CHIAMARE CASA SEMPRE LO STESSO POSTO

HER (13), gives the first clumsy tongue kiss to HIM (17), who she really likes. A group of HIM’s and HER friends attend goliardically. Gio, HIM’s best friend, teases HIM. In the evening they all hang out in the town park, HER sees HIM hugging another girl. Gio tells HER that happened because HIM said that HER is a lousy kisser. Gio wants to check if it’s true. In front of everyone, he pushes her to kiss. Gio bursts out laughing. Yes, she does kiss like crap.

Gio is one of the five guys crammed into a stolen car. They are going to the next town to party. Suddenly… CRASH.

The boys are lying near the overturned car, alive but seriously injured. Gio is the only one who doesn’t look injured.
A passing car stops and a small family try to figure out if the boys are alive—all except Gio, who they don’t seem to see. They walk past him, as if he is not there, as if he were a ghost.
He is. Dead.

Time later, HER is on the bus, when suddenly, someone sits next to her.

It’s Gio. There is a huge awkwardness between the two. HER tries to ignore him at first. A mixture of wanting to run away from it, and straining to hold the position to prove that one is different that one is grown up.
He tries hard to make contact with her, but he cannot. And HER cannot forgive him.

written and directed by
Giada Bossi

director of photography
Francesca Pavoni

produced by
Withstand Film
Agile Films
Giada Bossi

starring
Alessia Boccagni
Denise Boccagni
Stefano De Vivo
Tommaso Minnì

executive producer Withstand
Davide Ferazza
Lorenzo Damiani

executive producer Agile
Myles Payne
David Staniland
Sophia Gibber

producer
Victoria Rabbogliatti

producer Withstand
Martina Dalpiaz

1st AD
Matteo Polo, Tommaso Landucci
2nd AD / DA
Chiara Canale

choreographer
Macia Del Prete

wardrobe
Aurora Zaltieri
assistant stylist
Roberta Vacca

production design
Ailen Ronchetti

light design
Bianca Peruzzi

casting
Simone Mariani Casting Up, Giada Bossi, Simone Andina

actor coach
Fabio Marchisio

full cast
Stefano De Vivo
Denise Boccagni
Alessia Boccagni
Tommaso Minnì
Mario Dama
Federico Tanchis
Jacopo Speroni
Linda Colucci
Alice Serra
Crystal Dell’Aira
Matilda Petrolo
Mirko Donadio
Rei Curia
Romano Maran
Simona Ghisalberti
Ilenia Grossule
Luca Cialè
Simone Andina
Araya Martin
Alice Ferrari
Luca Speroni
Sharon Gioya
Marta Caporaletti
Luca Tilgher
Joshua Bossi
Giovanni Crotti
Arssalendo
Dafne Dell’Aira
Demiù Dell’Aira

camera and steadicam operator
Mirco Passero
1st AC
Jonas Ongaro
2nd AC
Valentina Chiarello
VTR
Nina Gorlanova
DIT
Federico Guffanti

gaffer
Giovanni Sacchi
best boys
Gaetano Gagliardi, Egidio Prudenzano
key grip
Tommaso Mogno
grip
Fabio Macchi

sound recording
Matteo Pansana

production supervisor
David Alazraki
runners
Simone Vasco
Davide Mizrahi
Pietro Ciron
Marco De Lorenzo

stunt supervisor
Simone Belli
stunt coordinator
Giovanni Cesaroni
stunt utility
Giovanni Cadoni
Emanuele Centurione
Francesco Di Mascolo
Miguel Peña

rental
Moviechrome

transports
Rted
Van4life

catering
La vecchia cunardo, Ristorante Italia, Ristorante Degli Sportivi, Giona Beach

lifeguard
Antonio Magnifico

editing
Filippo Patelli, Giada Bossi

sound design
ARSSALENDO

mix
Mark Ceiling

VFX
AGILE Studio
VFX Lead
David H
VFX Artists
James Sayer
Kevin Marien
post producer
Ben Carey

motion graphic animator
Gaia Pedretti

color correction
a collaboration between
Orash Rahnema and Daniel Pallucca
color assistant
Leonardo Mareso

graphics
Giulia Boggio

photographer
Davide Padovan

festival Distribution
Alessandro Giorgio

We deeply thanks

MOVIECHROME Edoardo Mari, Matteo Pirovano
Comune di Luino, Polizia Locale di Luino, Comandante Elvira Ippoliti.
Comune di Germignaga, Marisa Lenardon, Proloco di Germignaga, Roberto Ballardin, Giada Cerinotti.
Comune di Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca, Polizia Locale di Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca, Dr. Casali, Museo Parisi Valle.
Autolinee Varesine, Giovanni Crotti, Fabrizio Laudi, Ambrogio Guali.
Autodemolizioni Corda
Joshua Bossi
Graziano Franchetti
Gioele Bossi
Andrea Mascheroni
Ragazzi nei Paraggi
Marco Bossi, Stefania Chiodini, Famiglia Ronchetti Lorena Bossi, Monica Mazzoleni Moroni, Borgo Teatrale, Tobia Rossi, Massimo de Angelis, Viola Folador, Chris Zimmermann, Mario Dama, Associazione Culturale della Compagnia Duse di Besozzo and all the people who kindly helped us with any tiny detail of this project.

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Written by Alessandro Catalano
Produced by Arssalendo

“Diventa grande poi passa”
Written by Alessandro Catalano
Produced by Arssalendo

“1Respiro”
Written by Alessandro Catalano, Riccardo Montanari
Produced by Arssalendo

“Corpo mondo”
Written by Alessandro Catalano
Produced by Arssalendo

© ℗ 2024 ARSSALENDO under exclusive license Peermusic Italy
© ℗ 2025 ARSSALENDO under exclusive license Artist First

No animals were harmed, killed or injured for the realisation of this film.

The most painful part of growing up is discovering how vulnerable caring for someone can make us.
In our teenage, we discover our drives and loves and how fragile they make us. Not knowing what the other person is thinking creates abysses of insecurity and unacceptable weakness.
It is the age of the first intimate wounds, in a deep emotional illiteracy.
As a guy, you think the only way is to hide in your virile masculinity to show superiority over the feminine world that makes them so fragile. As a girl, the weight of young men’s judgment is enormous. And in a small suburban reality, the worst thing that can happen to you is to be stigmatized forever.

As a writer and director from these isolated areas of northern Italy, I witnessed these dynamics in first person, the first chapter “happened” to me when I was 12, and yet, I see these dynamics happening again daily in the new generations.
This project will be shot in the areas of the origin of this story, with actors and local non-actors of that age, hoping that working around these themes will give the younger generations a better way of understanding relationships.