Cineolio's Cinenights

Aspis
Italy, 2025, 15 mins
Director: Antonio Romagnoli | Genre: Documentary
In the midst of untouched nature, free from any human trace, a viper awakens from hibernation. As every year, it resumes its life cycle without remembering the previous one. But something changes, and a new awareness emerges.

Long Trip
Belgium & Iraq, 2023, 11 mins
Director: Ali Kadhum | Genre: Narrative
After the death of his father, a young man must make a fundamental decision to either cremate the body or return it to be buried in his birth country as tradition subscribes.

Moderator
USA, 2024, 15 mins
Director: Eli Staub | Genre: Narrative
An immersive drama short film exposing the harrowing day in the life of a social media content moderator, based on true, anonymous stories.

Puquio
Peru, 2024, 14 mins
Director: Samantha Avila | Genre: Narrative
A 99-year-old woman reflects on the life she built after being abandoned by her son during the Shining Path's terrorist attacks in Peru. To fulfill a promise of reunion, she has spent decades selling her dreams as stories, hoping they will bring her family back on her 100th birthday.

Tsutsue
France & Ghana, 2022, 16 mins
Director: Amartei Armar | Genre: Narrative
Set in a small Ghanaian town at the edge of a large landfill site that spills into the ocean, the sons of a fisherman, Sowah and Okai, struggle to cope with the loss of their eldest brother, who drowned during a fishing expedition. Haunted by his demise, Okai believes their brother is still out there.

   

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