Country: Italy
Year: 2026
Duration: 19'
On a Venetian street, the Boy and the Ghost embrace themselves. Suddenly, the latter rises and takes flight. From then on, the two search for each other, through chats, digital archives and lagoon landscapes, in a flow that moves between this world and the other.
Biography
film director
Giacomo Raffaelli
(Italy) graduated in Visual Arts and Expanded Cinema from Iuav University of Venice. He has made several short films that have screened at national and international festivals. His most recent works include INFESTANTE INFESTANTE (2025), La famosa rivolta dei filmati di repertorio (2024), which screened at the UnArchive Festival in Rome, and In fondo al mare (2023), selected for BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival. His short film Grandissima (2022) won the Rai Cinema Channel Award. In 2020, he co-directed Ernesto with Alice De Luca, a self-produced medium-length film selected for the Rome Independent Film Festival and distributed in the UK and the United States.
FILMOGRAFIA
Ernesto (coregia Alice De Luca, mm, 2020), Grandissima (cm, 2021), In fondo al mare (cm, doc, 2023), La famosa rivolta dei filmati di repertorio (cm, 2024), INFESTANTE INFESTANTE (cm, doc, 2025), cosa_può_un_fantasma_ (2026).
Declaration
film director
“Cosa_può_un_fantasma is a sensory and emotional journey through the ongoing search for identity and desire. It unfolds as a fragmented path that rejects linearity, pushing against normative ideas of both narrative and the body. The short film opens a reflection on departure, on staying and leaving, shifting it onto an ontological level: what remains of a body when it is no longer present? What remains of a relationship? This is a film about the possibility of meeting again.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Giacomo Raffaelli. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Giacomo Colombo, Georgian Unit Falcke Penso. EDITING: Alessia Antognelli. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Sebastiano Zafonte. MUSIC, SOUND: Lorenzo Capaccioni, Matilde Ceccarelli. CAST: Leonardo Venturi, Paolo Mastagni, Eleanor Drewry. PRODUCTION: Andrés Testa Herranz, Giacomo Raffaelli for Megattera Film. COPRODUCTION: Archivio RI-PRESE. CONTACT: Cosimo Santoro, The Open Reel cs@theopenreel.com