA D’ANDREA DOMENICO LA CAMERA SARA SCALERA 
GIUSEPPINA VIGGIANO

fotografia, montaggio ed effetti visivi
 ANTONIO LA CAMERA

registrazione del suono
 JEFF REICHERTANTONIO LA CAMERA sound designers ANTONIO LA CAMERA BORIS D’AGOSTINO re-recording mixer
 BORIS D’AGOSTINO

assistenti alla regia
 TALIA SHEA LEVINKENIA GUILLEN ORTEGA production managers BERTA GARCÍA-LACHT
LAURA OTÁLORA production assistants PAVEL MARTIARENAHENRY ESPINOGABRIEL MESETH fotografie di scena
 MARC GARCÍASANDRA PEREDA BURGA alloggio e ristorazione
 INKATERRA HOTELS

sponsor 
INKATERRA
ROYAL THAI EMBASSY
 GALILEO FIGARÒ LTD

in collaborazione con
 CENTRO CULTURAL PUCP 
FESTIVAL DE CINE DE LIMA
CINEPLEX
PERÙ

VIGGIANO, FRANCESCO VITALE, KEVIN WALKER

distribuzione e vendite
  GARGANTUA FILM DISTRIBUTION

2023
Best Short Film
38. Settimana Internazionale della Critica Festival del Cinema di Venezia
 
2023
Out Of Competition Screening
4. i-Fest International Film Festival
 
2023 – OSCAR ® QUALIFYING
Official Selection
24. Izmir International Short Film Festival
 
2023
Official Selection Premio Emidio Greco
24. Festival del Cinema Europeo
 
2023
Laura Bassi Student Jury Special Mention
3. Terraviva Film Festival
 
2023
Official Selection
48. Laceno D’Oro International Film Festival
 
2023
Official Selection
12. Mostra de Cinema Italià de Barcelona
 
2023
WeShort Award
7. The Next Generation Short Film Festival
 
2023
Best Short Film
2. Gelsomini Film Festival
2024 – GOYA ® Qualifying
Official Selection
8. IBIZACINEFEST – Ibiza Independent Film Festival
 
2024
Official Selection
29. Vilnius International Film Festival Kino Pavasaris
 
2024 – OSCAR ® QUALIFYING
Official Selection
63. Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival
 
2024
Official Selection
1. La Citta dell’Utopia International Film Festival
 
2024
Official Selection
17. La Nueva Ola – Festival del Cinema Spagnolo e Latinoamericano.
 
2024
Special Mention for Audiovisual Experimentation
5. Free Aquila Festival
 
2024
Official Selection
5. NaNo Film Festival
 
2024
Official Selection
17. Bali International Film Festival Balinale
 
2024
Official Selection
27. Festival Cinemambiente
 
2024
Official Selection
9. Cinemaeambiente Avezzano
 
2024
Official Selection
22. Ischia Film Festival
 
2024
Official Selection
28. Umbria Film Festival
 
2024
Finalist
22. Premio Internazionale Cinearti La Chioma di Berenice
 
2024
Special Jury prize
11. Lamezia International Film Fest
 
2024
Official Selection
24. FICICA – Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Cine a la Calle
 
2024
Official Selection
3. Stretto Film Festival
 
2024
Official Selection
8. Laterale Film Festival
 
2024
Official Selection
3. Aria Film Fest
 
2024
Official Selection
35. Festival Internacional de Curtas Metragens de São Paulo – Curta Kinoforum
 
2024
Official Selection
3. Mostra del Cinema di Bracciano – Bracciano International Film Exhibition
 
2024 – OSCAR ®, EFA ® QUALIFYING
Official Selection
47. Drama International Short Film Festival
 
2024
Official Selection
2. Festa del Cinema Pirata
 
2024
Best Short Film
2. Fine Line Film Fest
 
2024
Official Selection
11. Torino Underground Cinefest
 
2024
Best Short Film, Best Cinematography
4. Ceprano Film Festival
 
2024 – OSCAR ®, EFA ® QUALIFYING
Official Selection
22. Tirana International Film Festival
 
2024
Official Selection
7. Entre Dos Mundos – Festival del Cinema Iberoamericano di Firenze
 
 
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Crew

Writer and director: Andrea Gatopoulos
Produced by: Il Varco Cinema, Naffintusi, Polittico, Locarno Film Festival, CISA, RSI
Producers: Marco Crispano, Orazio Guarino, Marco Santoro, Giorgio Calogero
Sound and Mix: Tommaso Barbaro
Editing: Andrea Gatopulos

 
 

76. Locarno Film Festival
29. Sarajevo Film Festival
52. Festival du Nouveau Cinema
6. El Gouna Film Festival
29. Athens International Film Festival
13. International Short Film Festival of Cyprus
65. ZINEBI – International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao
21. Bogotà Short Film Festival
24. Izmir International Short Film Festival
29. Caminhos Film Festival
42. Filmmaker Film Festival
19. Passaggi d’Autore – Mediterranean Short Films Festival
17. Psarokokalo Film Festival
5. SANFICI Festival Santander
21. Vienna Shorts
47. Kortfilmfestivalen Grimstadt
78. Nastri d’Argento – Selezione ufficiale
11. Toko Film Fest
2. Unarchive – Found Footage Fest
20. FEST – New Directors New Film Festival
16. Leiden Shorts

Happy new Year, Jim

It’s New Year’s Eve. Jim and Morten are playing videogames all night long, like every day. But Morten tonight is uncomfortable.

directed by Andrea Gatopoulos

Cast
Jim Muzungu
Morten Hakke

Produced by
Il Varco Cinema
Naffintusi
Nieminen Film

Crew
Producers: Marco Crispano
Producers: Andrea Gatopoulos
Co-producer: Orazio Guarino
Co-producer: Marco Santoro
Co-producer: Andrea Italia

Cinematography, editing, vfx: Andrea Gatopoulos
Sound design & mix: Tommaso Barbaro
Sound editing: Massimo Mariani, Agit Utlu
Sound post-production: FULLCODE
Post-producer: Marta Zucchiatti

International Sales

Gargantua Film

Contact

Gargantua Film
administration@gargantuafilm.it

FESTIVALS

54. Quinzaine des Réalisateurs – EFA Qualifying
30. Curtas Vila Do Conde – EFA OSCAR Qualifying
28. Sarajevo Film Festival – EFA OSCAR Qualifying
25. Encounters Film Festival – EFA OSCAR BAFTA Qualifying
20. Tirana Film Festival – EFA OSCAR Qualifying
51. Festival Nouveau Cinema – OSCAR Qualifying
28. Athens Film Festival
28. Fantastic Fest – MELIES D’ARGENT Qualifying
9. Riga Internațional Film Festival – EFA ® QUALIFYINEFA ® QUALIFYING
49. Film Fest Gent
67. Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid – Seminci – EFA ® QUALIFYING
10. Ajyal Film Festival
51. Alcine Festival Internacional de Cine
28. Festival Caminhos Cinema Português
28. Kortfilmfestival Leuven EFA ® QUALIFYING
42. Filmmaker Festival
27. Capri, Hollywood
15. Festival CinemaZero
35. JEF Festival
18. Pragueshorts Film Festival
36. Semana del Cine Medina del Campo
5. Milan Machinima Festival
35. Dresden Film Festival
6. Adriatic Film Festival
2. Short Out Film Festival
4. Vertigo International Short Film Festival
24. Scrittura e Immagine Short Film Festival
5. Castrovillari Film Festival
29. L’Étrange Festival
5. Desenzano Film Festival
29. Visioni Italiane
41. Sulmona International Film Festival
18. 20minmax International Short Film Festival Ingolstadt
24. Festival del Cinema Europeo
36. Minimalen Short Film Festival
9. Filmfest Bremen

Tina

L’arte, l’amore e la vita avventurosa di Tina Modotti, una delle più grandi fotografe mondiali.

The art, love and adventurous life of Tina Modotti, one of the world’s greatest photographers.

OUT SOON

STATUS : PRE PRODUCTION

Directed by Francesco Raganato

Written by Francesco Raganato

Produced by Scirocco film – Naffintusi

LuxSanta

Il mito e la tradizione millenaria del fuoco di Santa Lucia raccontati attraverso gli occhi e le gesta di adolescenti sulle rive dello Ionio.

The myth and the millenary tradition of the fire of Saint Lucia narrated through the eyes and deeds of teenagers on the shores of the Ionian Sea.

STATUS : IN THEATERS

Directed by Matteo Russo

Written by Matteo Russo and Carlo Gallo

Produced by : Orazio Guarino, Marco Santoro

Executive producer: Vincenzo D’Arpe

d.o.p : Benjamin Manenti

Editing: Mattia Soranzo

Music: Ginevra Nervi

Soud: Filippo Manni

Color correction: Rosario Balistreri

Produced by Naffintusi,in collaboration with Rai Cinema with the support  of the Fondazione Calabria Film Commission

FESTIVAL

Cannes Docs 2023

41TFF Concorso Documentari Italiani (World Premiere)

Nano Film Festival 2024

BCT Festival Nazionale del Cinema e della Televisione 2024

Castrovillari Int. Film Fest. 2024

Catania FIlm Fest. 2024

A man falling

Un cortometraggio liberamente basato sulla recensione che J.G. Ballard ha scritto del film La Jetée di Chris Marker

A short movie loosely based on the review that J.G. Ballard wrote about Chris Marker’s film La Jetée

 

Directed by Teho Teardo & Orazio Guarino

Story by Teho Teardo Written by Elisabetta Pacini
D.o.p. Emilio Costa
Music Teho Teardo
Executive producer Marco Santoro
Produced by Teho Teardo and Naffintusi

Costume designer:  Emanuela Berlingeri – Delfina Tesei
1AD : Martina Mancini
Camera operator & Steady: Emilio M. Costa
1AC : Marco Valerio Carrara
2AC & Data wrangler : Filippo Salvestri
Gaffer: Stefano Pistonesi
Electrician : Manuel Pistonesi
Color Correction : Rosario Balistreri

CAST
Michele Riondino
Liliana Cavani

VOICES
Enda Walsh – Radio Speaker
Blixa Bargled – Animals voices

SALES & DISTRIBUTION : Naffintusi Sales info@naffintusi.com

FESTIVALS

Trieste Science+Fiction Festival 2021

Festival del Cinema Europeo Lecce 2021

Festival del Cinema di Salerno 2021

Laceno d’oro 2021

FMK – XX Edizione festival Internazionale del cortometraggio Pordenone 2024

 
Amal

 “Amal” è un uomo burbero e silenzioso rimasto solo al mondo. Decide di trascorrere la sua esistenza ai margini del villaggio impiegando tutto il suo tempo ad aggiustare una vecchia auto che ha trasformato in un’abitazione. Il ricordo della perdita della donna amata continua a tormentare la sua mente. Lasciare tutto e partire alla ricerca di un posto dove poter ricominciare, sembra l’unica soluzione per l’uomo. Ma ben presto, capirà che l’unico viaggio da compiere è dentro sé stesso.

“Amal” is a quite and crusty man who remained alone in the world. He decides to spend its existence in the outskirts of the village by fixing an old car that he turned into his own house. The memory of his wife loss continues to haunt his mind. The only solution is to abandon everything for a new place where to start a new life. Soon, he will realize that the only journey to make is within himself.

Written by Luisa Gigliotti, Matteo Russo, Antonio Buscema
Directed by Matteo Russo & Antonio Buscema
With Mohamed Zouaoui, Mariam Al Ferjani

DP Emilio M. Costa
Set Designer Giulia Carnevali
Costume Designer Irene Trovato
Music by Alessandro Franco
Edit by Gianluca Conca
Sound Francesco Murano, Alessandro Di Maio

Produced by MakèFilm

Co-produced by Naffintusi

FESTIVALS

Lucca film Festival (World Premiere)

Phlegraean Film Festival 2020 (Best ACTOR)

9° VISIONI CORTE (OFFICIAL SELECTION)

Foggia Film Festival 2021 (OFFICIAL SELECTION)
North Bellarine Film Festival 2020 (OFFICIAL SELECTION)
Festival Internazionale del Cinema di Frontiera 2020 (WINNER grand jury)
La Flame

Steso sul letto, in posizione fetale, un uomo aspetta una chiamata. Controlla morbosamente il telefono fino a quando la telefonata arriva. Sarà questo l’ultimo passo verso una sua caduta definitiva o finalmente la sua occasione di rinascita?

Lying on the bed, in a fetal position, a man is waiting for a phonecall. He morbidly checks the phone until the call comes.Will this be the last step towards his definitive fall or finally his chance for rebirth?

2019 / 13 Min.

Regia : Orazio Guarino

Produttore esecutivo : Marco Santoro

D.o.p. : Davide Manca

Musica : Teho Teardo

Scenografia : Dario Nolè

Costumi : Floriana Serani

CAST : Felix Maritaud

Produzione : Naffintusi

SALES & DISTRIBUTION : Naffintusi Sales

FESTIVALS

Social World Film Festival 2020 International Competition
Cinemadamare Main Competition 2020
Olbia Film Network 2020
Festival del Cinema Europeo 2020
Benevento BCT Festival 2020
Festival international du film court ed du documentaire de Casablanca 2020
Lamezia terme international film festival 2019, Premio del Pubblico.
Visioni corte international film festival 2019
Gaeta cortofiction italia 2019
Yes Let’s Make a Movie Film Festival 2019 , Montreal

Sp1ral

Matteo Moella è un regista controverso ma di successo. Vive e lavora a New York dove è anche in riabilitazione per curare il disturbo borderline di cui soffre da anni. Durante le prove del suo ultimo lavoro, una telefonata dall’Italia lo avverte della morte di suo padre. Matteo lascia New York e la sua vita per tornare al paese dove è cresciuto e alla casa al mare che il padre gli ha lasciato. La spiaggia della sua infanzia diventa il suo rifugio, inaccessibile a tutti tranne che ad Alice, una ragazza giovane e bella, che sembrerebbe aprire una breccia nel muro che Matteo ha eretto tra lui e il resto del mondo. Ma i suoi fantasmi, sempre presenti, lo trascinano di nuovo in una spirale di ricordi e ossessioni da cui sarà sempre più difficile uscire.

Matteo Moella is a controversial but successful director. He lives and works in New York where he is also in rehab to treat the bordeline disorder, from which he suffers for years. During the rehearsals of his latest work, a phone call from Italy warning him of the death of his father.  Matteo leaves New York and his life to return to his hometown and to the beach-house that his father left to him. The beach the beach of his childhood became his refuge, inaccessible to everyone except Alice, a young and beautiful girl, which would seem to breach the wall that Matteo has erected between him and all the rest. But his ghosts, always present, drag him again into a spiral of obsessions and memories from which it will be increasingly difficult to get out.

2016 / 93 Min.

Regia: Orazio Guarino
Prodotto da: Marco Santoro, Orazio Guarino
Con: Marco Cocci, Valeria Nardilli, Mariagrazia Pompei, Stefano Skalkotos, Giulia Brunamonti, Angelo Del vecchio

DATA DI USCITA    21 APRILE 2016

FESTIVALS

PARMA INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FILM FESTIVAL 2016 (OFFICIAL SELECTION)
REGGIO CALABRIA FILM FESTIVAL 2015, DECEMBER 2015 (OFFICIAL SELECTION)
Audience award @TERRA DI SIENA FILM FESTIVAL 2015 SIENA, OCTOBER 2015 (OFFICIAL SELECTION)
LIVE CINEMA FESTIVAL 2015 ROMA. SEPTEMBER 2015 (only teaser premiere)