Suburbia
Written and directed by – Andrea Orsenigo
Back in town for a funeral, Michele meets Sebastiano, his childhood friend. The two have not seen each other for three years and, despite the context, they embrace joyfully. Sebastiano tells his friend about life in the province, about his daughter who has grown up and about his new job. Michele is more reserved, his words contain a poorly concealed disillusionment.
Walking through his town, Michele is forced to process the discrepancy between the place of his memories and reality. Having reached the top of a large abandoned building, the subject of constant proposals for redevelopment, the man explains to his friend his desire to see some memories preserved. Sebastiano, not knowing what to say, offers him a cigarette. The two smoke in silence, looking at their land.
Born on October 10th 2000, Andrea Orsenigo is a screenwriter and director from Brianza. In 2022 he graduated from the Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti di Milano with a specialization in Screenwriting and Creative Writing. In the last two years he has worked as an independent director for several projects, winning calls for tenders such as Premiere Film Lab and Sentiero Film Lab. Renato’sCar, his first short film, had its premiere on June 8, 2025 in an official review of the Milano Film Fest.
O Laúro
Written and directed by – Giovanna Lopalco
Aldara, a 10-year-old girl, spends her summer at her spinster aunts’ house in southern Italy. She finds solace in playing with her friends Amanda and Breixo and in fantasy. One day, they encounter two snakes mating, and Breixo chants a spell to separate them. Later, Aldara discovers the ‘Devil’ card and a legend about a monster called ‘The Lauro’ who torments animals and people at night. She steals the card and finds a sanitary pad, her favourite fetish, in Amanda’s mother’s bathroom.
That night, a strange creature appears, half-human, half-animal: The Lauro, who invites her to follow it through the fields, but she doesn’t go. The next morning, the Lauro appears again, and Aldara climbs onto its back to play with it.
A storm forces thechildren to stay at Amanda’s house, and Aldara uses the opportunity to search for another pad. Amanda catches her, and Aldara flees to the fields embarrassed. The Lauro follows her, trying to entice her into playing again. Off-screen, we hear Breixo repeating the spell.
Aldara’s mother’s arrival marks the end of summer, and she says goodbye to her friends and aunts. Before leaving, she digs a hole and murmurs something inaudible, and she climbs into her mother’s car. Summer is over.
She studied 2D animation at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, in Turin Italy. Since 2009 she works as Background Artist. ‘Season’(2019) is her first animation short film as anauthor, funded by Cineteca Matadero de Madrid and Axudas a Talento Agadic, and co-produced by InsolenceProduction (France). She lives in A Coruña, city where she develops her workas an author, exploring disciplines such as illustration andceramics.
Brazil
Written and directed by – Danilo Stanimirović
In a provincial elementary school in Serbia, a middle aged teacher Ceca prepares a group of little girls for a dance competition.
Ceca posts pictures of girls in revealing and slinky costumes. She aggressively makes them practice the choreography to the point of exhaustion. Nobody in the school approves of her and the only thing she is good at is her dance shows.
The girls protest the song selection and are called out by their class for hanging out with the bully-teacher. They decide not to show up for the competition. Ceca is furious while the audience is waiting for the spectacle to begin. Ceca takes the stage and starts to dance, as the spectators begin to follow along and dance with her.
Danilo is a young filmmaker and chocolate lover from Požarevac, Serbia. His short films were screened at festivals around the world and won numerous awards. Currently, he is on master studies for directing at FDU, while working on 3 new short films and as a mentor at FreeZone Filmmaker school in Belgrade.
Filonzana
Written and directed by – Martina Mele
Far from time in rural Sardinia, a village hidden in the hills prepares to celebrate Carnival, a lively and collective ritual that transforms each individual into something other than themselves.
Ester, a taciturn girl, wanders among masks and rituals, tormented by the mythical figure of the FILONZANA, symbol of the judgments that haunt her. Ester hides a secret: she is attracted to girls, a truth that she is afraid to reveal to her family and to herself.
While the party explodes in songs, dances and disguises, Ester confronts the animalistic and violent side of adults, hidden behind disturbing masks. In the chaos of the carnival she finds a moment of respite and truth: a clandestine meeting with a mysterious figure, also hidden by a sack. She is her girlfriend, her refuge. A kiss between masks seals a love that, at least for that moment, knows no judgment.
Dawn brings silence and clarity. Ester, who grew up in the whirlwind of the party, decides to confess her truth to her family. In a final act of liberation, she runs through the hills, illuminated by the sun, now in color: a young woman who has chosen to weave the threads of her own identity, free and aware.
She is a director and screenwriter, born in 1997. Graduated from the Department of Figurative Arts, Music, Entertainment and Fashion at the University of Bologna, in 2019 she co-founded the association DestinationFilm. She is known for the short films DAS MEER (2023), selected at the 28th Edition of VISIONI ITALIANE and the LINZ INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, and RAPACITÀ (2024), selected at the 30th edition of VISIONI ITALIANE and the 21st edition of CORTO DORICO. She worked as a set decorator in the short film MAJONEZÈ (2024) by GIULIA GRANDIENTTI and as a set designer in the short films SANS DIEU (2023) and KRALIK (2025) by ALESSANDRO ROCCA, produced by DestinationFilm -APS. She works as a filmmaker, set designer and decorator for short films and music videos.
Looking 4 is a special program of the Figari International Short Film Mkt aimed at creating matchmaking situations between Italian and foreign directors, screenwriters, producers, aimed at the creation of fiction and/or animation short films.
The call is open to directors residing in Italy with an original short film script looking for a production company.
The selection of the scripts takes place under the unquestionable judgment of the Artistic Direction of the Festival. The selected directors will be invited to present their works during the Figari International Short Film Mkt to a parterre of selected producers.
The authors cannot avoid this presentation, under penalty of exclusion from the Festival.
The selected scripts will be 4.
The festival will offer each author two free accreditations, discounts on travel and meals and a Pitch Training session.
To submit a short film, each director must send in a single PDF the form downloadable at this link and containing:
• Synopsis
• Screenplay
• CV Screenwriter
• CV Director
• Links to director’s previous works
To the email address market@figarifilmfest.it, indicating in the subject “LOOKING4_PRODUCER – NAME OF THE PROJECT” with attached the payment receipt of € 30 as the registration fee to be paid by bank transfer to
Associazione Diero
IBAN: IT40D0200884982000105951782
Deadline at 11.59 pm on 12.05.2025
Download form
The call is open to Italian production companies with a short film project looking for Italian production companies to co-produce the work with.
Preference will be given to works with already part of the budget covered and films that need companies belonging to certain territories to obtain regional funds.
The selection of the scripts takes place under the unquestionable judgment of the Artistic Direction of the Festival. The selected production companies will be invited to present their works during the Figari International Short Film Fest to a parterre of selected producers.
The selected candidates cannot be exempt from this presentation, under penalty of exclusion from the Festival.
There will be 4 selected projects.
The festival will offer each club two free accreditations, discounts on travel and meals and a Pitch Training session.
To submit a short film, each director must send in a single PDF the form downloadable at this link and containing:
• Screenplay
• Screenwriter CV
• Director CV.
• Production CV
• Budget and financial plan
• Any other material (Letters of intent, dossiers, moodboards…)
To the email address market@figarifilmfest.it, indicating in the subject “LOOKING4_COPRO – NAME OF THE PROJECT” with attached the payment receipt of € 30 as the registration fee to be paid by bank transfer to
Associazione Diero
IBAN: IT40D0200884982000105951782
Deadline at 11.59 pm on 12.05.2025
Download form
The call is open to Italian production companies with a short film project looking for international production companies with which to co-produce the work.
Privilege will be works with part of the budget already covered, to be shot in a foreign country or with a strong international vision and innovation.
The selection of the scripts takes place under the unquestionable judgment of the Artistic Direction of the Festival. The selected production companies will be invited to present their works during the Figari International Short Film Fest to a parterre of selected producers.
The selected candidates cannot be exempt from this presentation, under penalty of exclusion from the Festival.
There will be 4 selected projects.
The festival will offer each club two free accreditations, discounts on travel and meals and a Pitch Training session.
To submit a short film, each company must send in a single PDF the form downloadable at this link and containing:
• Screenplay
• Screenwriter CV
• Director CV.
• Production CV
• Budget and financial plan
• Any other material (Letters of intent, dossiers, moodboards…)
To the email address market@figarifilmfest.it, indicating in the subject “LOOKING4_INTCOPRO – NAME OF THE PROJECT” with attached the payment receipt of € 30 as the registration fee to be paid by bank transfer to
Associazione Diero
IBAN: IT40D0200884982000105951782
Deadline at 11.59 pm on 12.05.2025
Download form
The call is aimed at European production companies or directors with a short film project seeking international distribution.
Works with a strong international vision, innovation and great commercial and distribution capacity will be favoured.
The selection of films takes place under the unquestionable judgment of the Artistic Direction of the Festival. The selected ones will be invited to present their works during the Figari International Short Film Fest to a parterre of distributors, during private screenings.
The selected candidates cannot be exempt from this presentation, under penalty of exclusion from the Festival.
There will be 4 selected projects.
The festival will offer each selected two free accreditations, discounts on travel and meals and a public screening session.
To register a short film you will need to send the link of the film with password to the email address market@figarifilmfest.it, indicating in the subject “LOOKING4_DISTRIBUTION – NAME OF THE PROJECT” with attached the payment receipt of € 10 as the registration fee to be paid by bank transfer to
Associazione Diero
IBAN: IT40D0200884982000105951782
Deadline at 11.59 pm on 12.05.2025
