Sul vivo

The Via Emilia changes and becomes an open-air museum: hidden installations - although architecturally majestic - invite us to shift our perspective, to rethink the journeys that we thought we knew by heart.

What is a mother? When 25-year-old Dania discovers she is pregnant, she decides to turn her uncertainty into a film. Meeting women of different ages, backgrounds, and perspectives, she explores how each of them lives or has chosen not to live motherhood. "Tua Madre" is both a personal and collective journey through fears, desires, and imposed roles. It challenges the idealized, socially mandated image of the mother, using irony and sensitivity to investigate the lights and shadows of this enduring myth.

Due to socio-political issues in the country, it has become questionable to what extent the decision to leave the home country is forced. The community that is needed to establish better conditions and consequently slow down the trend of emigration due to the same problem remains weakened. These and many other factors lead to devastating statistics and the increasingly present problems of contemporary Croatian society. Žal, allegorically representing the country, tries to find the complex causes of the problem.

A guy in a depressive state is addicted to television and can no longer distinguish fact from fiction. One night he stumbles upon a bizarre red light channel...

A surgeon steals from the clinic where he works as an endoscopist a video report of a colonoscopy of a patient suffering from rectal cancer, for the purpose of masturbation. In this film the anus is inserted into the iconographic image of the keyhole through which the voyeur spies on his object of desire.

Cosimo, an impetuous and idealistic scion of an aristocratic family, has decided to leave his home and live alone in the woods, rejecting society and his parents, whom he deeply loathes. On Christmas Eve, his twin brother Biagio goes looking for him in the depths of the forest to convince him to return home, even if only for one night.

A submissive boy, after being beaten for the umpteenth time by his boyfriend, prepares a dinner with special ingredients to take revenge.

In this grotesque and surreal short film, a sex addicted boy is awakened in the middle of the night by his talking penis, which persuade him to seek a fleeting fling.

Ruzzle and Neuro are a couple with an unhealthy relationship who are facing a rough patch. Ruzzle has left his partner and now sleeps on a park bench and manages to survive alone; his boyfriend will try to convince him to get back together, promising not to lay hands on him again.