(S)WORDS (FRASE D’ARME)
Director: Federico Di Corato
Producer(s): Okta Film / Paolo Benzi (Italy)
Co-Producer(s): Balade Sauvage Productions (France) / Disko Film (Italy)
Logline: Vivaldi, barely into her teens, is already a former promising fencer. Suddenly incapable of winning, she is made by her mother to watch video footage of herself: her fencing competitions are taped over home movies of the last family holiday before her parents split up, when she was still a little girl. Due to a technical glitch in the device, the past resurfaces in the form of enigmatic fragments. A scrap of footage she herself shot as a child will reveal a secret that had been kept from her until now, forcing her to confront her passage to adulthood head on.
Participation Year: ESP 2016 - Projects in Development
World premiere: Locarno Film Festival - Pardi di Domani, 2018

