Ca’ Foscari Short Film Festival

L'attaque

  • Director: Aureliana Bontempo
  • Country: Italy
  • Duration: 15'15"
  • Genre: Fiction
  • Institute: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
  • Language: Italian

Synopsis: Aurora, since she was a child, has always wanted to defend the world from evil monsters, while for Emma, her sister, monsters only exist in fairy tales. When an unexpected event forces them to confront reality once again, Emma will be forced to question her beliefs: maybe monsters really do exist.

Profile: Aureliana Bontempo (Prato, 1997) graduated with a bachelor's degree in Disciplines of the Arts, Music and Entertainment from the University of Bologna in 2019 and earned her master's degree in Cinema, Television and New Media from IULM University of Milan in 2022. Her first short film, The Last Lover, which depicts the final utopias of the small towns in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, was presented in 2021 at the DesignAgorà festival in Porto, Portugal. She is currently attending the Directing course at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and serves as the director of the online cinema magazine ODGmagazine.com. In 2024, she directed the short films Ski Masters and L’attaque.