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The First Times

16 min. | Documentary, Short | Pegi 13

Emilia and Caterina write letters to each other revisiting their adolescent memories and earliest experiences at a boarding school in the 1950s. Did they choose the lives they truly wanted, or only those that they dared to imagine?
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Giulia Cosentino

Giulia Cosentino

Giulia Cosentino is a film director, screenwriter and researcher, born in Sicily. In 2019 she directed her first short movie “He and I”, and in 2020 her second one “Why are you running away?”. In 2022 she won the Italian prize Premio Solinas for the best script for feature film. Currently she teaches directing in archival re-use in Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Sede Sicilia.
Perla Sardella

Perla Sardella

Perla Sardella is editor and documentarist. She graduated in Cinema and Multimedia Arts at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, in Milan. She works with still and moving images, and with different formats including linear audiovisual, photography and video installations. She is co-founder of the association for the appreciation of the family film heritage “Reframing Home Movies”. She lives and works in Genoa.
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Original title
Le prime volte
Produced
2025: Italy, Spain

Film information

Director
Giulia Cosentino, Perla Sardella
Producers
Ainhoa Andraka, Zuri Goikoetxea, Margot Mecca, Matteo Tortone
Screenplay
Giulia Cosentino, Perla Sardella
Cinematography
Giulia Cosentino, Luciana Castellina, Perla Sardella
More information
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