di Tiziano Russo
Italy, 2024, 105', color
07 December 20:30 - Cineteca Milano Arlecchino

Sandra, a psychology graduate, has just been hired by the famous online psychotherapy website fattivedere.com. When she rushes home to tell the news to Stefano, her live-in boyfriend for ten loving years now, she finds him walking out the door, suitcases in hand: he’s breaking up with her and not saying why. Sandra is devastated and feels she is entitled to an explanation. Sure enough, on her first day on the job, she learns that due to a bug in the system, she has had the identity and the photo of a spry seventy-year-old woman foisted on her. Not only: one of her first patients is her ex. Just in time, she turns off the webcam so he won’t recognize her and fakes the voice of the seventy-year-old psychotherapist. So it is that Sandra, throwing deontological concerns to the wind, decides, with the help of Marco, a private investigator, to conduct the following sessions like a nouveau Mrs. Doubtfire, assuming the guise of the person whose online identity she has involuntarily stolen in order to get the answer to the question obsessing her: why did you leave me?

screenplay
Roberto Proia
Giulio Carrieri
cinematography
Vito Frangione
editing
Giorgia Currà

music
Alessandro Bencini
production design
Noemi Marchica
costumes
Giorgia Maggi

cast
Matilde Gioli (Sandra)
Francesco Centorame (Stefano)
Pierpaolo Spollon (Marco)
Asia Argento (Benedetta)
Giorgia Trasselli
(Sandra Robbiati)

producer
Roberto Proia
executive producer
Gianluca Leurini
production
Eagle Pictures

Italian distribution
Eagle Pictures


Tiziano Russo
(Nardò, 1985) directed the TV teen drama Skam Italia 5 and Skam Italia 6. In 2014, his documentary Habemus Mister bowed at Bif&st. Four years later, he made the short L’uomo proibito. His 2023 film Noi anni luce was his feature directorial debut. He has directed music videos for: Ghali, Francesco Gabbani, Ermal Meta, Biagio Antonacci, Negramaro, Piotta, and Dardust, along with eight episodes of Sei in un paese meraviglioso and commercials for Enel, Jagermeister, Fox Tv, and As Roma. His first time as a stage director was Attraverso il Deserto, il Deserto Rosso, starring Violante Placido and Davide Boosta Dileo.

2024 Fatti vedere
2023 Noi anni luce

2018 L’uomo proibito (short)
2014 Habemus Mister (doc)