The short film “Fantastic Variations…” at the Radici Urbane FF

Jun 10, 2025

Radici Urbane

Film Festival

The short film "Fantastic Variations on events that really happened in Turin at 1911"

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The short film “Fantastic Variations on events that really happened in Turin in 1911” by Giulio Maria Cavallini is in the official selection of the Radici Urbane Film Festival, Alessandria, Italy.

The short will be screened on Thursday, June 19 at the Cloister of Santa Maria di Castello, Alessandria.

RADICI URBANE

Radici Urbane was born with the aim of reconnecting the community to its foundations, celebrating the very essence of what it means to belong to this territory. The Cloister of Santa Maria di Castello (Alessandria, Italy) becomes the beating heart of Radici Urbane, a festival that celebrates the soul of Alessandria through art, music, cinema and gastronomic tradition. Radici Urbane is not just a festival, but a collective experience.

The short film

A pirate ship floats on the Po river in Turin. On the bank, a man calls for help to inert silhouettes of colored cardboard that represents corsairs, sultans and bajaderas. It’s the last theatre set up by Italy’s greatest adventure storyteller, Emilio Salgari, who exhausted his creativity and destroyed his wife’s life. The only human being to whom he can confess is a civic guard who has come down to the river to persuade him to unload his abusive theater.