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Short Film Competition · 45th Edition

A Boring Poetic Life

Una Noiosa Poetica Vita

Director

Moatasem Taha

Country

Italy, Palestine

Language

Italian

Synopsis

In southern Italy, a simple-minded young man lives with his aging father, who was a poet. Now, the father struggles with memory loss, and the poems that once filled his heart have slipped away. Though the son never knew these poems, he embarks on a heartfelt journey, using his own simple yet sincere methods, to help his father remember the verses that once filled his life.

Cast

Claudio Moretti, Luigi Correale, Giuseppe Di Vietri

Screenplay

Moatasem Taha

Producers

Production: Claudio Moretti, Renata Elizondo Perez

About the Director

Taha is a Palestinian filmmaker and a graduate of Cinema and Photography from Wizo College in Haifa, He is a student for a master's degree in film directing at FAMU Academy in Prague. Taha became an integral part of the Palestinian young filmmaking movement, which is dedicated to exploring and preserving Palestinian identity through cinema.