IL RAGAZZO CHE SMISE DI RESPIRARE
THE BOY WHO STOPPED BREATHING
“Una storia solo apparentemente paradossale, che invece svela il diaframma sottile tra l’ansia individuale e la percezione di un problema opprimente come quello dell’inquinamento atmosferico. Una parabola per parlare in modo sensibile dei ragazzi di oggi e del loro domani.”
Visioni Italiane 2019, Cineteca di Bologna
A short film directed by Daniele Lince and produced by Elena Beatrice
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Max ha 11 anni, è ossessionato dall’inquinamento atmosferico e decide di smettere di respirare – o almeno vuole farlo il meno possibile per vivere più a lungo. Lo confessa a Erika, la sua migliore amica: la notizia non la sorprende. Sorpresi invece sono i genitori di Max quando lo scoprono impegnato in uno dei suoi esercizi quotidiani di apnea. I genitori lo portano da uno psicologo che, nel tentativo di aiutarlo, fa cambiare forma alla sua ossessione.
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Max is 11 years old, he is obsessed with air pollution and decides to stop breathing or at least, he wants to do it as little as possible, to live longer. He confesses this to Erika, his best friend: she doesn’t seem surprised. Instead, Max’s parents are surprised, especially when they find out during one of his daily apnea exercises. Parents take him to a psychologist who, in an attempt to help him, changes his obsession.
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Distributor: ShortsFit
Festivals:
Visioni Italiane 2019, Cineteca di Bologna – WINNER Visioni Ambientali
gLocal Film Festival 2019 – WINNER Audience Award
Fuoricampo Cinema Giovane FilmFest 2019 – WINNER Young Audience Award
T-Film International Film Festival 2019 – WINNER category “The Man and Society”
Geo Film Festival 2019/2020 – WINNER Best Actor & SPECIAL MENTION Italian Short Film
Clorofilla Film Festival, FestAmbiente 2019 – Official Selection
Pigneto Film Festival 2020 – Special Screening
Asperger Film Festival 2019 – Official Selection
Suncine, Environmental Film Festival (Ficma) 2019 – Official Selection
Accordi@Disaccordi, Festival Internazionale del Cortometraggio 2019 – Official Selection
Saturnia Film Festival 2019 – Special Screening
Patagonia Eco Film Festival 2019 – Official Selection
Reggio Film Festival 2019 – Official Selection
Short Film Festival Landau, La.Meko 2020 – Official Selection
Cine Eco Seia 2019 – Official Selection
Ridgefield Independent Film Festival 2019 – Official Selection
Kino W Trampkach 2019 (Cinema in Sneakers) – Official Selection
San Giò Verona Video Festival 2019 – Official Selection
International Short Film Festival Hacelo Corto 2020 – Official Selection
Fifej – Festival International du Film pour l’Enfance et la Jeunesse 2019 – Official Selection
Too Short To Wait by gLocal Film Festival 2019 – National Premiere
Selected by the Italian Short Film Center for the school program “Corti a Scuola 2019”
Selected by Suncine Festival for the school program “El Aula en Casa 2020” (Spain)
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Screenings:
Saladillo (Argentina), 2021, Special Screening by Hacelo Corto Festival
San Diego, April 2020, Earth Day
Torino, November 2019, Falchera FilmAmbiente
Genazzano (Roma), July 2019, Nunchi Short Film Festival, by Saltatempo APS
Carignano (Torino), July 2019, Film Festival “Diritti e Rovesci”, by Tra Me Altra-Meta & Piemonte Movie
Torino, May 2019, ASviS Festival, by IF Life Design
Elena Beatrice & Daniele Lince present
with the support of Rete al Femminile Torino and Lacumbia Film
with the support of Film Commission Torino Piemonte
“The boy who stopped breathing”
with Alex W. Syed, Virginia Ruth Cerqua, Simone Moretto, Maya Panico
and Gabriele Bocchio
original music by Simone Lampedone
songs by Nicolas Roncea
make-up Agnese de Mariarosa
production sound mixer Manuel Volpe – Rubedo Recordings and Isophonic Studio
edited by Daniele Lince
assistant directors Elena Beatrice and Roberto Tomeo
directors of photography Domenico Bruzzese and Davide Piazzolla
produced by Elena Beatrice
written and directed by Daniele Lince
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