Roberto Valdivia
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Biography
Roberto Valdivia (Milano, 1993) after graduating from Istituto Tecnico Industriale Luigi Galvani attends the Media Design and Multimedial Arts faculty at NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milano). He Graduates in 2019 with a trilogy as thesis project, which will be completed once concluded the university course. His short film ¿Querido amigo hoy a donde vamos? participates to Aqueró Film Festival, winning the Jury Special Mention Prize. In 2020 the same short film takes part of Laterale Film Festival, in Cosenza. In 2021 his documentary Lima, Lima will be part of other international festivals. He currently works as a freelance filmmaker and carries on writing his next film, set in South America.
Known For

Milan, 2026. The day of Sara’s thirtieth birthday has arrived, and she has decided to spend it with her best friend Lea—partly to celebrate, but above all to confess that she will soon be leaving. Sara doesn’t know that Lea has already found out, and has even come up with a plan to make her stay—a kind of gift that begins with the pursuit of a strange van bearing the word: “Freeze.”
Freeze

In the labyrinthine streets of a decadent city, a lonely young man goes to an interview to become a rider. In his deliveries, he meets mysterious characters whose lives begin to intertwine in a framework of symbols and meanings, leading the rider to confront his deepest fears.
HYGGE

Three characters in search of their existence and their place in the world. A film that looks at art, literature and cinema.
The Memory of the World

In a small money transfer agency based in Milan, people send money to their family in homeland. The camera watches and listen silently giving the start for an archive of metropolitan stories. Spanish and Italian are melted together, time and space are alternated and a smile come from the boredom. A tiny space lived by episodes that are together the reflection of an entire community into another. Lima is not that far.
Lima, Lima

A boy lives alone in the desert. He spends the day gathering firewood, waiting for an old man to provide him of the essentials to his survival.
Sirio

After watching “Něco z Alenky” a child begins to travel, fantasizing about crossing space and time, just like the film character.