~ schiuma di mondi

Island of S. Erasmo, Venice. Antonia (40) is a lawyer navigating joys and difficulties of single motherhood. Discouraged by an increasingly precarious freelance career, she spends her mornings searching for alternatives. Her daughter Lena (8) attends a mixed-age class at a primary school at risk of imminent closure. These isolated circumstances drive the little girl to roam the island and come into contact with other forms of animal life inhabiting that space between land and sea. As the water rises and the citizens of Venice begin to face up to their future, Antonia starts to reinvent the sense of her legal practice.

“Each of us may wish to contribute to this world in own ways, in the most disparate fields. In this film, we dive into the machinery of rights and laws, regarded as tools that can be used for life's sake. Driven by her restlessness, Antonia is compelled to reinvent the role of jurisprudence and to transform the prescriptive nature of law into a journey of intersubjective awareness. Antonia’s character enlights a floater of reflections connected to the relationship between our sense of impotence and the climate change; between the time of care and the time of work; between our isolation and the fragile democratic bonds, in an age of uncertainties and tensions. Whilst Antonia tries to rationalize the outcomes of modernization, her daughter Lena melts and resonates with everything that is around her. Both of them try to counter the sense of isolation embodied by the streets and the canals of Sant’Erasmo with their complicity and with a sense of participation capable of dispelling the fog around them”. A.M.

This film has been made thanks to the Kultur Ensemble Palermo (Goethe Institut Palermo & Institut Français Palermo) and the Harun Farocki Institut Berlin in the frame of the Harun Farocki residency Terms and Conditions 2024.

The project received the main award IN/EMERGENZA at BELLARIA Film Festival 2025.

The film took part in TFL Writing Extended Veneto 2022.

https://www.bellariafilmfestival.org/film-archive/schiuma-di-mondi/
 
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCEXnR9AIT0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

https://www.harun-farocki-institut.org/en/2024/09/17/15831/

conferenza “diritto di (r)esistere” con natascia tosel e clio nicastro, veronetta giugno 2025 https://vimeo.com/1096539263?share=copy

Il film accompagna una madre e una figlia nella loro quotidianità sull’isola di S. Erasmo, Venezia. Antonia (40) è un’avvocata che avanza tra le gioie e le difficoltà di una maternità portata avanti in solitaria. Scoraggiata da una libera professione sempre più incerta, trascorre le mattine cercando annunci di lavoro e scorgendo nella giustizia climatica un nuovo possibile orizzonte della sua pratica giuridica. La figlia Lena (8) frequenta la pluriclasse della scuola elementare che conta in tutto sette bambini ed è a rischio di chiusura imminente; le circostanze solitarie spingono la bimba a vagabondare per l’isola e ad entrare in contatto con altre forme di vita animale che abitano alla loro stessa stregua tra la terra e il mare. E mentre l’acqua sale, entrambe hanno ancora molto da fare…

Schiuma di mondi
(Foam of worlds)
80 min.
2026

Idea, direction, editing, production:
Anna Marziano

Camera:
Armin Dierolf, Anna Marziano

Music: 
Rafael Toral

Co-prod:
Zsuzsanna Kiràly, Flaneur Films 

Associated prod. and World Sales:
Manuela Buono, Slingshot Films 

Sound editing: 
Christian Obermaier

Sound mix:
Jochen Jezussek, Poleposition 

Color Grading:
Ivan Tozzi, Cinecittà Lab 

Design:
Nadia Pillon