The short film “Fantastic Varations” at the 24th gLocal FF

Nov 5, 2025

gLocal 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 24th gLocal Film Festival, Italy.

📅 The festival will take place from November 11th to 15th.
➡ The short film will be screened on Thursday, November 13th at 6:30pm at Cinema Massimo, Turin.

🎥 Production: Epica Film

gLocal Film Festival

The gLocal Film Festival, now in its 24th year, has been open to exchanges and cross-fertilization with other festivals, both local and national, since 2018, while maintaining a central focus on films produced, made, and distributed in Piedmont.
The event is organized by the Piemonte Movie Association, a cultural organization founded in 2000. Its mission is to promote and disseminate films made in Piedmont. The festival showcases regional cinema, past, present, and future, through short film and documentary competitions, tributes, and focus events.

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.