Italy, 2025, 20 min., Italian with English and Bulgarian subtitles, dir. Antonietta Elia
“Comizi d’odio” is an essay film, a stream of consciousness composed of images, voices, and silences. Through a sensory drift, it probes the anatomy of antagonism and the emotional architecture of hatred—not to condemn, but to understand its potential: is conflict merely divisive, or can it carry the seed of awakening? In the dark, we listen. Memory, rupture, and contradiction surface like fragments. Until, at the end of the spiral, a return: children, a park, the echo of a beginning.
Screenwriter: Giuseppe Lanteri, Antonietta Elia
DOP: Pietro Brunelleschi
Music: Maria Carmela Barbagallo
Production: Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti
Director’s Biography:
Antonietta is a filmmaker born in Lecco. At the age of eighteen, she moved to Rome to pursue acting studies, where she began working in the film and television industry. In 2013, she received a scholarship to attend a circus academy, where she trained as a performer and trapeze artist.
She graduated from the Luchino Visconti Civic School in Milan as a documentarian, which allowed her to develop her first medium-length film, Comizi d’odio, re-edited in 2025.