ARCA

DIRECTED BY LORENZO QUAGLIOZZI

DRAMA | SCI-FI

Italy

20′

2025

SYNOPSIS
At the height of the Cold War, facing the threat of nuclear annihilation, a group of Hollywood filmmakers—haunted by the horrors of World War II—bands together in a secret programme known as ARCA. A hundred years later, their legacy is our last hope.
DIRECTED BY LORENZO QUAGLIOZZI PRODUCED BY ANDREA SBARBARO LORENZO QUAGLIOZZI RICCARDO COPRENI WRITTEN BY LORENZO QUAGLIOZZI WITH SERENA ZINI ANDREA DANTE BENAZZO FRANCESCA OSSO DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY LORENZO QUAGLIOZZI EDITOR LORENZO QUAGLIOZZI SET DESIGNER LORENZO QUAGLIOZZI MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN NICO PALERMO VFX ARTIST LORENZO QUAGLIOZZI GRAPHIC LORENZO QUAGLIOZZI MAKE UP & HAIR MARIATERESA RUTIGLIANO

AWARDS AND SELECTIONS

40. Settimana Internazionale della Critica
WORLD PREMIERE
2025
7. Castrovillari Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION
2025
16. La Roche-sur-Yon IFF
OFFICIAL SELECTION
2025
26. Les Utopiales
OFFICIAL SELECTION
2025
31. Visioni Italiane
OFFICIAL SELECTION
2025
3. Noam Faenza Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION
2025
17. Versi di luce
OFFICIAL SELECTION
2025
7. Longtake Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION
2025
14. Mostra de Cinema Italià de Barcelona
OFFICIAL SELECTION
2025
11. Florence Short Film Fest
OFFICIAL SELECTION
2026

LORENZO QUAGLIOZZI

BIO

 

Lorenzo Quagliozzi (Rome, 1999) is a self-taught director. After graduating from high school, he interned on the sets of Paolo Sorrentino’s The New Pope and Marco Bellocchio’s Exterior Night. From 2018 to 2019, he curated the video documentation for the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome and collaborated on archive research for Giuseppe Tornatore’s documentary Ennio. Following Illusione (2020) and Il mio cuore è vuoto come uno specchio – Episodio di Odessa (2022), he won the Nastro d’Argento for Best Short Film in 2024 with De l’amour perdu. ARCA is his fifth short film.
2025
ARCA (SCI-FI, 20', IT)
2023
DE L'AMOUR PERDU (Drama, 17', IT)
2022
IL MIO CUORE È VUOTO COME UNO SPECCHIO (Doc, 28', IT & UA)
2020
ILLUSIONE (Drama, 15', IT)