Onirico (2024)★ 10.0/10

IT · 10 min · May 22, 2024

• Drama
• Short

Directed by: Niccolò Patrono

Written by: Niccolò Patrono

Oursoin, Fel and Kira are young directors. They decide to retreat to an island to write three screenplays. The sea is rough and the ferry wobbles. A strong wind comes between Oursoin and his cigarette, just as the confusion in his head is preventing him from developing an idea for his film. Once they reach their destination, the three directors immediately get to work. Lulled by the sound of the rain, Kira and Fel fall into a deep and unexpected sleep. The blockade of Oursoin remains, like the pounding of the rain. Discouraged by his blank sheet of paper, he can't resist the temptation to snoop through his classmates' notes. But he too is struck by a sudden sleep. Slowly the sound of the rain fades away. Oursoin wakes up, it seems like spring. The rain is no longer there and with it Kira and Fel have also disappeared. The director sees a silhouette in the distance. It's Kira. Oursoin believes his friend is not working on his film. But Kira is doing it by drawing, she believes that writing filters ideas incorrectly and that drawing is a more effective medium. Oursoin asks where Fel is. Kira directs him towards the horizon. When he arrives at the beach he finds Fel. Here Oursoin is put to the test of whether he understood his duty as a director. Slowly, as the bubbles of a breath exhaled in the recent past rise to the surface, the answer begins to clear up among Oursoin's tangled ideas: "The first duty of a director is to give importance to the soul of the spectator". Oursoin was actually put on trial, the sentence of which is now announced by Fel: the accused is perfectly capable of writing his film. Confused, the director turns his gaze to the increasingly dark sky. When he wakes up it is night and still raining. He lights a candle and runs to get two blankets to wrap Fel and Kira in, who continue to sleep peacefully. Finally he takes pen and paper and starts writing.