A short film is a film.
It is not a stepping stone toward a feature.
It’s a cinematic experience that goes beyond the festival circuit.
DISTRIBUTION
Valentina
Italy, 2026 | 10'53" | Drama
Directed by........Mirko Rigon
Production.........Sentiero Film ETS, Bamboo Films
Distribution.......PunxFilm
In the 1980s, Valentina steps in a phone booth to call the home she walked away from years ago. It's her mother's birthday night and she just wants to wish her happy birthday, but her father answers instead, the same man who has never accepted her as a transgender woman. Valentina finds herself facing a conversation with him, who wants to know where she is, what she does for a living and whether her life is better away from home. Reluctant, Valentina answers that's her life, even if it's imperfect. The conversation goes on and confirms his inability to understand her, but also reveals a desire to reconnect, leaving a small opening for their relationship to heal.
Dieci
Italy, 2026 | 19'59" | Psychological Horror
Directed by........Tobia De Angelis
Production.........Perros Hermanos
Distribution.......PunxFilm
Mattia has shut himself in his parents’ country house to finish a scale model of a fountain inhabited by ten miniature figures. Outside the window, a faceless figure resembling one of them watches him. Just as he believes he is done, an eleventh figure appears in the model, and the room around him begins to change its dimensions. Then someone knocks. It is his father, who has uncovered the lies his son used to cut himself off from the world for two years, and wants to take him away. Left alone, Mattia barricades himself inside. That night the model comes to life and turns against its maker.
French Lesson
Poland, Italy, 2026 | 12'00" | Drama
Directed by........Jerzy Czachowski
Production.........Granator Film, with Punx Production
Distribution.......PunxFilm
Alina is in Kyiv, taking a French lesson online. Outside the sirens are sounding, and she keeps conjugating. On the other side of the screen, in Paris, her teacher checks the time and would rather end the call and go to dinner. As the lesson unfolds, their conversation becomes more than an exercise in vocabulary: for her it is a fragile refuge and a way to stay connected to another person, for him an encounter that quietly unsettles the comfort of his everyday life. A Poland-Italy co-production, with artistic supervision by Krzysztof Zanussi.
An der Leine
Germany, Switzerland, 2025 | 14'59" | Drama
Directed by........Pepe Harder
Production.........Hardhaus
Distribution.......PunxFilm
A daughter comes back to her mother's house with a suitcase and asks to stay for a while. Beppo, the old family dog, is still there. From the first days something slips. She asks her mother to blow on her food to cool it, lets herself be fed, curls up on the floor. When Beppo dies and they bury him in the garden, the empty place is taken. She sleeps in the dog's basket. Her mother resists at first, then stops resisting.
Conditioned Air
Germany, 2026 | 18'05" | Drama
Directed by........Laura Mahlberg
Production.........Third Picture GbR
Distribution.......PunxFilm
Isolated in an impersonal apartment, Fabian Hundmann attempts to fill the emotional void left by a breakup with mountains of consumer goods. But when the air conditioning fails and the resolute concierge Emma gains entry into his domain, an unexpected battle ignites, against chaos, self-imposed boundaries, and a past that refuses to let him go.
Buon Compleanno
Italy, 2026 | 19'59" | Chiaroscuro Comedy
Directed by........Francesco Quadri
Production.........Alessandro Antonazzo for Dianto Film
Distribution.......PunxFilm
It's Giova's birthday, a young man confined to a wheelchair. Lele, a very close friend of his, goes to pick him up from the care home where he lives to take him out to celebrate. Through the anonymous streets of sleepy towns, the two first reach the stand of a food truck they know very well. Then comes the moment for Giova's gift: a bit of fun with Lalla, a longtime sex worker well known to the boys. Unfortunately, the tension and Giova's precarious health don't allow him to enjoy the "gift." Lele, saddened by his friend's struggles, starts to take him home; but on top of that, his car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. And yet, when both of them seem to have lost all hope, or maybe precisely because of that, a spark of friendship and empathy reignites.
Sahbi
Italy, 2026 | 10' | Animation
Directed by........Ivana Esposito
Production.........Gelsomina Prositto, Vincenzo Lamagna — NaNo Film Production
Distribution.......PunxFilm
On the Mergellina seafront in Naples, in a warm summer sunset, a child spends the afternoon diving, playing games, and laughing with his friend Yakoub, a Tunisian boy. Not far away, an elderly man naps on the shore, until their voices and splashes awaken him, initially annoying him. When the mother calls Yakoub back and the two are forced to separate, a final embrace and a necklace given as a sign of affection transform that moment into an indelible memory. The old man's gaze then fills with emotion, revealing the connection between past and present: that man is actually the child who has now grown old, reliving the last afternoon spent with his childhood friend. Sahbi is a delicate and universal tale about memory, childhood, and the bonds that continue to live beyond time and distance, under the flight of swallows.
Chicco e Spillo
Italy, 2026 | 19'30" | Drama, Coming of Age
Directed by........Francesco Branca
Production.........Giampietro Preziosa, Marco Simon Puccioni — Inthelfilm
Distribution.......PunxFilm
August. The air is thick and still. Chicco and Spillo, fraternal twins now eighteen, are forced to leave the institutional care home where they grew up. With an uncertain future and driven by the pride of their youth, they flee toward the sea, determined to defy a pre-written destiny and feel like boys for just one more day. But the journey turns into a fragile rite of passage between play and reality, dream and illusion. While Chicco clings to life with angry resolve, Spillo rejects his illness, slipping into an increasingly blurred world. As the heat intensifies, his body gives out. A severe hypoglycemic crisis drags Spillo into a vortex of delirium, where even Chicco's presence begins to feel like a mere illusion.
Quello Che Ci Unisce
Italy, 2026 | 19' | Family drama
Directed by.........Strato Marino
Produzione..........Strato Marino, Abbo Production e Tetra Vision
Distribution.......PunxFilm
The story of a brother and a sister united by a life they never chose. Two siblings grow up in a dysfunctional family, marked from childhood by screaming and violence. As they enter adolescence, the shadows of their parents continue to haunt them, shaping the way they love and relate to others: one seeks refuge in art, while the other slowly becomes consumed by the weight of it all. Their deep yet fragile bond is destined to break under the burden of the past.
Redshift
Italia, 2026 | 19'56" | Dramedy
Director............Fabrizio Giovanardi
Production..........Scuola Volontè | Kimera Film
Distribution.......PunxFilm
A un anno dalla morte della madre, Nico e Flavio si rivedono per la prima volta nel cimitero dove ella è sepolta. Costretti da una circostanza burocratica ad essere lì insieme, metteranno a nudo per la prima volta i loro problemi mentre sono impegnati nella ricerca della madre
FAT
Director............Francesco Santoro
Production..........Masso Film
Reflux Media
Vacuna Pictures
Distribution.......PunxFilm
A father obsessed with his own physique decides to force his overweight son to slim down. As the tension between them grows, old wounds resurface, pushing their relationship toward a point of no return.
Joy Jelly
Italy, 2025 | 20'| Drama
Director............Danilo Merafina
Production..........Basic Title
Distribution.......PunxFilm
Rebecca, 25, obsessed with candy, Hello Kitty and Hannah Montana, goes searching for her parents’ house. Fifteen years after last seeing them, she tries to move back in with them, blurring the line between nostalgia and obsession.
Let the Light In
Italy, 2025 | 6'16"| Experimental Drama
Director............Leonardo Severino
Production..........Leonardo Severino
Jerzy Czachowski for GRANATOR FILM
Distribution.......PunxFilm
During a family outing on the shores of Lake Albano, a ten-year-old boy notices a light shining from beneath the water. He follows this fragile and elusive glow, guided by a mysterious call that unsettles reality and opens a new space. With no dialogue but a heightened and distorted soundscape, Let the Light In portrays the suspension between childhood and adolescence, between the real and the imagined, between life and dream.
FLOWERS WEAR NO SHOES
Italy, 2025|11'50"| Experimental Drama
Director........Matteo Vicentini Orgnani
Production......Matteo Vicentini Orgnani
Distribution...PunxFilm
In a world suspended between reality and imagination, a child lives alongside an adult who cannot truly see him. Daily gestures unfold in silence, and what for one is routine, for the other becomes absence. In this space of emotional void, the child begins to seek a connection, a sign, a response. But when everything around him remains still and distant, he makes an extreme decision in its simplicity: a silent and radical act, devoid of anger but full of desire. A choice as definitive as it is innocent, one that only the pure and free gaze of a child could conceive.
Lighèia
Italy, 2025|17'52"| Thriller
Director............Nicolò Ferrara
Production..........Nicolò Ferrara
Distribution.......PunxFilm
Peppe, a shy and solitary fisherman, finds a treasure in the sea: a mermaid, whom he hides from everyone in an abandoned seaside bathhouse. He is convinced that his destiny has finally changed and that, just like in fairy tales, he will never be alone again.
The Scam
Italy, 2025|09'10"|Comedy
Director............Matteo Stipa|Michele Marchionne
Production..........Inthelfilm
Distribution.......PunxFilm
On a scorching summer day, 80-year-old Mirella gets a call from her grandson, Michele. He says he’s in trouble and needs money. Panicked, she tries to figure out how to help him. But it turns out that, on the other end of the line, it’s actually Frappa and Tommy, two clumsy, low-level scammers doing everything they can to trick the poor old lady.
WALK THE LINE
Italy, 2025|14'52"| Dramedy
Director...........Salvatore Martusciello
Production.........PunxFilm
Distribution......PunxFilm
Three stories intertwine during a birthday party: Cristina, the birthday girl, hides a homosexual relationship; Martinelli is torn between moving to France and pursuing a girl he has fallen in love with; Lorenzo must confront Zuccherino, the drug dealer to whom he owes a heavy debt.
Barby's Dreamhouse
Italy, 2025|11'39"|Drama
Director............Gaia Bencivenga
Production..........Gaia Bencivenga
Distribution.......PunxFilm
Maya is spending the summer at her grandparents’ countryside home. Wanting the glittering Barbie Dreamhouse seen on TV, she receives a knock-off called The House of Barby (La casa di Barbara). One day, while playing with it during naptime, her older cousin exploits the moment to blackmail her, leading her behind the house and asking her to cover her eyes…
Hold On
Italy, 2025 | 4'04" | Comedy
Director............David Barbieri
Production..........David Barbieri
Distribution.......PunxFilm
With a surreal and ironic tone, the film portrays the absurd odyssey of Eugenio, an office worker whose trivial Wi-Fi issue spirals into a Kafkaesque battle with an inhuman support system. A bitter comedy reflecting the shared frustrations of modern life.
Going Swiss
Director............Domenico Pizzulo
Production..........Aps Humareels
Distribution.......PunxFilm
Domenico, a disillusioned young undertaker, plans to emigrate to “The Switzerland” to escape the monotony of small-town life. He and his friends once created TGIRI, a satirical news show that brought creativity to the village. When We Boogie, the local madman turned DJ, urges him to stay, something in Domenico shifts. A tragic event forces him to reconsider everything. A light yet melancholic story about the illusion of escape and the value of what we leave behind.
Good Behavior
IItaly, 2024|14'13"|Thriller/Comedy
Director............Francesco Gheghi
Production.........PunxFilm | ImageHunters
Distribution.......PunxFilm
Alma comes home and reveals shocking news to her parents: she has killed her boyfriend. Lucio and Annamaria, caught off guard, are faced with a choice—report their daughter or protect her. The tension and sarcasm build up until the boyfriend returns… alive.
THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF PAOLO RIVA
Italia, 2024|19'05"| Dramedy
Director............Andrea Rampini
Production..........Andrea Rampini
Distribution.......PunxFilm
Paolo Riva is a compulsive liar. Once a famous pop singer for his song “Spumante e Cioccolatini”, which made it to Sanremo 1984, he now performs at small-town fairs, convinced the world still loves him. His manager and only friend, Tino, maintains the illusion. As Paolo shares ever more absurd stories—from Al Bano and Romina’s breakup to the fall of the Berlin Wall—the line between truth and fantasy dissolves.
Ramses
Italia, 2024|15'00"|Action drama
Director............Francesco Dafano
Production..........Artithesi | Al-One
Distribution.......PunxFilm
A man with a dark past returns home to reconnect with his young daughter after years apart. On the day of their tentative reunion, two intruders violently disrupt their lives. Ramses must act to protect what he holds most dear—his daughter—while concealing the lethal man he once was. A gripping tale of internal conflict and hope.
The Fight
Italy, 2024|19'31"|Drama
Director............Andrea Ricciotti
Production...............PunxFilm
Distribution.......PunxFilm
Andrea, a boxer, suddenly reappears in the locker room before a minor match, after days of unexplained disappearance. His return sparks a storm of questions and accusations. He offers no answers. With a blank stare and tense body, he prepares for a match that’s become his only escape from a deeper pain. A short that powerfully conveys the fragility and resilience of a man in turmoil.
Happy Song
Italy, 2023|12'08"|Drama
Director............Yuri Santurri
Production...............PunxFilm
Distribution.......Premiere Film
Nicole is the drummer of an all-female punk band led by the troubled Eleonora. Left alone, she embarks on a painful journey through her memories to rediscover an old promise.
PRODUCTION
WALK THE LINE
Director
Salvatore Martusciello
GOOD BEHAVIOR
Director
Francesco Gheghi
The Fight
Director
Andrea Ricciotti
Happy Song
Director
Yuri Santurri