Produced by Aranciafilm with Rai Cinema in partnership with Fondazione Fare Cinema and  screenplayed as a special event to close the 35th International Film Critics' Week in the SIC@SIC -­‐ Italian Short Cinema section. The short film was made at the end of Giorgio Diritti's screenwriting and directing course "Dall'idea al set” held for Marco Bellocchio’s Fondazione Fare Cinema foundation in Bobbio. This short film was created through a workgroup, at the same time in a personal and introspective manner, with the attendees of the course, on the topic of parent-child relationships.

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ELENA ARVIGO

GRETA BUTTAFAVA

SARA DHO

DIRECTOR'S NOTES

"During the course in Bobbio, we tried to stimulate the participants to talk about their personal experiences, to feel what their 'urgent needs' were. This led to the creation of some subjects which expressed the difficulties, the emotional trauma and suffering of marital separation from the children's point of view.

This is where the idea to make Zombie came from, because it distils the contradictions of a festival which is very exciting for children (Halloween) with the conflictual distortions and loneliness of parents who, in their inability to distinguish their roles, all turn somewhat into the 'living dead'. If this split, rather than possible separation, turns into a destructive break-up, the children become unknowing, and in some cases instrumental, victims of these conflicts, risking parental alienation.

It is a reflection on these childhood traumas which will remain over time and which the children certainly do not deserve."

Giorgio Diritti