Short film in competition

La linea del terminatore Ender's Line

Directed by Gabriele Biasi
Italy 2023
Runtime 15'

La linea del terminatore is a documentary film that follows Fernanda Gonzalez as she escapes from Buenos Aires to Italy. Mixing official archive footage of space exploration with her personal archive, the film centres on Fernanda’s emotional journey as she is forced to confront the guilt of leaving her loved ones behind.

Directed by
Gabriele Biasi

Screenplay
Gabriele Biasi, Fernanda Gonzalez

Cinematography
Andrea Benjamin Manenti

Editing
Andrea Cimino

Music
Christian Mirto

Sound
Alberto Moscone

Cast
Stefano Spaghetti, Fernanda Gonzalez

Production
Pierfrancesco Bigazzi, Matteo Laguni, Andrea Rapallini (Materiali Sonori Cinema), Leonardo Kurtz Trimeloni, Dario Laudati (Hubris Pictures)

SIC@SIC 2023

Gabriele Biasi (1994) graduated in Film Studies at RUFA (Rome University of Fine Arts). His first documentary film, The Chrysalises, received a Special Mention Award at Visioni Italiane 2022. His second work was the avant-garde documentary AI Oracle: Lithium, financed by the Goethe Institut Australia and Collective no:topia. Conceived as a continuation to the art installation AI ORACLE, it was presented at PhEST – See Beyond The Sea (Italy). He is now developing his first feature film, Alex, io sono niente, which was selected at In Progress MFN 2023, and which will be screened in Venice this year at Milano Industry Days – MID by MFN #1, within the context of Giornate degli Autori.