38th edition
17-25 january 2026

Pastime

Passatempo

Francesco Lagi

Image Pastime
Italy
2004 Fiction 16 min
Two friends meet again. One of them wants to change his life and decides to slow down. Everything around him starts to change, and he begins to discover a different tempo, a new way of living.
With : Leonardo Maddalena, Alessandro Roja, Federica Flavoni Production
Screenplay : Marianna Cappi, Roan Johnson, Francesco Lagi
Image : Simona Di Giorgio
Sound : Giuseppe D'Amato, Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri
Music : Alessandro Linzitto, Giuseppe D'Amato
Editing : Danilo Torre
Production : SNC
Francesco Lagi was born in Florence in 1977. He studied directing at the Scuola Nazionale di Cinema in Rome. He has made several short films that have won awards at national and international festivals alike: Smack! (1998), Il mio regno per un sollazzo (1998), Dialogo di un filosofo e di un uomo grasso (1999), Severo (2000). Passatempo, his gradation film, was selected in the short film category at the 2004 Venice Film Festival