MATÈL

DIRECTED BY ANDREA NEGRONI

Drama

Italy

17′

2024

SYNOPSYS
Fabio, living the eighteen years-old monotony, shares a home with his mother, a woman left alone after the illusion of a normal life. The young boy works as helper on the shores of a little lake in the Alps, at the boat rental pier. Time goes by and, in front oh his eyes, people’s lives pass through on the riverbank. Boredom, protagonist of the long summer afternoons, is broken by three boys wanting to sail on the lake.
WRITTEN DIRECTED AND PRODUCED BY ANDREA NEGRONI EXECUTIVE PRODUCER LORETTA TABARINI RAMONA PROJETTI X PROMAZIONI360 PRODUCTION MANAGER LORENZO MARIA CHIERICI CINEMATOGRAPHER MARCO DE PASQUALE WITH JACOPO CASALINO AGLAIA MORA GABRIELE CAREDDU ANDREA ZANI MATTIA GUARINONI AND MELE EDITORS ALESSANDRO BELOTTI AND LORENZO COLUGNATI MUSIC GINEVRA NERVI COSTUME DESIGN LUDOVICA MERLINO SET DESIGNER NICOLA NEGRONI MAKE UP ANDREIA GOSIO HAIR DANIELA GOSIO SOUND DESIGN & MIX MATTEO DI SIMONE AND ENRICO MEREU

AWARDS AND SELECTIONS

39. BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
WORLD PREMIERE
2025
7. Amicorti IFF
Official Selection
2025
14. Rio LGBTQIA+
Official Selection
2025
11. Castiglioni Film Festival
Official Selection
2025
9. Bolton International Film Festival
Official Selection
2025 - BAFTA ® QUALIFYING 2025
2. Hvar Film Festival
Official Selection
2025
2. 35 mm Film Festival
Official Selection
2025
20. Shorts Mexico
Official Selection
2025
10. Queer Film Festival Munich
Official Selection
2025
24. Pink Panorama Festival
Official Selection
2025
30. Cheries Cheries
Official Selection
2025
7. Longtake Film Festival
Official Selection
2025
16. Macau International Short Film Festival
Official Selection
2025
1. Gueules d'amours
Official Selection
2026

ANDREA NEGRONI

BIO

 

Born and raised in Cremona in 1995, Andrea Negroni is an italian film writer and director, whose voice finds its higher expression in realism, in simple acts of everyday life. He mastered in Modern Literature and he trained as a photographer in Palermo during a year of social and anthropological research in the popular districts of the city. The encounters that occurred in this time are fundamental for his creative growth, shaping and strengthening his vision of the world, helping to define his visual language.
2024
MATÈL (Drama, 20', IT)