The short film Due piedi sinistri by Isabella Salvetti has won the “Best Individual Story in a City” award at the Small World Film Festival 2017, which was held in recent weeks in Bradford, the first city in the world to have been granted the title of UNESCO Creative City of Film.
The film, which in Italy had already triumphed at the Globo d’Oro, winning nominations for the David di Donatello and the Nastri d’Argento awards as well, was presented at the Festival of the City of Rome, one of the eight cities in the UNESCO film network, along with the short film Sotto casa by Alessio Lauria: both films were selected by the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, the enacting body of the UNESCO Rome City of Film project, and participated in Shortsleague, the short film championship organized by the Fondazione, in collaboration with Roma Creative Contest, as part of the Cinema al MAXXI film series.
With a lineup of about fifty films, the Bradford Small World Film Festival celebrated the network of UNESCO Creative Cities this year, proposing to explore the theme “My City”: the individual members were invited to select works that used film narration to describe their cities, with the episodes, stories and cultures that populate them every day.
Due piedi sinistri by Isabella Salvetti will also be screened and receive an award at the Annual Meeting of the UNESCO Creative Cities to be held at Enghien-Les-Bains on July 1st this year.

DUE PIEDI SINISTRI

by Isabella Salvetti, Italy, 2015, 6′

With Maria Elena Schiolin (Luana), Gabriele Sgrignuoli (Mirko)
In a working-class neighborhood in Rome, Mirko plays football with his friends. He meets Luana, who is sitting near him. The two twelve year olds hit it off from the start, but an unpleasant surprise catches Mirko off guard. Whereas Luana smiles happily, for the first time in her life.