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Logline

Life for Fede, a high school student living in nun-run housing in Italy is reliably routine until a new visitor arrives, inspiring her to go out of her way to make a connection.

Synopsis

This film follows Fede, a teenage girl who lives in a Pensionato, an aging, traditional nun house that provides lodging to young students and travelers in Bergamo, a small town in northern Italy.

Fede navigates life oscillating between her public high school and her small group of friends, though she spends her days lost in thought, polishing a secret inside of her.

Fede’s life is quietly upended with the arrival of Valentina, a new tenant who instigates a sudden, unexpected pull in Fede, forcing her to navigate the emotional minefields of a first love and new intimacy, or was it?

Incroci details this world of longing and self-revelation that opens up between two strangers.
 

Meet the Filmmakers

Francesca de Fusco – Writer/Director
Francesca de Fusco is an Italian-American filmmaker raised between Oak Park, California and Bergamo, Italy.

Her most recent film, Incroci, premiered at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival, winning the Special Mention Jury Prize in Generation 14plus and receiving a nomination for the TEDDY Award for Best Short Film. The project — supported by Inside Out Film Festival’s Focus Fund — won the Jury Prize at Vienna Shorts for Best Cinematography and has been selected as a 2023 National Board of Review Student Grant Winner.

Her debut short, Friends Like That, premiered at NEWFEST 2019 before playing at numerous international festivals, including Edinburgh International Film Festival and Inside Out Film Festival.

She received her MFA NYU Tisch School of the Arts where she was Willard T.C. Johnson Fellow.

Sofia Camargo – Cinematographer
Sofia Camargo is a New York-based filmmaker, born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her work as a filmmaker explores women and domestic life through deeply textured and disquieting storytelling.

Her latest short film, Al lado del río (By the River), 2019, was awarded the Official Selection Jury Award by The National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP), featured in the Official Selection of the Cartagena International Film Festival
2020, and selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick.

Sofia’s work as a director of photography has screened at festivals such as Berlinale, Aspen Short Fest, and the New York African Film Festival. In 2023, Sofia received the Vienna Shorts Jury Prize for Best Cinematography.

During her MFA Sofia received the Nikon Storytellers Scholarship 2018, the Jeff Lima Production Award 2020, and the Black Family Prize 2022.

Karishma Dube – Editor
Karishma Dube is an Indian filmmaker based in New York. Born and raised in New Delhi, she came to the states to attend the Graduate Film Program at NYU, as a recipient of the Dean’s Fellowship.

Her short film Bittu was shortlisted for the 93rd Academy Awards in 2021 and premiered at the Telluride Film Festival. The film also won the DGA Student Award and Student Academy Award in 2020. Karishma has been featured in Filmmaker’s Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film of 2021, additionally Karishma is the 2022 domestic recipient of the Academy Gold Fellowship for Women. Her previous short film Devi screened at several international film festivals including BFI London Film Festival, Frameline and Outfest LA where it won the Grand Jury Prize.

Christian Marsiglia – Editor
Christian Marsiglia, originally from Capri, Italy, is a graduate of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. He edited Simone Bozelli’s short J’Adore which won the best short film at the 35th Venice International Critic’s Week. He edited Playtime in 2021 which screened at Locarno Film Festival as part of the Pardi di Domani selections. Continuing his collaboration he edited Simone Bonelli’s debut feature Patagonia which premiered at Locarno Film Festival 76.

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