Country: Italy
Year: 2026
Duration: 18
Diana is a young Moldovan woman who dreams of leaving her reality behind and starting over from scratch in Paris. When her uncle offers to accompany her and help her move, she finally sees a concrete chance to change her life. But the promise of a better future turns into a nightmare: Diana realizes she has fallen into the trap of human trafficking.
Biography
film director
Diletta Di Nicolantonio
Diletta Di Nicolantonio is an Italian-Croatian director and screenwriter. After working as an assistant director on Italian and international film productions, she developed an authorial approach focused on stories with strong social impact, with particular attention to the female universe, and different forms of violence and marginalization. Her short films have been presented at national and international festivals. Her short film Ciao, Varsavia (2025) was screened at the Rome Film Festival in the “Alice nella città” section and was nominated for a David di Donatello Award.
FILMOGRAFIA
Lukiškės (cm, 2024), Ciao, Varsavia (cm, 2025), La Paris (cm, 2026).
Declaration
film director
“The film stems from an encounter with a social reality observed in Moldova. As the director herself recounts, contact with the territory led her to recognize the urgency of telling a story linked to the trafficking of young women, choosing cinema as a tool for awareness and denunciation. Diana’s story develops around a promise: the possibility of reaching Paris and building a new existence. It is precisely in the gap between what is imagined and what turns out to be real that the narrative tension builds. The journey, initially associated with freedom, becomes the site of a painful discovery.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Diletta Di Nicolantonio. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Matteo Cocco. EDITING: Marta Michno. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Lena Porumbescu. MUSIC: Andrea Guerra. SOUND: Luca Anzellotti. CAST: Maxim Beseti, Francesca Garbalau. PRODUCTION: Diletta Di Nicolantonio, Sara Serraiocco, Filippo Montalto, Francesco Montalto. COPRODUCTION: Timber Production, Andromeda Film. CONTACT: Sayonara Film.
