The things you don't know about me, mum
Original:Le cose che non sai di me, mamma

Short Film, documentary, drama
2022
Production: Italy/Germany

Logline:
Luz is a survivor of the Pinochet regime. Forty years after she left Chile, in a sort of a diary page, Luz imagines to tell her mother the things that she didn’t want to know.

Synopsis:
The real story of Luz: the conflictual relationship of a mother and her daughter with the chilean dictatorship as background. Luz is from the side of Allende, she believes in freedom, in democracy and in a respectful world where everyone has the same value. Her mother is catholic, supports Pinochet and the coup d’etat. Forty years later Luz’s mother is affected from dementia.
Nevertheless Luz wants to break the painful silence between her and her mother and she imagines to tell her the truth about her in Santiago, the facts where she was tragically involved that were consciously ignored by her mother.
A monologue in the form of a diary, a sort of written page that allows the protagonist to redeem herself from the pain of silence and to reconcile her (virtually) with her mother.


Festival Screenings:
Amnesty International Au Cinema pour les Droits Humains 2023
Miami New Media Film Festival 2023
Dhaka International Film Festival 2023
RETURN INTERNATIONAL Film & Art Festival 2022 Weimar (Mon Ami Cinema)
13th Festival EDUKINO 2022, National Museum Warsaw
Festival International de Cine de America (Mexico) 2022

The things you don't know about me, mum

Love: One way ticket to Berlin (2021,Germany/Italy)
Documentary, Short
Logline:
Whether having come in Berlin for love or having fallen in love in Berlin, some women coming from different parts of the world give an insight of the capital confronting themselves with women issues experienced in their countries.

Tag:Education, emancipation, feminism, love, migration, sexual identity, sexual issues, violence, woman, woman's portrait

Festival Selections/ Screenings:
Vizantrop Film Festival, Belgrade
Visions of Immigration: sculpting the Mosaic,  2022 Manchester 
‘Zooming In’ and the TRAVELLING ROADSHOW SERIES ‘Zooming Out,’ as part of Multicultural Film Festival 2022
Dhaka International Film Festival 2022
WMA - Wirtualne Muzeum Antropocenu 2022
4th Meihodo International Youth Visual Media Festival 2021
Il Kino Berlin 2021
Feminist Film Festival 2021, Bucharest
Rhodope International Documentary Film Festival 2021
Max Diversity Film Festival 2021
Edukino, The educational Film Festival 2021, Poland
Diogenes 2021, Georgia

Publications:
Zine Flame

Love: One way ticket to Berlin

One, None and One Hundred Thousand (2021, Germany/Italy)
Logline:
In an ordinary day a man meets his other selves.

Selections/Screenings:
Montgomery College, Morris & Gwedolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center
Vertical Movie 2021(Italy), Nomination
Mykolaiv ART Week: CHANGE (Ukraine)
VertiFilms (Prague)
3rd OHISFF, Papakura Art Gallery, Auckland, Aotearoa

One, none and one hundred thousand

"Coming back" is a spot made for the Sunspot Award 2020 in Usedom that won the second prize.
https://vimeo.com/466161592
http://www.sunspot-award.de/

Drehbuch, Regie, Produktion: Daniela Lucato
Cinematography: Jacopo Pantaleoni
Darsteller:
Heinz Müller
Maximilian Aldehoff
Voice Over: Volker Figge
Schnitt: Daniela Lucato
Color: Jacopo Pantaleoni
Musik: "Tempo" von Gianni Latrofa
Sound Designer, Mix: Federico Milanesi

Filmmacher Deutschland
SunspotAward2020
Usedom Tourismus Gmbh

"Coming back" for Sunspot Award 2020

During the COVID-19 pandemic Sami apparently calls a friend to tell her a tragic episode.

Awards/Festival Selections:
1st Prize H-Team Kunst Wettbewerb 2022 zum Thema "Soziale-Netz-Werke"
1st Prize Inventa un Film (Italy)/Pandemic Films 2021
1st Place Divan Art Prize 2020 
Cefalù Film Festival 2022 Honorable mention
Femifilms 2022 Spain
Exhibition Against Violence-WL4 Art Space, Gdansk (Poland)
Ficnova Film Festival 2022
Festival de Cine Colectivo 2022
Latest Visions International's Women Days - Northern Visions (NVTV) - Belfast
- Latest TV - Brighton
- Sheffield Live! - Sheffield
- KMTV - Kent
Created by Women Channel
XIII Premio Internazionale Roberto Rossellini – Roma Film Corto Fest 2021Selezione Ufficiale
Il Kino Berlin 
Festival international du film d'éducation 2021, Paris
Premio Fausto Rossano 2021      
Video Fenster Project, Goethe Institut Paraguay 2021               
Tour International Film Festival                 
SEMANA ¡VIVA EL CINE!                                                          
Nominated at 2nd Health for all Film Festival _WHO_World Health Organization/"Health Equity"
Amnesty International Festival au Droits Humains 2021
Mykolaiv ART Week: CHANGE 2021
Apricot Tree Film Festival 2021, Armenia 2021
International Tour Film Festival 2021(Italy)
UMANITÀ - il mondo che verrà/Human rights - The world to come (Naples)2021
UNCG Sustainability Shorts Film Competition 2021Maker Art Festival Section- National 2021
Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon 2021 
Berlin Shorts Movie Nights, Hanoi University, Vietnam 2021
ARTBURST BERLIN 2021
Karnekunst Vierte Welle Festival 
Oncurating Project Space, Zurich 2021
Loosenart, Contrasts (Rome 2021)
Videofenster 2021
Visioni Altre, Gallery in Venice, 2021
Dhaka International Film Festival 
Atlantidoc, Uruguay 2020
Miami New Media Festival 2020
VOTV Vallès Oriental Televisió 2020
COVID DIARIES  Design Transfer- UDK Berlin 2020
Hello WORLD TransCultural Exchange 2020
"Do you hear me?" Contest by Marcaj Art
Georgian Film Academy Diogene Festival 2020
2020 Three Minutes Video Contest (Taipei)
Cápsula Exposition
Cock and Bull Theatre/ Chicago - Artists in Isolation
Retro. New Media Fest
HHWTD Radio - MIXLR.com ( EPISODE 4: RETURNS)
Art Veine _Collective exhibition “What about tomorrow?”
Encuentro de Imagen MMXX “Nuevos Documentalismos“ Mexico
Sphere- World Cinema Carnival Festival, India 
Artist against abuse! -The Shoe Factory Social Club, Norwich
Covid-19 / Lockdown | Exhibition @ SEAS 
KCAW20 Online Exhibition - Little Voices'- Kensington + Chelsea Art Week 
Women’s Film Festival – LetsStartTheRevolution Competition Demakijaż  in Lublin, Poland 
Badalona Film Festival, Spain  
Festival Panoramic - Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona 
Viola(ta) e le altre storie - Organizzazione Alphaztl Compagnia d'Arte Dinamica

My name is Sami

Short Film 2018 https://www.forthetimebeingfilm.com
Germany/italy

Award Best International Short -Downtown Urban Arts Festival- Tribeca Film Center- New York
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/RIDINSHOTGUN-Wins-Tops-Honors-At-2019-DUAF-20190723fbclid=IwAR0PVLQGRzspYn_u93uNLyfRstXLwXXMLDV0CJWofoeWkRCHV5B1zgsmaf0

Trailer selected from  SHORTS TV CHANNEL -
soon on https://shorts.tv/en/tv

Poster Photo For The time Being Film/Sabatino Cersosimo@


Downtown Urban Arts Festival/DUAF
Venues: Tribeca Film Center and Made in new York Media Center by IFP


Festival Selections/Awards
Official Selection Visioni Italiane Cineteca di Bologna 2018 
Cannes Corner 2018
Official Selection ShanghaiPRIDE 2018
Screening at MyArtfilm Festival 2018
Boddinale Berlin 2019
Pordenone Young Film Market 2019
Award Best International Short FIlm Downtown Urban Arts Festival- Tribeca Film Center 2019

Logline:
Roman deals with alcohol and economical problems.The meeting with Mel will make him wonder about who he his and what he would like to change in his life.

Synopsis:
After a long and conflictual relationship with his wife, Roman finds himself alone.
To face economical problems he decides to sublet one room in his house.
Mel will be the first to answer his announcement.
When he moves in Roman’s house he will make him wonder about who he his and what
he would like to change in his life.
For the first time Roman confronts himself with someone who challenges him.
Roman needs to understand what is happening inside himself, what does he really need?

redits
 
Script, Director,                 Daniela Lucato
Producer                          
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DOP                                Jacopo Pantaleoni &Brian Pertti
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Sound Designer                    Pierre Carlier
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Music                              Enrico Deiana, Giorgio Lai,
                                     Massimiliano Achenza, SO KO,
                                     Lorenzo Bonarini
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Cast                                Crisjan Zöllner, Pascal Houdus,
                                     Daniela Lucato, Dela Dabulamanzi,
                                     Jade Samson Kermarrec, Giovanni Morassutti
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For The Time Being

Mamma Dorme (Mommy's sleeping)
Short Film 
Italy/Germany
Length 12 Minutes

Logline: Ada lives suspended between reality and memory. The memory of her father and his gestures fill the silence of the days.

Synopsis: Ada is charmed by the subtle limit that separates reality and memory and lets the nostalgic memories of her father mix with the simple sound of everyday events.
Inspired by the poems in the collection "Memory in the Body" by Antonella Sica, the film explores the theme of death, its almost dreamlike presence in the world of the living and the power of gestures and its symbolic value in evoking memories.

Credits:
Written and Directed by Daniela Lucato
Photography Jacopo Pantaleoni
Sound Editing/Mixing Federico Milanesi
Boomer Lorenzo Bonarini, Francesco Cremonesi
Musica Sergio Marchesini, Francesco Ganassin
Graphic Designer Marco Piuri

Cast
Maria Grazia Mandruzzato as Ada
Matilde Cremonese as the little Bianca
Emanuele Piovene as the Father
Lucia Viola Zampieri as the mother of Bianca

Festivals Selections/ Screenings
Best international short film at DGIFF- THE DIGITAL GATE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Cefalù Film Festival 2022
Panorama International Film Festival 2022,Tunisia
Il Kino Berlin 2021
4th Meihodo International Youth Festival 2021
SHORTS TV
Ankara Flying Broom Women Film Festival World Premier /Competition 2020
Open Screening Oberhausen 2020
Eclectic47
Art&Film Collective
Festival International Cine Mundo de Cortometrajes 2020



Mamma Dorme Short Film (Mommy's sleeping)

Short Film
Video Art, Experimental, Dance, Poetry
Logline: The body tries a dialogue with a friend who has left but who lives through her reminiscence.

Synopsis:
Inspired by the poems from Antonella Sica "La memoria nel corpo" the film talks about memory. It is a story of a friendship. The body tries a dialogue with a friend who has left but who lives through her reminiscence.

Credits:
**Connecting Fingers Company**
Direction,Script, Choreography: Daniela Lucato
Photography, Colour: Jacopo Pantaleoni
Dancer: Chiara Franco
Aerial Photography: Lorenzo Busi, Lorenzo DePoli, Marco Savini
Editing: Daniela Lucato
Music: Reverie di Ross Bugden
Official Selections/Screenings:
Italian Contemporary Film Festival, Toronto 2022
Mykonos Biennale 2021
Circe - Experimental Platform for Dance and Theatre, Georgia
GRRL HAUS CINEMA at Loophole Berlin 2019 Premiere
Festival Refluxo -Centro Cultural UFG - Brasil - Official Selection
Danzattack2019 -Festival International de Danza Y CineDanza Canarias Islands - Official Selection
SPMAV Videoart Festival at Arts Center of the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel)
DA FEST( International Digital Art FestIval) Sofia -Bulgaria
Inside/Outside Arts Symposium at Winchester 
School of Art- Chapel Arts Studios
Link_Up Film Festival Berlin
Asimtria  Festival, Perù
Boddinale
FILE Festival 2020- Electronic Language international Festival -Sao Paulo,Brazil
Blue2blue Drone Film Festival, Australia
Artes para adiar o fim do mundo!!
Casa Visual Galeria ,Brazil
Three Minutes Video Competition-Taipei Screening 
Kunsthalle Hamburger Platz Berlin
Eclectic Fest Digital Revolution- Quebec
Materic.org
Quinzena de Danca de Almada 2020
Goethe Institut Lisbon 2020
Cine Sisters SW Short Film,Plymouth Arts Cinema
Armenia Art Fair 2020
Energy at Espronceda Institute of Art &Culture Barcelona
Facade Video Festival - a project of the Art Today Association - Center for Contemporary Art – Plovdiv, The Ancient Bath

Vieni

Trilogy(The Wheel)

Connecting Fingers Company
Author: Sara Fortuna
Director/Choreographer: Daniela Lucato
With and by: Nicola Campanelli,Roberta Ricci, Giulia Fani
Music: David Travers
Photography: Jacopo Pantaleoni

With the kind support of Grün Berlin GmbH
Special thanks to Christa Kuchenbecker and Milian Vogel

Trilogy

The Wheel Short Film
(Germany, Ireland, Italy 2017)
Length: 8 minutes HD Colour
https://www.facebook.com/thewheelshortfilm/

The symbolic travel of a kid going through childhood to adult world
 told through dance in a balance of imagination and dream.

Credits:
Director/Producer: Daniela Lucato
Script: Sara Fortuna
Cinematography/Colour: Jacopo Pantaleoni
Music: David Travers
Dancers/Performers: Roberta Ricci, Nicola Campanelli,
Elia Pantaleoni, Connecting Fingers Company
Editor: Daniela Lucato

Kindly supported by Malzfabrik and Mesami

Tags: youth, coming of age, identity,dance

​####COMING SOON######

The Wheel Short Film

Connecting Fingers
The Wheel(Chapter 1)Trailer
https://vimeo.com/211885378
https://www.facebook.com/connectingfingers/

In cooperation with MALZFABRIK and Mesami
http://www.malzfabrik.de/

Shortfilm coming soon---

The Wheel  Chapter1 - Short Film Trailer

THE WHEEL - DANCE THEATRE PERFORMANCE
A dialogue among different voices:
a director, a philosopher of language, two dancers. 
From the script by philosopher Sara Fortuna, inspired by Dogville from Lars von Trier, we will explore through dance a circular conceptual space organized in several steps: sleep/pre birth/origin, child openess to the adult world in its tensions, contradictions, competitions, failures and eventual coming back to the starting point (sleep/pre birth but also death).

We refer for instance to the tension between extroversion and introversion, sadism and masochism, to perception ambiguity and aspect change, contradictions, tautologies in bodily expression- notions explored via psychoanalytical (Jung, Freund, Lacan), psycological (Gibson), semiotical (Peirce) and philosophical (Kant, Wittgenstein) reflections.

BY Connecting Fingers Company
Writer/Author: Sara Fortuna
Director/Choreography: Daniela Lucato
Dancers/Choreography: Nicola Campanelli, Roberta Ricci
Music: David Travers

****More Info coming soon**** Stay tuned:
https://www.facebook.com/connectingfingers


Expat Expo Festival- English  Theatre Berlin 
April 2017

The Wheel (Connecting Fingers Company)


“Of course I´m not perfect. I love my life and I have been lucky but I’m not perfect. I made my mistakes. I just followed the voice inside me. This damned voice inside has driven me somewhere, and I can’t come back.” Bob about himself

“I want to be honest with you. The only present I can offer.

I chose the place and the time. I share my world with you.

You are allowed to see what you want, it´s your time” Bianca to you

Sometimes we need illusions to survive and we create a world that doesn’t correspond to reality.

We need to stay in a comfortable space. We are scared to leave. We have fear. We want security. We escape in our mental constructions and we finally find ourselves again.

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Balancing on the two levels of reality and dream, the piece focuses on the theme of identity. Using psychological violence, an apparently stronger person tries to confirm herself and her existence destroying someone who appears weaker.

 


Call Me Reality - a theatre performance

Connecting Fingers 

An encounter with some refugees.
What would it be like if for one day, for one hour, for one minute we watch things with their eyes and hear what they want to tell us? In attempting to connect with these stories, dancers will lead us on a second journey.

Concept/Dramaturgy/Direction: Daniela Lucato 
Choreography Assistance: Alessio Trevisani
Music Designer: David Travers
Cultural Mediator:Kathrine Janetzki
Dancers: Nicola Campanelli, Ana Cotoré, Liat Benattis, Maia Pik, Martha Hincapié
Costumes: LABO.ART
Lights: Simone Trotta/Brian Pertti

Premiere: 3rd of June 2015  10pm English Theatre Berlin for Expat Expo


Connecting Fingers

Short Film - Germany 2014 - 15 minutes
Mandarin/ English
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Official Selection TGLFF 2015 (World Premiere)
Cannes Corner 
ShanghaiPRIDE Nominated for the best cinematography/sound/music - Asia Premiere
Frameline (San Francisco) Official Selection- North America Premiere

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Plot outline
Two taiwanese girls, Ron and May, are living in Berlin. As Ron’s birthday approaches, the different love that they feel for each  other places them in front of a meaningful change.

Written, directed and edited by Daniela Lucato
Starring: Vivian Jung Chang,Yung-Ching Chiu
Director of Photography: Fàbio Mota
Foley,Sound design & Mix: Kolloagency
Boom operator: Jacopo Vannini
Gaffer/Boom operator 2: Brian Pertti
Digital Colorist: Felix Trolldenier

Music Producer: Jacopo Vannini
Artists: Miss Natasha Enquist - Lost brand - Edwina & Deko - Bias -GolemInLove

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