Foam of Worlds
Island of S. Erasmo, Venice. Antonia (40) is a lawyer navigating joys and difficulties of single motherhood. Discouraged by an increasingly precarious freelance career, she spends her mornings searching for alternatives. Her daughter Lena (8) attends a mixed-age class at a primary school at risk of imminent closure. These isolated circumstances drive the little girl to roam the island and come into contact with other forms of animal life inhabiting that space between land and sea. As the water rises and the citizens of Venice begin to face up to their future, Antonia starts to reinvent the sense of her legal practice.
Credits
Director, Editor, Producer
- Anna Marziano
Director of Photography
- Armin Dierolf and
- Anna Marziano
Music
- Rafael Toral
Co-producer
- Zsuzsanna Kiràly – Flaneur Films
Associate Producer
- Manuela Buono – Slingshot Films
Sound Editor
- Christian Obermaier
Sound Mixer
- Jochen Jezussek
Technical information
Italy 2026DCP · 1 : 1.85 · 5.1 Mix ·
With
- with Laura Fantacuzzi, Alea Lori Marziano, Michele Carducci, Carlo Giupponi, Sonia Sommacal, Angela Bitonti
Funding provided by
- Kultur Ensemble ,
- Goethe Institut Palermo , and
- Harun Farocki Institut Berlin 2024 in the frame of the artistic residency Terms and Conditions
Festival
- FIDMarseille – International Competition, GNCR Competition
World Sales
- Manuela Buono – Slingshot Films
Bio/Filmo
Anna Marziano studied Political Sciences and Philosophy in Italy. She trained in photography at CSC Rome and in documentary direction at Ateliers Varan and Le Fresnoy Studio National. Since then she has been producing a consistent body of short and mid-lenght filmworks presented at TIFF Toronto, Torino Film Festival, IFFR Rotterdam, Cinéma du Réel Paris, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, FIC Valdivia, BIFF Argentina, MAXXI Rome, Wexner Center for the Arts, Museum of the Moving Image NYC, National Gallery Washington DC, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Media City film festival, Punto de Vista, L’alternativa. In the recent years, both Mostra del Cinema di Pesaro and Volksbuehne Berlin dedicated a retrospective focus to her films. Her works are preserved at Bibliothèque nationale de France and Cineteca di Bologna. She currently teaches direction at Brera Academy of the Arts (Milan).