Alfredo, a young Italian student, is cycling through the streets of a foreign city when he is caught in a thunderstorm. Seeking shelter, he is attracted by the strange call emanating from a porn cinema that seems to have emerged from another time. Guided by his fantasies, he finds himself trapped in a perverse game: an assassin eliminates the cinema's locked-in customers one by one. Soon, he's the only one left in the theater, a fragile moth caught in the web of a giant spider.

Selections

Festival International du Film de Locarno 2023 - Pardi di domani - Concorso Internazionale / SLASH Film Festival - Vienne - compétition internationale 2023 / ToHorror - Torino Fantastic Film Festival - compétition internationale / Pink Screens Bruxelles Film Festival - compétition 2023 Brooklyn Horror Film Festival - short film competition / Every Colour In Between Film Festival - Australia ? projections à Sydney, Melourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Byron Bay, Adelaide, Perth / Sitges - Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantastic - Méliès d?or competition / Lund Fantastic Film Festival - Suède / Chéries-Chéris Festival du Film LGBTQI++ de Paris / Zagreb Film Festival - Festivals in the spotlight program 2023 / Écrans mixtes ? sélection courts métrages 2024 / 24th Landshut Short Film Festival ? Allemagne ? International competition / Cinémarges 2024 - Bordeaux

Prices

SLASH Film Festival - Vienne - Méliès d?argent 2023
Audience award 2023 - ToHorror Fantastic Film Festival - Turin

FIUME FIUME

fiume makes militant films, documentaries and fictions, videos cobbled together from archive footage and memories. H?ro?nes, his first produced film, tells the story of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore's mad resistance in Jersey in the 1940s. After the giallo La Vedova nera, he pursued his passion for genre films with an anticipation short film.

JULIAN MCKINNON

Julian McKinnon (Italy/UK, 1986) is a screenwriter based in Marseille. His collaborative work with French filmmaker and activist fiume challenges dominant representations of gender and agency through a subversive queer lens. Together, they traverse genres such as surrealism, vampire film, and Italian giallo. La Vedova nera is their second short film and Julian's directorial debut.