THE DELAY – Mattia Napoli (Italy, 2022) 15′

Selected at Festival du Film Court of Villeurbanne 2023

A clap of hands: the palms meet, but the snap comes a few seconds later. Arturo is out of sync, the delay is growing day by day. On the verge of a nervous breakdown, Arturo will have to question the pace of his life.

Director – Mattia Napoli

Mattia Napoli graduated in Cinema at the University of Turin. After some experience in cinema and television, he started working for the Turin-based communication agency 515 Creative shop, directing among others several TV commercials for Fiat and Abarth. He then became a freelancer and divided his time between advertising and independent film projects.
His first feature documentary, Viaggio al Belgio, won the Best Feature Film award at the San Gio Verona Festival in 2017. In 2018, he directed his first short film entitled Camshot, with which he participated and won awards in several international festivals, including Best Actor at the Global Film Festival in 2018.