Experimental film "Laika Stardust" by italian actor Antonin Bobo is selected to the FICSAM International Mental Health Film Festival, starting in Portugal on October 5, 2017. The film is distributed by CinePromo.
FICSAM is a film and arts festival about mental health. Our goal is to sensitize the community for mental health issues throught diferent art aproaches.
Beside new audiences, promote films we wish to contribute to inclusion of all that suffer with mental health issue.
"Laika Stardust" was screened at various film festivals in USA, Lithuania, Russia and Italy. It has won Prizes for Best International Short Film at New Reinassance Film Festival in London and Best DoP Prize in USA at 30under30 Film Festival. In Portugal it will be screened for the first time.
LAIKA STARDUST
2016, Italy, 14:25'
written and directed by Antonin Bobo
produced by Stefano Chiavarini
DoP Debora Vrizzi
music by Bamboo
sound by Antonio Ferrigno
editor Francesco De Matteis
production designer Stella Rendina
cast: Tiziana Bozzacco, Angelo Del Vecchio
"Laika Stardust" is an experimental film set in the household of an upper class Italian family, in the not-too-distant future. Each family member is captivated by their use of technology, almost to the point of obsession.
The title of the film is the name of the video game played by the child in the family. When the child becomes seriously ill, his mother begins to unravel and we discover the hidden truth behind her heartbreak…
New Reinassance Film Festival, Best International Short Film Prize (2016, Great Britain, London)
30under30 Film Festival, Best DoP Prize (2016, USA, New York)
Atlanta Sci-fi Film Festival (2016, USA, Atlanta)
Pietrasanta Film Festival, Best Short Film Prize (2016, Italy, Pietrasanta)
Cyprus International Film Festival "Golden Aphrodite" (2016, Cyprus, Nicosia)
Kino pavasaris (2017, Lithuania, Vilnius)
International Film Festival "Light To The World" (2017, Russia, Yaroslal - Rybinsk)
Festival of Independent Cinema "KinoLikbez" (2017, Russia, Saint-Petersburg)
Film Festival "Point in the Endless Universe" (2017, Cyprus)
FICSAM International Mental Health Film Festival (2017, Portugal, Faro)