In the past
DOUBLE RAINBOW
Short Film, 19:50 minutes
Language: English.
Winner of 26 Awards
Serena Alston Guerini's married life had been uneventful. Living on her family's idyllic Tuscan wine estate, she devoted herself to her only child and to the piano, allowing her husband Massimo to occupy the limelight. The platonic love she received from an old school friend, Claudio, consoled her as Massimo grew more and more distant, focused entirely on the business and local politics. As Serena's ambition to become a professional pianist develops, her life explodes. Massimo becomes fiercely resentful and violent. When Claudio reveals his duplicity, Serena is truly alone, with no one left to trust. She is at a crossroads, suddenly aware that her future lies in her own hands. Her life is in pieces. Should she preserve all that matters to her, or start living the life she wants? She has to make a difficult choice. Or, is there perhaps a third option?
ONE LAST TIME
(Un'Ultima Volta)
Short Film, 19:33 minutes
Language: Italian with English subtitles.
Winner of 19 awards
Simone, a young drug-addict from Turin (Italy) has only one goal: cut back from cocaine, and be as free as the seagulls he watches gliding over the Po river. He wants to be clean, stay clean and rekindle his relationship with his mother. He wants to be the nice guy he once was before he got entangled in the drug world. Simone is convinced that his strong will power, together with his passion for playing the sax will assist him in the arduous journey away from addiction. He cuts his ties with Daniele, his drug pal and room mate and finds a job as a saxophonist in a Jazz Club in town. He seems to be heading straight. But he's still indebted with the drug lords who ruthlessly threaten him. He is scared and time is running out. In order to glean the amount he owes he sells his father’s watch, and resorts to mugging women at night. ‘Just one last time’ – he thinks while attacking his last victim. But he has not predicted a circumstance as remote and dramatic as the one he meets on that night in the dark outskirts of town. Maybe that was really his last time.
