Four young flight attendants from the low-cost airline PanoramicAir find themselves in a hotel room the night before their flight. Two of them have never flown before, while the other two have. To ease their anxiety, they laugh and joke together, until a role-playing game disrupts the balance of the group, revealing a deep truth.
Year of production 2025 Length 12' CountryItaly Shooting Format 16mm Aspect Ratio 1.66:1 Dialogue Italian
DirectorAndrea Lamedica Production Company Panoramic Studio Producer Gregorio Mattiocco Writers Andrea Lamedica, Alessandro Cedola, Agnese Lama Director of Photography Elisa Fioritto Editor Luca Armocida Color Correction Andrea Sabatelli Sound Designer & Mix Pierpaolo Pantano Sound Leonardo Forte Cast Eco Andriolo, Angelica Elli, Federica Bonocore, Ludovica Rubino
Director's Statement Fiji explores the theme of identity at the fragile, revealing moment when it first emerges. It is not only about gender identity, but about that sudden, almost epiphanic recognition that often marks adolescence and early adulthood,when a glance, a gesture, or even an innocent game can turn into revelation. The protagonists are four young flight attendants, suspended between the promise of travel and the reality of a life defined by roles and performance. The airplane, symbol of freedom and movement, remains off-screen: what matters is their waiting, enclosed within a hotel room. In this neutral, anonymous space, the unexpected bursts in through a role-playing game, capable of disrupting balances and bringing a deeper truth to the surface. The mise-en-scène mirrors this tension. At first, the camera observes from a distance, static and silent, as if reflecting the gap between the girls and themselves. But as the game takes shape and fiction turns into revelation, the gaze becomes handheld, intimate, clinging to their faces. The camera breathes with the characters, immersing the viewer in the very moment when identity is unveiled. Fiji is therefore a story about the instant when the ordinary breaks open and lets the unknown emerge, about how self-discovery never happens in isolation, but always through collision and encounter with others. A film that transforms an ordinary night into a threshold, a passage toward a new way of seeing and recognizing oneself. Like an airplane on the runway, identity remains motionless until something forces it to take off: the takeoff, unexpected yet inevitable, is the moment when one finally discovers oneself in flight.
