Niccolò Donatini
Writing
Biography
Niccolò Donatni (b. 1998) is a film director and editor. He graduated in 2023 in Cinema and New Technologies from IULM University, with a thesis on Slow Cinema. His films La Lastra (2022), AEOLUS (2024), and Ronzìo (2024) explore social and political themes and have been selected at festivals such as FEDIC, FIDBA, Milano Short Film Festival, RIFF, and others. Since 2023, he has been directing commercials for brands such as Baracuta and taking part in major international residencies. His latest work, De donde vienes, Silencio (2025), was made under the supervision of Pedro Costa and premiered at Alice nella Città in the Onde Corte – Panorama Italia section.
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Alma (20), who has ADHD, works as a beekeeper but dreams of a life in the city. The day before her university exam, Pietro, her father, expresses his concerns about his daughter’s future. During the test, Alma struggles against the distractions caused by her condition but is interrupted by a tender memory: a bee buzzing around her. This event takes her back in time, to her first encounter with the beehives. What at first seems chaotic reveals itself to her as the most intelligent of natural structures.
The Buzz
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
Tobia spent his days at Giulia and Riccardo’s house. Behind their house lies a huge imposing hill “the Lastra”. Between games, bets and discoveries, Tobia and his brother challenge each other to conquer the summit.
The Slab
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AEOLUS
On her birthday, Greta avoids the town fair. After work at a piñata shop, she finds silence in a secret spot. Returning home, as fireworks crackle and the corrida begins, her father, missing for five years, is back.
Where do you come from, Silence
A simple-minded obese man devoted to his needy mother has his world upended when he falls for a skinny girl - now, he just needs to tell Mamma.
Mamma
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