RESTARE
Fabio Bobbio
Short Film
(Italia, 20' 2025)
(2025) SETTIMANA INTERNAZIONALE DELLA CRITICA / festival di venezia (italia)
(2025) Ortigia film festival (italia)
(2025) Ortigia film festival (italia)
On her last day behind the diner counter, Sara is preparing to leave the province to pursue her dreams. Denis watches her, trying to hold back what they both fear they will lose. In a crystallized, suspended landscape, their farewell reveals the depth of their bond and the heart-wrenching intensity of their separation.
"Remains stems from the desire of both authors to confront some shared autobiographical elements, such as the sense of belonging and separation. Sara and Denis are two contemporary characters in their late twenties, portrayed at a turning point in their lives. They are archetypes of their generation, despite the isolated and rural context in which they live. Remains is a contemporary coming-of-age story, combining typical European art-house cinema with new rural American cinema. Building a dialogue between the inner world of the two characters and their context – using a narrative where silences, gestures, and fragments of everyday life are the main means of expression – the aim is to create a cinematic experience that combines formal rigor and emotional depth in a universal visual imagery, giving viewers the space to reflect and feel empathy."
"Remains stems from the desire of both authors to confront some shared autobiographical elements, such as the sense of belonging and separation. Sara and Denis are two contemporary characters in their late twenties, portrayed at a turning point in their lives. They are archetypes of their generation, despite the isolated and rural context in which they live. Remains is a contemporary coming-of-age story, combining typical European art-house cinema with new rural American cinema. Building a dialogue between the inner world of the two characters and their context – using a narrative where silences, gestures, and fragments of everyday life are the main means of expression – the aim is to create a cinematic experience that combines formal rigor and emotional depth in a universal visual imagery, giving viewers the space to reflect and feel empathy."
Production
Ginko Film / Filmine / Malfè Film
In associacion with
Film Commission Torino Piemonte - Short Film Fund
Producers
Chiara Andrich / Enrico Cannizzo / Andrea Mura / Valerio Valente
With
Zackari Delmas / Yile Yara Vianello
Screenplay
Fabio Bobbio / Zelia Zbogar
DoP
Bruno Raciti
Editor
Enrico Giovannone
Sound
Manuel Paradiso
Sound mix
Tommaso Barbaro / Massimo Mariani
Music
Deriansky / Paolo Spaccamonti / Sierra Moreno