Screenings
September 04 21:00
DEBATOUN GUESTHOUSE
Lumi
Italy, 2025, 60’
in Italian w/ Arm․/Eng․ subtitles
Director and Scriptwriter: Filippo Tolentino
Cinematographer: Filippo Tolentino
Producer: Filippo Tolentino
Editor: Filippo Tolentino
Sound: Francesco Piro
Lumi is an Italian word that indicates the outer lights as well as inner light. The movie investigates the body, head, and heart of Marcello, a young man mesmerized by light in many of its forms, a person with unique desires and ambitions, who lives with a mental disability. Despite many obstacles and failures, Marcello is putting all his effort in order to fulfill his dream: to create a workshop where he can build, along with his disabled friends, Italian traditional lighting systems called “luminarie”. Made mainly of ordinary moments, work in the countryside, passion and obsession for religious festivals, the story of Marcello is an opportunity to go deeper into existential questions from a spiritual point of view. His material and symbolic journey towards light is the journey of all of us, where the external differences turn out to be only an illusion in front of that same shining source where we all come from.
Filippo Tolentino
Filippo Tolentino is an Italian director and cinematographer, born in the south of Italy. He has made several short films, while Lumi (2025) is his feature-length debut.
Filmography
Lumi (2025).