38th edition
17-25 january 2026

17 anni

Filippo Demarchi

Image 17 anni
Switzerland
2014 Fiction 22 min
Matteo, 17, finds himself falling in love with Don Massimo, the young village priest who conducts the brass band in which he plays trumpet. Matteo sees in him a person willing to listen to his fears and his desires. For the first time in his life, Matteo thinks he might be ready to open his heart to somebody...
With : Fabio Foiada, Ignazio Oliva
Screenplay : Filippo Demarchi
Image : Patrick Tresch
Editing : Pierre Deschamps
Sound : David Puntener, Alexandre Frager, Paul Jousselin
Production : ECAL
FilippoDemarchi was born in Zurich in 1988, but grew up in the Canton Ticino. At the age of 18 he moved to Paris to train as an assistant director at the Conservatoire Libre du CinémaFrançais. In 2013 he gained a BA with first class honours in film at ECAL in Lausanne. He is currently taking a Master's in screenwriting at INSAS in Brussels.