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THE MASSACRE

by Cosimo Messeri

synopsis

After years of “director’s block”, discouraged by the failure of several of his film projects to ever see the light of day, a filmmaker (Cosimo Messeri) decides to come to terms with his own recent past. He decides to track down and interview the women he’d met on dating apps during that troubled time in his life. With the help of two friends, he turned this experiment into a film that is part-documentary, part-confessional. His encounters, memories, and often painful confrontations combine to form a portrait of man grappling repeatedly with defeat, missed opportunities, and the need to make sense of it all. In this sort of inventory of what is lost and what can be salvaged, he is surprised by something he didn’t expect to find: the chance and the will to start over.

international title: The Massacre
original title: Il Massacro
country: Italy
year: 2026
genre: docu-fiction
directed by: Cosimo Messeri
film run: 94'
screenplay: Cosimo Messeri
cast: Cosimo Messeri, Ottavia Molinari, Edoardo Scarantino, Sarah Barberis, Manya, Andrea Monteforte, Durga McBroom, Carene Codja, Ellie Haerens
cinematography by: Marco Parolin
film editing: Carlo Maria Manieri
music: Cosimo Messeri
producer: Cosimo Messeri, Andrea Monteforte, Edoardo Scarantino
production: Kaplan

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