Emma
A boy is very worried about the seemingly inexplicable disappearance of his psychoanalyst. Everything that happens to him, from that moment, reveals strange coincidences.
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Alex CantarelliDirector
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Alex CantarelliWriter
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TCM, AC Films/Theatre, LabaslabyrinthProducer
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Ivan Di BelloKey Cast"P."
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Giulia CoralliniKey Cast
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Antonio Eugenio MacrìKey Cast
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Rosa BuschiKey Cast"Emma"
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Claudia NazziconeKey Cast
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Antonella CaùtiKey Cast
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Rita FotiKey Cast"Psychoanalyst"
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Gabriella PortaKey Cast
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Alex CantarelliOriginal music
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Alex CantarelliCinematography
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Project Type:Short
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Runtime:14 minutes 57 seconds
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Completion Date:February 5, 2019
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Production Budget:500 USD
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Country of Origin:Italy
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Country of Filming:Italy
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Language:English, Italian
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:2.35:1
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Film Color:Black & White
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
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Festival Corto Corrente - Città di Fiumicino - Best CinematographyFiumicino
Italy
November 22, 2019
Best Cinematography
Alex Cantarelli (1970) is an italian playwright and director. He graduated in Philosophy and directed over 50 shows in theatre. He published in 2014 a collection of dystopian short stories ("2142"). Emma is his first short movie.
Emma is a minimalistic short movie. Young actors, an old woman with no movie's experience. The suburbian deserted streets, the roman seaside. My will is to hit the audience through simplicity and symbols.
The movie developed from a single simple fact: to disappear with no reason. I tried to figure out how who is left alone can feel himself about it.
Emma is basically a movie about absence and about what is that absence leaves inside us. To quote the famous medieval sentence: nothing lasts, only names.
EMMA has won a prize for Best Cinematography in "Corto Corrente" Città di Fiumicino Festival, in November 2019.