Mare Contro
YEAR
2024
WHERE
Puglia, Italy
Length
12’
Direction
Paola Verardi
GENRE
Short Film
Screenplay
Paola Verardi, Fabio Sieni e Luana Giacovelli
CAST
Juxhin Plovishti
Loredana Gjeci
Stefania Ciccarelli
Serena de Sario
Fabio Cursio Giacobbe
Marco Pezzella
Director of Photography
Marco Ranieri
PRODUCER
Ivan D’Ambrosio, Maria Teresa Favia and Genc Permeti
EDITING
Simona Debernardis
Production
Dinamo Film and Skandal Production
Music
Kekko Fornarelli
Selected at
Globo d’Oro Nomination
Basilicata International Film Festival
Briganti Film Festival
Med-Limes – al Confine del Mediterraneo
E Fu Cinema Short Film Festival
Foggia Film Festival
Taranto Eco Film Festival
Corti Sonanti
Festival del Cinema Europeo
With the contribution of
Apulia Region, Apulia Film Commission Foundation from resources of the PO FESR Puglia 2014/2020, Axis VI, Action 6.8, Interventions for the competitive repositioning of tourist destinations, under the intervention sheet “Promoting Cinema 2023”
PLOT
It is 1997 and civil war has erupted in Albania. A small community is organizing to reach their loved ones who have emigrated to Italy by sea. Artur, a young musician, joins them to be reunited with his mother Luisa. Landing in Bari, he joins the Italian family caring for his mother. While Luisa battles cancer, Artur dreams of becoming an Italian citizen. Artur wakes up in the hospital a few years later. Luisa’s condition has worsened and her last wish is to return to her homeland. Artur is left with one last challenge: to cross the sea in the opposite direction.