Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri / Italy / 2023 / 101′ / Italian | English subtitles

«When I see Rome I see my mother. It has been like this since she died».
A summer evening many years ago: the city is deserted, the World Cup final is underway. A woman, Teresa, reaches the Tiber and lets herself go with its current. The depths swallow her and her daughter Virginia, in the dark of night, crosses Rome: she wants to find her and save her. Virginia must traverse the depths of the waters, history, myths, misfortunes, and vital glimmers of a timeless Rome. So he can see his mother again emerging from the darkness of the Tiber to fly to Amor, “the planet of the cure” surrounded by water and where the streets, squares, and fountains resemble those of Rome and animals are free to roam.

Editing Beppe Leonetti, Virginia Eleuteri Serperi
Camera Simone Rivoire
Music Martynas Bialobžeskis
Sound design and mix Vito Martinelli
Production Stefilm, Era Film, Rai Cinema
Producers Edoardo Fracchia, Elena Filippini, Stefano Tealdi, Rasa Miškinyè

Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri
She is a director of research art films and documentaries. After graduating from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome in sound technique and graduating in Literature from La Sapienza University, she devoted herself to the art of images and sounds by exploring different languages and media, from the use of super8 film to computer graphics. She made several short films and a medium-length documentary My sister is a painter (2014), where she investigates memory and vision through the painting work of her sister Lisa.
Amor is her first feature film, selected at the 80. Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica La Biennale di Venezia and nominated for IDFA Award 2023 as Best First Feature.

May 31 04:30 pm.
Cinema Intrastevere Hall 1
Meeting with the author

June 1 9:30 pm.
Cinema Intrastevere Hall 3