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L’ESTATE DI GIACOMO
(Summer of Giacomo)
a film by Alessandro Comodin
produced by Paolo Benzi - co-produced by Les Films Nus (Belgium) and Les Films d’Ici (France) - in coproduction with Wallpaper Productions (France), CBA (Belgium), Tucker Film (Italy) - Lenght: 78’ - Shooting format: S16mm - Screening format: DCP – Italian with english/french subt.

It’s summer in the countryside of northeastern Italy.
Giacomo, nineteen, deaf since childhood and Stephanie, his childhood friend, sixteen, go to the river for a picnic. Like in an enchanted fairy tale they get lost in the woods and find themselves in a heavenly place during an afternoon that seems to last a whole summer. An apprenticeship of senses: there is no touching, yet it is all skin, breath and sighs. A story of love and initiation into adulthood where the present is mixed with memory and the past rises with the clarity and amazement of the first time. The memories are not only those that each of us carry within ourselves and suddenly remember, they are also real discoveries. We have to know that we never see things the first time, but always the second. So we discover them and remember them together.

Centre du cinéma et de l'audiovisuel de la Communauté Française de Belgique
Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée
Fondo per l'Audiovisivo Friuli Venezia Giulia
Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia
Périphérie - Centre de Création Cinèmatographique
Developed within the program Eurodoc 2009