Original title Sulla terra leggeri
Genre Drama
Director Sara Fgaier
Country, yearItalia, 2024
Runtime 94'
Technical specs DCP
Aspect ratio Scope
Production Limen, Avventurosa, Dugong Films, con Rai Cinema
Cinecittà rights Theatrical Italy
Film
Weightless
Gian, a 65-years-old ethnomusicology professor, fights the darkness caused by a sudden amnesia. Flashes of the past, with the appearance of hazy archive footage, haunt his mind like a phantasmagoria of images.
Miriam, the daughter he does not recognize, moves into his apartment with her son Elyas. She gives him a diary written in his twenties that revolves around Leila, a girl with whom he discovers love in the space of one night. This emotion exacerbates Gian’s pain but invites him to recover his memory.
Who is this woman who was that important in his past? What happened to her? How could he forget such intense and intimate moments shared with her? Gian’s unmoored present-day life is gradually replaced by the vivid images of that past. Only by searching for Leila will he be able to find himself again.
What is the mechanism that moves our memories?
What happens if we forget the love of our life?
And, conversely: what if they forget us?
Festival
Locarno Film Festival 2024: Official Selection
Crew
Screenplay Sara Fgaier, Sabrina Cusano, Maurizio Buquicchio
Script Sara Fgaier e Sabrina Cusano
Cinematography Alberto Fasulo
Editing Aline Hervé, Sara Fgaier, Enrica Gatto
Costume design Andrea Cavalletto
Set design Santo-Pablo Krappmann
Music Carlo Crivelli
Cast
Andrea Renzi,
Sara Serraiocco,
Emilio Francis Scarpa,
Lise Lomi,
Maria Fernanda Cândido,
Stefano Rossi Giordani,
Amira Chebli,
Elyas Turki