30. Film Festival della Lessinia
Bosco Chiesanuova (Italia)
23 August - 1 September 2024

A boy searches for his cat along a river but cannot find it. On the verge of death, the animal moved away from everything to find the necessary intimacy. The child arrives at the gates of time, a place where the dead disappear and the living let them go. The child is afraid, he enters a forest of symbols and memories. Meanwhile he grows up. His childhood illusions dissolve and blend with the landscape. With the evocative force of the drawn images alone, Guidi and Cerri build a Bildungsroman that is clearly hallucinated, yet also domestic, intimate, and surprisingly everyday. The first pain of a child is the spark that ignites the fire of imagination and memory, the viaticum towards an adult world that has its most authentic signs in loss. With acceptance of the cycles of nature comes the only true knowledge.

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  Magda Guidi

  Magda Guidi was born in Pesaro in 1979. Trained at the Scuola del Libro in Urbino, she then specialised in animated cinema. She is an illustrator and animator. With Mara Cerri she made Sogni al campo, presented at the Venice Film Festival, and previously Via Curiel 8 (2011).

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  Mara Cerri

  Mara Cerri was born in Pesaro in 1978. She graduated from the Scuola del Libro in Urbino and subsequently attended the two-year postgraduate course in animation cinema. In 2003 she began working as an illustrator of children's books, collaborating with the principal Italian and foreign publishing houses in the sector.