The short film “Fantastic Variations…” at the 7° Alessandria FF

Oct 15, 2025

Alessandria Film Festival

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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 7th Alessandria Film Festival, Italy.

The short film will be screened on Saturday, October 18th at 6:00pm at the Sala Kubrick, cinema Kristalli, Alessandria.

Alessandria Film Festival

The ALFF aims to provide a space for emerging and independent cinema, promoting young directors and their original and creative works, and to focus attention on the film professions essential to the final version of the film, through workshops and conferences.

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.