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SACRO MODERNO
​​​by Lorenzo Pallotta

70min | Italy | 2021
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Simone is a young man that, even if with hesitations and new awareness, brings forward traditions and memories of a small mountain community that is slowly fading away, while Filippo is trying to distance himself from it, spiritually and mentally.
 
International Title The Children of the Sleeping Giant
​Year of production 2021
Length 70min
Country Italy
Shooting Format Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.66:1​
Dialogue Italian

Director Lorenzo Pallotta
Production Limbo Film, Il Varco, Oudeis Pictures, Peperonitto Media
Producers Lorenzo Pallotta, Andrea Gatopoulos, Marco Crispano, Stefano Schiavone
Executive Producers Andrea Rosasco, Stefano Chiavarini
Writer Lorenzo Pallotta
Cinematographer Andrea Benjamin Manenti
Editor Massimo Da Re
Sound Andrea Oppo, Luciano Marzocchella, Alessandra Salvatori
Sound Mixing Tommaso Barbaro
Music Freddie Murphy, Chiara Lee
Cast Filippo Lanci, Simone Caruso, Mattia Caruso
 
Festival selections
Alice nella Città 2021, Italy - World Premiere
Filmmaker Festival 2021, Italy
Laceno d'oro International Film Festival 2021, Italy
Cinemambiente 2022, Italy
Bardolino Film Festival 2022, Italy
Taipei Film Festival 2022, Taiwan
Social World Film Festival 2022, Italy
Marienbad Film Festival 2022, Czech Republic
Debut22 – Filmfestival Klosters 2022, Switzerland
Religion Today Film Festival 2022, Italy
EthnoKino Film Festival 2022, Switzerland
Mediterranean Film Festival 2022, Bosnia and Herzegovina 
Caminhos Film Festival 2022, Portugal
Mente Locale - Visioni sul territorio 2022, Italy
Filmfest Bremen 2023, Germany
​​Marateale 2023, Italy
​Festa del Cinema Pirata 2023, Italy
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Director's Statement
In a historic period where little towns are disappearing along with their ancient traditions, "The Children of the Sleeping Giant" comes to life.
A docu-film that tells the story and the destiny of a mountain community that tries to survive by all means. The goal of this film is to show all the main characters’ different points of view. In disparate ways they try to distance themselves from a hierarchical and powerful system that consolidated in this kind of towns with the passing of years. The film, at the beginning, focuses on the concept of responsibility that Simone has towards his community, but then slowly shifts his focus on the theme of violence and how it impacts the characters’ lives. A silent violence that forces Simone to act without even really thinking. The film and the characters’ souls move around these two anguishing themes. A community that is not often shown in the film, but that silently shapes and watches over Simone’s destiny and the ones that interact with him. The film wants to make the viewers feel a sense of oppression and loneliness, through the bewilderment of the characters’ souls, characters that don’t have a real landmark. With the help of the cinematic medium, we decided to tell a multitude of emotions, switching from moving to fixed shots, to get close to the characters’ hidden feelings but, at the same time, to give them freedom to act with the utmost respect.
The ultimate goal was to try to create an intentionally magical universe, a middle ground between a dark fairy tale and a coming-of-age film, where viewers can get lost into the dilated pace of an apparent silence, trying to find inside themselves the true meaning of the film. A dark and tragic truth that will probably always exist in such a little and hidden world, but universally understandable.
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