Film Programme

The Tournament
fiction , Fri, 20:00
Italy, 2008, 15 min
Director: Michele Alhaique
Synopsis:

 An outcast teenager soccer team can only sign up for a tournament if it raises enough money for the team’s uniforms. Unfortunately Mario uses the collected money to buy drugs. Andrei steals soccer uniforms by breaking into a stadium, where Mario attacks him. The police catch Andrei and his two friends while Mario runs away.

 

Director: Michele Alhaique

Born in 1979 in Rome, Italy. At the age of sixteen he joined a theatre course at school. After this experience he got the part of the leading actor in several plays, directed by G. Argirò (ex. Lisistrata, 1999). In 2003 he graduated as an actor at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. In 2005 he shot and produced his first short film Runaway, which went on to be selected for the Festival Arcipelago 2005 and it took part in the “Nastri d’Argento”, receiving an award for the leading actor Claudio Gioè.