DREAM NOW REVOLUTION TOMORROW (Italy, 2024, 9′)

Friday October 3rd, at 3 p.m., Cinema Massimo, Screen 3

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International title: Dream Now Revolution Tomorrow
Original title: Dream Now Revolution Tomorrow
Director, screenplay: Francesco Manzato
Photography: Davide Vacca
Editing: Francesco Manzato, Massimo Da Re
Sound: Niccolò Valle
Starring: Camilla Koller, Maria Caggianelli Villani
Production: Locarno Film Festival, CISA

Five minutes: this is the allowed amount of time to clean a luxury hotel room without being scolded. However, an escape creeps in among the mechanical and alienated movements of a maid. Colors fade, sounds sweeten, the possibility to overturn class differences seems a dream at hand. But even dreams only last five minutes in this world.
A punk angel appears to the luxury hotel maid, and for a moment a little revolution looks possible. But how long can a dream last?

Francesco Manzato (Italy, 1996), graduated in Modern Literature at University of Milan, has been co-directing two documentaries since 2020, characterized by a heavy political and militant connotation: Uragano negli occhi , on the hardcore punk scene, and Brucia ancora dentro , on the antifascist movement in Milan. In 2024 he participated in the Locarno Spring Academy, in which he made the short film Dream Now Revolution Tomorrow , made under Alice Diop’s supervision and screened during the 77 th Edition of Locarno Film Festival. He won Best Director for Nero Argento at the 39 th Edition of Settimana Internazionale della Critica at Venice Film Festival, while in 2025 he was selected among other 201 talents from all over the world to take part in Berlinale Talents 2025.

Filmography: Uragano negli occhi. Uno sguardo sulla Milano hardcore punk (mlf, doc, 2021), Carle’ (  sf, 2021), Letizia (sf, 2022), Brucia ancora dentro – Vent’anni dalla Notte Nera di Milano, con Dax nel cuore (doc, 2023), Nero Argento (sf, 2024), Dream Now Revolution Tomorrow (sf, 2024), A Missed Call (sf, 2024).