What if goodbye came with an expiration date and a bureaucrat timing your grief?
Thanks to a new technology, a state center makes it possible to interact with a deceased person. Diego oversees the encounters betwen the dead and the living.
Direction
Folin builds an entire world in seventeen suffocating minutes.
Production
State center's sterile design screams institutional indifference.
Director
Nicolò Folin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Folin's micro-dystopia joins a growing Italian tradition of genre shorts examining digital grief, influenced by Black Mirror's 'Be Right Back' but with more bureaucratic bite.
The director plays Diego himself—a choice that adds uncomfortable autobiographical weight to scenes where he profits from others' sorrow.
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