Simone Santini

Francesco Foti

Lidia Vitale

Karim Bartoli

Daniele Trombetti

Fabio Melorio

Marta Cipriani

Gabriele Mainetti

Michele D'Attanasio

Giorgina Bravo Fernandez

Simone Manetti

Martina Castagnoli

Christian Gazzi

Matteo Carnesecchi

Mirko Perri

Margherita Meddi

Nicola Guaglianone

Ikki Kajiwara

Paola Dragone

Matteo Albano

Flavia Giordani

Alice Vicario

Francesca Gasperini

Antonella Margheriti

Federico Martucci

Giuseppe Maio

Francesco Scazzosi

Danilo Galante

Luca Pagliara

Marcello Belli

Fabio Rovoletto

Paolo Segat

Mauro Rossi

Federico Conforti

Cadu Miceli

Stefano Maria Mioni

Alessandro Boccino

Manuel Rinaldi

Giorgio Bruno

Valeria Petito

Marco Giarracca

Drama

Tiger Boy

Goon Films

Italy

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Nine year old "Matteo" (Simone Santini) is driving his mother (Lidia Vitale) bonkers. He has become obsessed with a wrestler called "The Tiger" and has made himself a facemask which he steadfastly refuses to take off. Even his school principal (Francesco Foti) can't persuade him to take it off - and it quickly appears to us that this is a man who can be quite "persuasive". When "Matteo" watches his hero win his latest fight against a far larger opponent - think David and Goliath in lycra, that victory seems to empower him and we begin to see that the mask isn't just a childish fad - but instead it has an altogether more significant purpose. We do get some clues as to the more sinister plot of this drama, and I thought Santini handled that really quite strongly. By the very nature of the unfolding scenario, he hasn't a lot of dialogue but that makes his situation and his solution all the more potent to observe. This isn't an easy film to watch, but it's quite a thought-provoking twenty minutes that has something of an eye-for-an-eye to it that it's hard to rebuke.

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Tiger Boy | A short film with Simone Santini and Lidia Vitale by Gabriele Maineti

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