Country: Italy
Year: 2025
Duration: 98'
Eva, a mysterious woman who lives in the forest, sets a field of sunflowers on fire. She tells the police commissioner who arrests her that she did it because the children are in danger and must be protected. Eva believes she has a mission and she talks like a preacher, a sort of Joan of Arc. She sees strange blue lights in the sky. Her case is associated with the mysterious disappearance of children that have been occurring in the area, even if the youngsters seem to gladly follow her around. In the meantime, in China, a woman is exasperated because her daughter is sick…
Biography
film director
Emanuela Rossi
(Ascoli Piceno, Italy, 1968), from the Marche, studied film history at the DAMS in Bologna and at Paris VIII. She then worked as a journalist for women’s magazines (“Grazia,” “Marie Claire,” “Glamour,” “Casa Vogue,” “D-Donna”) and in 2007 wrote, directed, and produced her first short, Il bambino di Carla, which was nominated at the Nastri d’Argento and the David di Donatello awards. Between 2008 and 2013, she studied actor direction with Francesca De Sapio (Metodo Actor’s Studio) and between 2015 and 2017 she was one of the directors of the series Non uccidere. In 2019, at Alice nella Città, she presented her first feature film Buio (Darkness), Premio Fioretta for Italian cinema, SIAE Silver Ribbon for Best Screenplay at the Nastri d’Argento, and Best First Film by the “Rivista del cinematografo.” Selected for international festivals (Australia, Estonia, South Korea, Romania, France, Germany, Poland, England, Israel, United States…), the movie also received awards in Nantes and Sydney.
FILMOGRAFIA
Il bambino di Carla (cm, 2007), Il citofono (cm, 2008), Non uccidere (serie tv, 2015-17), Buio (2019), Eva (2025).
Declaration
film director
“My movie is about faith, about the hope that we can change things. Even the past. It is a movie about the disasters in a world in deep distress, that puts human beings in situations that are so at the limit and painful that it can push them over the edge. A movie that, like my previous one, Buio, combines various genres, from family drama to thriller to sci-fi. Because, as we see more and more at the cinema, it is impossible to recount our time and its complexity without borrowing fragments of style and effective contents from various genres to recount the things we feel we must. Lastly, it is a movie about a rebellion. Crazy, absurd, in no way justifiable. But, since it is human, it is dictated by a devasting, perhaps comprehensible pain. I do not justify Eva and I do not forgive her. I’m only trying to understand her.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, STORY: Emanuela Rossi. SCREENPLAY: Emanuela Rossi, Stella Di Tocco. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Luca Bigazzi. EDITING: Davide Miele. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Barbara Tomada. COSTUME DESIGN: Carola Fenocchio. MUSIC: Pasquale Catalano. SOUND: Paolo Amici. CAST: Carol Duarte, Edoardo Pesce, Tommaso Zoppi, Antonio Gerardi, Giordano De Plano, Roberta Mattei. PRODUCTION: Claudio Corbucci for Courier Film. COPRODUCTION: Paolo Tarpini for Tarpini Productions.
CONTACT: Claudio Corbucci claudio.corbucci@gmail.com
