Giulio Mastromauro
Directing
Biography
Giulio Mastromauro grew up in Molfetta, a small town in Puglia, and graduated very young in Law despite his strong passion for cinema. Immediately after graduating, he decided to leave everything and move to Rome, where he was admitted to the preparatory course of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. In the following years he wrote and directed several short films appreciated by audiences and critics: "Carlo & Clara" (2013), winner of a special prize at the David di Donatello Awards and selected in over 100 festivals worldwide; "Nuvola" (2015) with Mimmo Cuticchio, nominated for the Nastri d’Argento and winner of over 50 awards; "Valzer" (2016), in competition - among others - at Flickers’ Rhode Island Int. Film Festival. In 2016 he founded with Virginia Gherardini the distribution company of short films Zen Movie, winner with its works of a David di Donatello Award, two Nastri d’Argento, a Globo d’Oro and a Palm d’Or at Cannes. His latest short film, "Inverno (Timo’s winter)" (2020), is winner of the David di Donatello Award 2020 for Best Short Film.
Known For
In a curious-looking old hospital, an elderly couple, Carlo and Clara, is waiting for their turn tenderly holding hands. There is a choice to be made, and the woman begins to hesitate. Only the words of the loving Carlo will be able to transform fear into courage. At one point the setting makes way for animation, suggested and overlapped by the words of Clara. It leads the listener to a deep reflection on life. The brief evocation of the magic of existence is imprinted in the deeply moved smile of the woman, certain that life on Earth is nothing but a stage of eternity.
Carlo and Clara
The personal journey of a motivated and determined bio-medical researcher who was marked by the early loss of his mother during his childhood.
ReImagine
Timo, the youngest of a Greek community of Funfair workers, will have to face the hardest winter together with his loved ones.
Timo's Winter
Filippo is a retired teacher marked by pain over the loss of his wife. The man is determined to take his life, but someone knocks his door.
Nuvola
Italy, 2038. Alice and Kristin are pregnant and live isolated from the rest of the world, fully in love with each other. Their lives are inextricably bound to that of a young man.
Valzer
Children can be loud, carefree, playful, unaware, violent. Also in Taranto, an industrial city in Southern Italy which has the largest steel mill factory in Europe since the 1960s. Observing their movements and listening to their emotions, we enter the world of childhood while losing ourselves in the present of this territory, the scene of one of the most serious health and environmental disasters in Italian and European history. Bangarang is a Jamaican word meaning tumult, disorder, chaos.