Eldorado

country, year

Italy, Belgium, 2023

genre

drama

running time

19′

directed by

Mathieu Volpe

languages

Beti (dialect from Cameroon), Italian, French

subtitles 

Slovene subtitles

about the film

Originally from Cameroon, Awa works as a snow groomer operator in La Thuile, the last Italian town before France. One night, at the end of her shift, she encounters a young migrant desperately trying to cross the border. Assisting him might be Awa’s only way to silence a constant and haunting sense of guilt.

about the author

Mathieu Volpe (born in Rome, 1990), raised by a Belgian mother and an Italian father in Bari, moved to Belgium in 2009 to study filmmaking. His short films have been showcased at international film festivals such as Locarno, Turin, Dok Leipzig, and Fipadoc. “An Italian Youth,” his debut documentary, was filmed in Italy and Burkina Faso and premiered at the Festival dei Popoli in 2022. At the same time, he is working on “Red Gold,” his first fictional feature, produced by the Dardenne brothers. “Eldorado” marks his first foray into fiction shorts.

festivals and awards

-Alice nella città (Italy)

-Passaggi d’Autore (Italy)

-International Short Film Week Regensburg (Germany) 

filmography

-Eldorado (2023)

-An Italian Youth (2022

– Our territory (2019)

– Il segreto del serpente (2014)