Venice Film Festival, Young Friulian triumphs in International Critics’ Week

On the red carpet of the Venice Film Festival 2022 within the International Critics Week, There is also a little Friuli Venezia Giulia.

Winning the Best Short Film Award in the SIC @ SIC 2022 section (Italian Short Cinema) is “Puite” From Lorenzo Fabro and Bronte Stahl, film directors and producers.

And he, Lorenzo, was born but raised in Bologna Bertioloto carry the name Fruli Venezia Giulia aloft in the context of the most important Italian cinematic event.

Jury evaluation

The shot was warmly welcomed by the International Critics’ Week jury, which prompted the decision to award “Bouis” the Best Short Film award. “For the ability with which a film work maintains the relationship between image and movement and the time constancy of the image, thus entrusting the appearance of the subject A narrative role is sometimes ineffectiveAnd the. A woman immersed in a kind of magical realism that brings us back to the cyclical nature to become intimate and universal.”.

Lorenzo Fabro

After earning a degree in Film Engineering in Turin, Lorenzo graduated in directing at the Bella Tar Film Factory in Sarajevo, then worked as an assistant director and assistant director for several international productions with the likes of Laura Sammani and Mirko Locatelli..

“The short documentary film was born in a Workshop held in Romania, In a remote place in Transylvania – Lorenzo tells us – a place very far from the city and from life in general. There, thanks to teamwork, I met Bronte, co-director of “Puet”, with whom the desire to turn work into a short film was born even after meeting in Romania.

Puiet grew up with thousands of difficulties, like the protagonist in our documentary. The film, which was entirely produced with the protagonist in Romania, has a final 14-minute duration, and then required two years of work, Challenging all the restrictions imposed by the pandemic and forcing us to work remotely from Italy to the US where Bronte lives – he admits – is a no easy task of confining art to the ether, which requires sessions in unimaginable time zones. But we felt – he continues – that we had something special on hand that was worth developing. In the end we were right.”

Even the mere selection at Venice was an ‘award’ for us, enough to repay us for all the effort – he declares – It was victory and then crowning glory.”

“My secret dream? – concludes Fabro – he has already checked, and I am not talking about the gun. I am talking about An opportunity to do what I love and wish for in the future to be able to continue doing while growing professionally day after day. Here, this is my secret dream“.

short film

“Puite” It is the story of a child searching for his own place in the world. Nikosur lives in a small rural town in Transylvania. He is a child who wants to grow up and become a part of the adult world by dealing with rejection by the adults themselves. Therefore, Nikosaur in nature seeks a place where he will recognize himself and find himself, and it is there that he will find his reason for being.