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Davide Palella

Born October 5, 1996 · Novi Ligure (age 29)

Davide Palella (1996, Italy) graduates in Media Design & Multimedia Arts at NABA (Milan) in 2019. The same year he directs his first medium-length film, Sirio (38', fiction, 2019), being selected for various festivals including: Filmmaker Festival (Milan), Slow Film Festival (Mayfield) and Fuorinorma (Rome). In April 2021 he's selected at the In Progress MFN development workshop, having as a ment…

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Sonnenstube

Sonnenstube · 2022

MovieDocumentaryScience Fiction

Sergio Cortesi dedicated his life to solar observation. At the “Specola solare” in Locarno, between 1957 and 2021, he made over 15.000 sunspots drawings, driven by the faith of a monk to whom his own god never gave an answer.

Sirio

A boy lives alone in the desert. He spends the day gathering firewood, waiting for an old man to provide him of the essentials to his survival.

Uranium Hunters

Uranium Hunters · 2025

Uranium Hunters

MovieScience Fiction

Planet Earth, year 2960 AD. A group of uranium hunters returns to the blue planet in search of the precious metal. The crackling of the Geiger counter leads one team member deep into a cave. There, the explorer encounters an ancient relic from the old world, awakening it from a slumber that had lasted for centuries, perhaps millennia.

Sado

MovieDocumentary

Since the seventh century AD, Sado has been called the "island of exile". Unwelcomed people by the shogunate such as homeless, artists and politicians were exiled, some of them even put to forced labour in the mines. Their spirits, trapped in the depths of the earth, will never see the sky again.

A Short Film About Vanishing

A Short Film About Vanishing · 2024

A Short Film About Vanishing

It’s late at night when Etna begins to erupt. Volcanologists fear an unprecedented explosion, the area must be evacuated. A researcher decides to reach the summit crater to record a testimony: he’s sure the volcano is trying to tell him something.

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Sonnenstube

Sonnenstube · 2022

MovieDocumentaryScience Fiction

Sergio Cortesi dedicated his life to solar observation. At the “Specola solare” in Locarno, between 1957 and 2021, he made over 15.000 sunspots drawings, driven by the faith of a monk to whom his own god never gave an answer.

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Sirio

A boy lives alone in the desert. He spends the day gathering firewood, waiting for an old man to provide him of the essentials to his survival.

Director

Uranium Hunters

Uranium Hunters · 2025

Uranium Hunters

MovieScience Fiction

Planet Earth, year 2960 AD. A group of uranium hunters returns to the blue planet in search of the precious metal. The crackling of the Geiger counter leads one team member deep into a cave. There, the explorer encounters an ancient relic from the old world, awakening it from a slumber that had lasted for centuries, perhaps millennia.

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Sado

MovieDocumentary

Since the seventh century AD, Sado has been called the "island of exile". Unwelcomed people by the shogunate such as homeless, artists and politicians were exiled, some of them even put to forced labour in the mines. Their spirits, trapped in the depths of the earth, will never see the sky again.

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A Short Film About Vanishing

A Short Film About Vanishing · 2024

A Short Film About Vanishing

It’s late at night when Etna begins to erupt. Volcanologists fear an unprecedented explosion, the area must be evacuated. A researcher decides to reach the summit crater to record a testimony: he’s sure the volcano is trying to tell him something.

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