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LI PARADISI
​​​by Manuel Marini

12min | Italy | 2020

Lucia owns a family olive grove together with her brother Donato, but her trees have stopped producing as they once did because of a parasite that caused most of the trees to dry out. In a difficult process of acceptance, Lucia embarks on a journey between present and past where her identity as a human being is at stake.

International Title The Heavens
Year of production 2020
Length 12min
Country Italy
Shooting Format 16mm
Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
Dialogue Italian
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Director Manuel Marini
Production Apulia Film Commission   
Executive Production Sinossi Film 
Producer Pietro Manigrasso​, Manuel Marini, Edoardo Carlo Bolli, Paolo Tepatti, Ivan Brienza, Augusto Pelliccia
Writer ​Manuel Marini, Paolo Tepatti
Art Director Paolo Tepatti
Cinematographer Edoardo Carlo Bolli
Editor Manuel Marini
Sound Mixage Daniele Mariani
Sound Recorder Ivano Staffieri 
Make Up Gaia Santoro
Music Marco De Pascale
Cast Celeste Casciaro, Salvatore Della Villa, Anna  Boccadamo, Arcangela Maria Winspeare

This projects is cofounded by the European Regional Development Fund under Interreg V-A Greece-Italy Programme 2014/2020​

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Festival selections
Warsaw International Film Festival 2020, Poland - World Premiere
Festival del Cinema Europeo 2020, Italy
MedFilm Festival 2020, Italy
Baku International Short Film Festival 2020, Azerbaijan - Best Documentary Film Director​ Award
Longue vue sur le court 2020, Canada
Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People 2020, Greece
Hainan Island International Film Festival 2020, China
Messolonghi By Locals 2020, Greece
ABCinema 2020, Greece
Pharos Best Inspiration Film Festival 2021, Greece
Dolomiti Film Festival 2021, Italy
SA.FI.TER - Salento Finibus Terrae 2021, Italy
Festival Internacional de Cinema de Menorca 2021, Spain
Umbria Film Festival 2021, Italy
Social World Film Festival 2021, Italy
Reggio Calabria FilmFest 2021, Italy
Cisterna Film Festival 2021, Italy
Aegean Film Festival 2021, Greece
Beach Film Festival 2021, Republic of Macedonia
Voci dei Boschi Film Festival 2021, Italy - Best Screenplay Award
Leiden Shorts 2021, Netherlands
Monterrey International Film Festival 2021, Mexico
Kino Otok – Isola Cinema International Film Festival 2021, Slovenia
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Castrovillari Film Festival 2021, Italy
Villammare Film Festival 2021, Italy
Porto Cesareo Film Festival 2021, Italy
DC Shorts International Film Festival 2021, USA
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Director's Statement
Li Paradisi explores the dramatic “Xylella” issue, a bacterium that has affected millions of “evergreen” trees in the Salento area, causing massive explants of trees. The short film tells a story that wants express itself through images, presenting both realistically and symbolically the intertwined existences of human beings and nature, an immersion into a world that feed the emotions of the characters, using the ambient to mirror the conflicts of the souls. There is a more complex truth to what actors are actually seeing through their eyes, as there is a more complex reality to what simply appears on the images that lights up the screen.
​“I now live in things my eyes look at. I become an olive tree, wheel of a slow cart…”
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