Rome Independent Cinema Festival 2025
Schedule
Fri Sep 12 2025 at 07:00 pm to 10:30 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Casa del Cinema | Rome, LA
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The Rome Independent Cinema Festival 2025 programme combines short and feature-length films of various genres and styles.Highlighting new talents, upcoming filmmakers and established cinematographers, the RICF is a celebration of independent cinema. From documentary and fiction to experimental and animation films, this year's programme spotlights the power of new voices.
### PROGRAMME 1 | 19:00 - 20:30 ###
▶️ God Please Send a Whale, Julie Bezerra Madsen, Feature Documentary Film Competition, Denmark
The film follows two very different sisters on their journey on the sea of sorrow. Julie's mother passed away on a vacation in Brazil 6 years ago, and Julie didn't make it to the funeral. Now, Julie wants the funeral she never had. She invites her father to Brazil, where her sister lives. Julie and her sister have never talked about the loss of their mother, but shortly after arriving in Rio, Julie realizes that neither her sister or father feels like making a farewell ceremony. They're more into BBQs and karaoke, turning Julie's heartfelt journey into a complete failure. The past and complicated family relationships hinder coming together in grief. And the question is whether grief can be shared at all.
🍿 Break: 20:30 - 20:40 🍿
### PROGRAMME 2 | 20:40 - 22:35 ###
▶️ Seeds for All! • Juan Pablo Daranas Molina • 10' • United States • 2025 • Student Film Competition
An ambitious Latina executive navigates the most important day of her career while unaware of a big booger on her face. Will anyone tell her...? — An absurdist satire about the etiquette of identity in our times. Executive produced by Spike Lee.
▶️ Crush • Simone Marino • 8' • Italy • 2024 • Short Experimental Film Competition
In the Venetian lagoon, to board boats and ferries, one must first take a few steps onto a floating platform called "imbarcadero". In Chioggia, near Venice, among the many docking points, there lives an abandoned one. For far too long, no one has walked upon it. No foot deigns to tread on it, and even more importantly, all the boats ignore it. There was just one boat that, once upon a time, made it wobble. Theirs wasn’t exactly a love story. It was more like a dance, a game of chase, a recognizing and ignoring. It wasn’t even a real infatuation. In the murky sea and the placid lagoon, what this imbarcadero experienced was a simple, overpowering crush.
▶️ After Anna • Lucie Plumet • 17' • France • 2024 • Short Fiction Film Competition
One evening, the doorbell rings at Adrien's house. It's Victor, whom he hasn't seen for years: his sister, Anna, has disappeared. They set off to find her in the streets of the Paris suburbs. But as the two friends worry about Anna, they come face to face with their own frailties.
▶️ So Small, Looking All Grown Up • Tânia Dinis • 20' • Portugal • 2024 • Short Documentary Film Competition
So small, looking all grown up, combines fictional and documentary treatment and uses photographic archives, real images and the oral testimony of several women from the regions of Trás-os-Montes, Beira, Alto and Baixo Minho who, between the 1940s and 1980s, came to the city of Porto to work as domestic servants.
▶️ Number32. Giant Fish • Seunghyun Si • 10' • South Korea • 2024 • Short Animation Film Competition
During Lunch break on an elementary school field day, Minsu wins a Giant fish-shaped candy(Dalgona) from a lucky draw. Even though his friends wanted a bite, Minsu decided to eat candy all by himself. Then, he got eaten by a Giant fish that suddenly appeared from the air. Discharged through Giant fish's poop hole, Minsu faces an eccentric sight as nutrients of his body are all squeezed out.
▶️ The Neighborhood • Tania Scalercio • 18' • Italy • 2024 • Short Documentary Film Competition
This is the story of a place that served for seven years as the filming location for the television series 'My Brilliant Friend', based on Elena Ferrante’s acclaimed novels. Told through the perspective of Alba Rohrwacher, the protagonist of the series final season, and through nature, which adapted and thrived in this place over time, the story captures the place’s ephemeral transformation. Originally a true non-place, it came to life as 'The Neighborhood' (‘Il Rione’), the largest open-air film set in Europe. Yet, after filming ended, The Neighborhood was demolished, returning the place to the non-place it once was, except in the memory of those who lived and breathed it.
📌 Free Entrance
📌 Films are in English or have English subtitles
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Where is it happening?
Casa del Cinema, Largo Marcello Mastroianni, 1, 00197 Roma RM, Italia, Rome, ItalyEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
