The Festival’s preselection directorate and jury has announced the 2019 short-universe finalist works, which will be screened in competition from 24 to 27 July in Tuscania.

These are the words of Riccardo Romboli, Artistic Director of the Festival:

“After a careful selection of the many short films we have received, we are happy to announce the selection for the 2019 edition of Universo Corto. The choice, really complex due to the excellent quality of the works viewed, managed to enclose that variety of film genres and that cosmopolitan character which is one of the characteristics of our festival. We are confident that our public will be able to appreciate and have fun with the projections in the splendid setting of the town of Tuscania“.

These are the chosen works in alphabetical order (Please note that some are part of the “university short films (Uni)” section):

Are you volleyball? by Mohammad Bakhshi (IRAN)

Blue sky, clean Earth  by Mahyar Mandegar (IRAN)

Dispersion by Basile Vuillemin (SWITZERLAND)

Essere umani by L. Papini-I. Martini-D. Nastri-S. Grondona (ITALY Uni)

Faith by Tatiana Fedorovskaya (RUSSIA)

Fino alla fine by Giovanni Dota (ITALY)

Gloria eterna by Yimit Ramírez (CUBA)

Gros chagrin by Céline Devaux (FRANCE)

Il bacio by Adriano Candiago (ITALY)

Il nostro concerto by Francesco Piras (ITALY)

In zona Cesarini by Simona Cocozza (ITALY Uni)

Kein problem by Magnus Millang (DENMARK)

La giornata by Pippo Mezzapesa (ITALY)

Mai dare un fucile a un’oca by Filippo Sorvillo & Melissa Martelli (ITALY)

The Silent Child by Chris Overton (UK)

Olive à la coque by Tommaso Beneforti & Luca Bertelli (ITALY Uni)

Parru pi tia by Giuseppe Carleo (ITALY)

Pipinara by Ludovico Di Martino (ITALY)

Prodigium A. Cracolici-I. Casiraghi-L. Menconi-G. Bertotto (ITALY Uni)

Skin by Guy Nattiv (USA)

Sotto scacco by Andrea Stocchi (ITALY Uni)

U Muschittieri by Vito Palumbo (ITALY)

Your last day on earth by Marc Martίnez (SPAIN)

Zapatos de tacòn cubano by Julio Mas Alcaraz (SPAIN)