38° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
FUORI CONCORSO/TRACCE DI TEATRO

QUASI NATALE

ALMOST CHRISTMAS
by Francesco Lagi
Country: Italy
Year: 2020
Duration: 87'


Three brothers gather in their childhood home. Their mother has to tell them something. Christmas is just around the corner. There is also a girl. She looks so familiar. There is a wait and a forced vicinity. A new fish for the aquarium and an engagement ring. Old school notebooks and a remote control device that can't be found. A telephone that rings and an old story about Native American shamans. There are certain spirits, in that house, which have a hard time going away.

Biography

film director

Francesco Lagi

(Florence, Italy, 1977), after directing one of the episodes of the collective film 4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo (2006), debuted in feature films with Missione di pace (2011), selected for the International Film Critics' Week in Venice. The author and director of the web series Connessioni: 10 incontri sentimentali (Silver Ribbon in 2016), he has also directed video clips (including clips for Mannarino, Tiromancino, and Bugo) and backstage footage (Mia madre by Nanni Moretti, 2015). In 2019, he made the documentary Zigulì. He wrote and directed the two seasons of the series Summertime, produced by Netflix and Cattleya. For theatre, with the company Teatrodilina he has written and staged: Zigulì (2013), Banane (2014), Le vacanze dei signori Lagonìa (2015), Gli uccelli migratori (2015), Il bambino dalle orecchie grandi (2017), Quasi Natale (2018), and Brina (2019).

FILMOGRAFIA

In battere (cm, 2001), Il naso (cm, 2003), 4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo (ep., 2006), Missione di pace (2011), Connessioni: 10 Incontri sentimentali (serie tv, 2015), Zigulì (doc, 2019), Summertime (serie tv, 2020), Quasi Natale (2020).

Cast

& Credits

DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Francesco Lagi. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Edoardo Bolli. FILM EDITING: Marco Signoretti. SET DESIGN: Cinzia Iademarco. COSTUME DESIGNE: Andrea Cavalletto. MUSIC: Riccardo Amorese. SOUND: Angelo Bonanni, Giuseppe D’Amato. CAST: Anna Bellato, Francesco Colella, Silvia D’Amico, Leonardo Maddalena. PRODUCER: da Alfredo Covelli. PRODUCTION: Meproducodasolo, Teatrodilina.

CONTACTS: Meproducodasolo, Alfredo Covelli covelli79@yahoo.it
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