RENÉ GOES TO WAR
European Short Film – Prix Vimeo 2024 – Candidates (26 films)
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18m
RENÉ VA ALLA GUERRA
Italy
Documentary/experimental
Little René lives in a house in the woods of Slovenia. He spends his summer holidays playing alone, fantasising about defending the national borders from an enemy attack. The child designs and builds wooden toy weapons and then immerses himself in nature, hiding in abandoned bunkers from the Second World War and staging imaginative battles.
Written & directed by: Luca Ferri, Morgan Menegazzo, Mariachiara Pernisa
Produced by: Andrea Zanoli
Cinematography: Morgan Menegazzo
Editing: Mariachiara Pernisa
Original Score: Luca Severino
Sound: Mariachiara Pernisa
Cast: Rene Mlinar, Anka Mlinar, Andrej Mlinarf
Statement of the directors:
RENÉ GOES TO WAR is a meditation on imagination and the coming of age of a child who, starting from what remains of the battlefields of the Second World War and contemporary wars seen through the media, as he goes out exploring and tests his own manual skills, internalises and reworks a playful interpretation of a tragedy perpetrated by the grown-ups.
Production/World Sales:
Lab 80 film
www.lab80.it
Selected at Venice International Film Festival
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