RANDO

DIRECTED BY EDOARDO ULIVELLI

DRAMA | ANIMATION

Italy

13′

2025
SYNOPSIS
On the way to his grandma’s house, a young boy retreats into his favorite cartoon. His mother, exhausted and on edge, tries to pull him back to reality, but the fear of what awaits them keeps them apart. In a household weighed down by unspoken tensions and stifling presences, the boy withdraws further into himself, while the adults around him move with no apparent tenderness. The only escape seems to lie in postponing, for as long as possible, the confrontation with a pain no one dares to name.
DIRECTED BY Edoardo Ulivelli PRODUCED BY Edoardo Ulivelli Marco Onofri WRITTEN BY Edoardo Ulivelli WITH Marco Valerio Bartocci Valeria Bilello Giusi Merli Giovanni Izzo Rita Iacone DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Camilla Cattabriga EDITOR Andrea Sbarbaro SET DESIGNER Francesco Bacci COSTUME DESIGNER Giulia Di Renzo MUSIC Filippo Landi VFX ARTIST GRAPHIC Greta Traldi MAKE UP & HAIR Serena Sbrana TITLE

AWARDS AND SELECTIONS

27. Izmir Kisa Film Festivali
WORLD PREMIERE
2025 - OSCAR ® QUALIFYING 2025

EDOARDO ULIVELLI
BIO

 

Edoardo Ulivelli (Florence, 1994) is a writer-director whose work explores emotional fractures rooted in incommunicability. He began making short films at an early age, alongside theatre work, and received international recognition for his photography. After graduating from DAMS in Bologna, he earned a Master’s in Filmmaking from the London Film School. His graduation short, Lo Sguardo, a film that delves into desire and fragile masculinity through a blend of drama and the grotesque, was selected at BAFTA and Oscar-qualifying festivals such as Aesthetica and In The Palace, and featured on Directors Notes. Back in Italy, he collaborated with Eclettica and T-Rex to create Rando, a hybrid short combining anime and live action, exploring the fear of loss through the eyes of a child.
2025
RANDO (DRAMA | ANIMATION, 13', IT)
2022
LO SGUARDO (Comedy, 25', IT)