Fare Cinema is an annual week-long festival launched in 2018 to promote quality Italian cinema abroad, with global events held at Embassies, Consulates, and Italian Cultural Institutes. This year, we are showcasing our Italian short film selection presented at EuroAsia Shorts 2025, which includes Il Taglio di Jonas by Rosario Capozzolo, Uno dopo l'altro by Valerio Gnesini and S’Ozzastru by Carolina Melis.

Shorts in Italian with English Subtitles.

SHORTS SELECTION

Il Taglio di Jonas (Jonas' Haircut)

Italy, 2024, 10 min.

Director: Rosario Capozzolo

Jonas takes a journey to reach a beauty salon. Patty, the owner, will cut his hair. A haircut that will change both of their lives.

Uno dopo l'altro (One After the Other)

Italy, 2020, 10 min.

Director: Valerio Gnesini

An old man drives away with a little girl: it’s just the beginning of a story that touches the deepest sensibility and pushes ourselves to look inside us.

S’Ozzastru

Italy, 2023, 8 min.

Director: Carolina Melis

This is the story of a thousand-year-old tree, S’Ozzastru, a resilient ambassador of Nature and a silent witness of History. Beneath its branches, the lives of men and women slip by, often unaware of how much their existence depends on its presence