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SLEEPING CLOSE

-Line up-
Fragments of the lives of fourteen women form a unique composition in which reality and symbolism alternate, an echo of all other possible lives.
-Synopsis-
In human adversities, there are 'topoi' that recur like variations of the same melody. Growth, pain, sacrifice, choices and, above all, love, are present in everyone's existence in a thousand forms, similar and yet unique. With the fragments of many lives, it would be possible to compose a single one in which to find the echo of all the others. In the chapters of 'Sleeping close', a woman experiences the stages of her own evolution through the changing features of fourteen female protagonists. She dies a symbolic death, only to be resurrected at the end with all those women who have gone before.
A POETIC JOURNEY INTO THE INNER WORLD OF THE HUMAN BEING, IN WHICH SEEMINGLY INSIGNIFICANT REVEAL TO US THE SUBMERGED STREAM OF A FRAGILE HUMANITY IN SEARCH OF ITFSELF.

  • Giulio Pereno
    Director
  • Giulio Pereno
    Writer
  • Olivia Paola Longoni
    Writer
  • Giulio Pereno
    Producer
  • Olivia Paola Longoni
    Producer
  • Dariya Trubina
    Key Cast
    "Maja"
  • Penelope Zaccarini
    Key Cast
    "Dafne"
  • Michelangela Battistella
    Key Cast
    "Esme"
  • Irene Cordani
    Key Cast
    "Ester"
  • Rossella Guidotti
    Key Cast
    "Celine"
  • Giulia Beretta
    Key Cast
    "Helena"
  • Amalia Stagnaro
    Key Cast
    "Alma"
  • Veronica Di Bussolo
    Key Cast
    "Erika"
  • Massimiliano Tommaso Alfì
    Music
  • Rares Gabriel Cirlan
    Sound Design e mix
  • Giada Lelli
    Make up artists
  • Edoardo Vozzella
    Make up artists
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    DORMIAMO INSIEME
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 49 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    May 14, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    0 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    France, Italy
  • Language:
    Italian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Verona International Film Festival
    Verona
    Italy
    September 7, 2023
    World Premiere
    Best Feature Film
Director Biography - Giulio Pereno

Giulio Pereno was born in Venice in 1996. Grown up in the important cultural pole of visual arts and in a family of artisans - his parents were, at the time, owners of one of the excellent craft workshops where the masks associated with the famous carnival are produced - he directed his artistic interest in the field of images.

His artistic work ranges from painting to photography and then concentrates on cinematographic expression. After completing his classical studies, he moves to Berlin in 2015, where he writes the subject and plans the production of his first feature film, a docu-movie focusing on female solo travellers.

In search of female travellers to interview in order to complete the project and a personal experience of travelling alone, in the same year he embarks on a bicycle trip through France and Spain in the direction of Morocco, during which he sleeps in the streets with a tent. This way of travelling and the related artistic theme became a fundamental part of his artistic and life concept.

The production of 'Women who travel alone' than took place in Italy, with base in Turin, where Giulio Pereno meets Tommaso Massimiliano Alfì, in art Maria Virgin, a musician and music producer who will be the author of the soundtrack for this film and the following one. This encounter gives rise to a residential artistic experience destined to last over the years under the name of 'Povera', an artistic collective located at the Magazzini Docks Dora in Turin, currently one of the city's social and cultural hubs.

'Women who travel alone' will be released in 2019, participating in several festivals and winning the Noce d'oro for the best independent film at the BCT festival of Benevento in the same year.

In 2020, after several journeys and periods of work in natural settings, he began to dedicate himself to the production of his next film, 'Sleeping Close', which was completed in 2023 in collaboration with Olivia Paola Longoni. In this film they further develop the theme of the feminine and that of travel, conceived as a means of searching for an unfiltered relationship with nature, the ultimate refuge from the negativity of the urban world and the exploitation of the territory inevitably connected to it.

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Director Statement

BEST FILM (Verona International Film Festival 2023)

The Tarkovski Grant
Producer's Night Official Nominee

World Premiere in Verona International Film Festival (7 Sept 2023)

-Professional English Subtitles (file .srt)
-mp4 or Mov, 1080 hd film (24/14gb)
(Filmfreeway previous is a 7gb low quality)

The movie is characterized by a POETIC and SLOW CINEMA style.