Short film

The diary
2025 · 14 min
A warm, intimate festival diary that feels like a shared celebration of young people discovering cinema and themselves.
- Directed by
- Vito Montesano
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Leonardo Venturi, Giorgio Lomasto, Giovanni Cerri
- Overview
- A visual story that captures the essence of the Giffoni Film Festival, described by François Truffaut as “the most necessary of festivals.” It is not a simple documentary, but an emotional diary that mixes daily observations with creative narration. It is an intimate and collective look at Giffoni, a place that every summer is transformed into a small cinema town, inhabited by real emotions and personal visions. A tribute to cinema as a tool for growth and to a festival that manages to give a voice to those who, through cinema, seek to better understand themselves and the world.
- How it feels
- Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Coming-of-age, art, identity, friendship
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Vito Montesano
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Leonardo Venturi, Giorgio Lomasto, Giovanni Cerri

