The short film “Fantastic variations…” wins at the Alessandria FF

Oct 20, 2025

Alessandria Film Festival

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Valerio Binasco, lead actor of the short film “Fantastic Variations on events that really happened in Turin in 1911” by Giulio Maria Cavallini, wins the Cappello del Cinema Award at the 7th Alessandria Film Festival, Italy.

➡ The Cappello del Cinema Award is an official recognition of Alessandria and represents the cinematic excellence linked to the city.

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.