Giulio Venier

A coming-of-age story that follows Matias, an Argentine filmmaker in his forties, struggling with an unfinished movie inspired by his elusive first love to Alexander, a Swedish friend he met at an international school in the 90’s. Tenderness and fascination define their strong friendship, which is short-lived when Alexander is suddenly expelled back to his country, leaving young Matias with an unresolved story of undeclared emotions. 25 years later, and Matias decides to reopen Pandora’s box as he embarks on a journey to find the ending to his story by coming face-to-face with Alexander, discovering life imitating art.

Professor Dal Colle finds a mysterious fresco in a church and then discovers a disturbing truth that dates back to the times of the Inquisition. He then decides to give an interview to a young journalist but mysteriously disappears before he can talk to him. Eager to complete his piece and intrigued by what Dal Colle would reveal to him, the journalist begins to investigate what happened, bringing to the fore a disconcerting reality about the inhabitants of a small Friulian village.

In a surreal little town called Gemona, lives Mauri, a man with a strange personality, afflicted by a rare kind of syndrome, that force him to stay always at home and spy his neighbours. Pieri, his doctor and lover, after the last removal, because of Mauri's continues attentions for the previous neighbor, went to Auckand for a convention of a clinic study case of a Mauri's syndrome. Left alone, Mauri, start to think about his neighbors, and his thoughts bring the man to terrible, sharp and strange deductions...