short film (14′)

by Gian Luca Catalfamo & Tatiana Ivensen.

written by Gian Luca Catalfamo, Tatiana Ivensen and Angelo Farina

STATUS: post-production

Financed by Frocinema

LOGLINE: A middle-aged man arrives at a remote naturist beach, looking for fleeting encounters. Instead, he stumbles upon a group of migrants who have just landed. As the coast guard closes in, his impulsive decision to intervene sparks a spiral of chaos and absurdity.

NARRATIVE CONCEPT: The weirdest hero but a hero nevertheless. An absurdist anti-authoritarian satire, a story of defiance and deception. What the present fears is what once changed the course of time.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT: As personal freedom and social control increasingly blur, the film enters the realm of the grotesque and the surreal. Set on a winter beach and shaped like a satirical western, a wide, sunlit landscape becomes the stage for a clash between private desire and institutional authority. A silent, intimate ritual unfolds through glances and gestures. The body language of cruising operates as a fragile code beyond regulation, while inevitably producing misunderstanding and cultural collision.Viewed through the eyes of weary, procedural authority, migration is reduced to a nuisance to be contained. The film turns this logic on its head, reclaiming wandering as a force that has always shaped history. What power mistakes for a problem becomes, by accident, an act of survival and a very inconvenient form of salvation.

STYLE: The visual style defines the film’s atmosphere as much as its meaning. The image shifts from harsh, blinding sunlight to the softer tones of sunset, with a deliberately desaturated color palette that flattens contrasts and enhances a sense of exposure and suspension. These tones evoke distant western and science-fiction atmospheres, placing the story in a landscape that feels both archaic and slightly alien. The warmth and grain of film footage coexist with cold, over-sharpened digital images produced by surveillance devices, creating visual friction between organic presence and mechanical observation. Variations in rhythm and subtle distortions of time reinforce a subjective feeling of disorientation and entrapment, allowing the image to reflect the tension between desire, control, and misunderstanding.