Starts tomorrow in the pristine location of Capalbio the 22nd edition of the International Short Film Festival. A lot of news. First, the theme of this year: Storyboomers, neologism created ad hoc, With this word Capalbio Cinema – says Artistic Director Thomas Mottola – It gives a name to a generation that is going to overwhelm us with an explosion of stories and formats, and that is changing day by day the concept of the film in direct. Thanks to the spread of shooting and editing systems, millions of kids born digital but also men and women of all ages are taking over the language of cinema and accumulate every day on hard drives billions of movies, images, sounds all in high definition. From here to create and upload the network countless works, the pace is becoming shorter. The festival will be the first to be overwhelmed by stories in live, products until typical of writing today. Capalbio dedicates its 22nd edition this Big Bang of the next film coming. Welcome to the Storyboomers generation! But there is also the novelty of this edition in collaboration with the Sundance Festival, the first Italy | Sundance Institute Screenwriters Workshop, conceived on the model of the prestigious Screenwriter's Lab, founded by Robert Redford, and developed in collaboration with New Cinema Network, Permanent creative hub of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, and Fondazione Sistema Toscana. The workshop will have as advisors Joan Tewkesbury and Erin Cressida Wilson under the supervision of Paul Federbush, Director of the Feature Film Program at the Sundance. The workshop will provide an opportunity to eight screenwriters / independent directors to develop their skills under the guidance of international tutors. The selected projects are Red Dust by Marco Amenta (Italy), A Life Beyond Earth di Elisa Fuksas (Italy), Italo Disco Richard Garcia (Spain), Digger di Georgis Grigorakis (Greece), Twin Flower Laura Luchetti (Italy), 237 Years of Ioana Maria Blends (Romania), Look Up Fulvio Risuleo (Italy) and Pill #1618 di Domante Urmonaitė (Lithuania); the two Storyboomers panel will be taken care of by Federico Pontiggia and Laura Delli Colli. The official selection jury is formed by the writer Maurizio Maggiani, by cinematographer Luca Bigazzi, from director Lamberto Sanfelice, by Michal Leszczylowski editor and journalist Bruno Manfellotto. While the Jury Prize World of Maps is composed by film critic Johnny Palomba, da Matthew Takata, curator at the Sundance Festival and Alix Davonneau, officer audiovisual Embassy of France in Italy. Godmother of Capalbio Cinema 2015 be actress Tatiana Luter, emerging face of Italian Cinema, interpreter Youth Sorrentino, but already seen in Pasolini, Abel Ferrara, the last film directed by Silvio Muccino, The laws of desire. During the days of the festival in various locations (Amphitheater of Holm, Cinema Tirreno, Customs beach, Piazza Magenta) They will be presented sixty international short films, divided into several sections, from International Competition, with a single short in Italian competition, Gas Station, Alessandro Palazzi: Italy view from those who earn a few dollars at a petrol filling station. Among the international premieres, short written, direct, assembled and interpreted by Clara Aranovich, Primrose, unlikely romance between two creatures set near the lake Kenaiin, in Alaska. Space also to some Italian premieres such as Ave Maria, Palestinian / British Basil Khalil: the silence of prayer of the nuns of a convent in the West Bank interrupted by a Jewish settler family who knocks on their door after a car accident. In the experimental section Shortwave, among the interesting innovations of film language will be presented the two short recently winners of the Cannes Film Festival, Lebanese short film animation Waves'98, Ely Dagher, the story of Omar, Beirut between the post-war period in the 90s and the sense of today's decadence and Varicella, the outsider twenty-four Fulvio Risuleo, five finalists in this year at the Silver Short with his previous work, mother Yeast. Then, a short section that answers the question of the main theme of the festival: What we expect from the future of film and storytelling?, in the new section Storyboomers, where we highlight, among others, l’italiano Sexy Shopping, Adam Selo and Antonio Benedetto, It is the story of Miah, Bangladeshi immigrant, who tells his wife the hard life he leads in Italy, then the Israeli short True Colors, that tells the world of Israeli girls who create video tutorials on makeup. Children and teenagers will be featured respectively Kids Junior Section and Junior Teens. Finally space to a section Work Safely, short work safety (Premio Marsh), the Comedy section and one dedicated to Human Rights, with a selection of works that describe the various rights, from that of sex for euthanasia disabled. Among the special events to report the projection of the N-Able feature, the presence of the filmmaker, Eleonora Danco, who, with his debut film won the Ciak d'Oro Bello & Invisible. After her mother's death, on a journey between Terracina and Rome, the protagonist, the longing that dominates, He stops to talk with seniors and teenagers about the meaning of life. Among other events the projection of chlorine, Lamberto Sanfelice, accompanied by a meeting with all the authors and the audience moderated by Laura Delli Colli storyboomers and master classes devoted to the theme of photography at the time of HD lightweight technologies, Luca Bigazzi- award-winning cinematographer. But her encounter Cinema du Reel 2.0 with film critic Federico Pontiggia, in the presence of all the directors of the competition and parallel sections, the workshop participants but also Juries and lots of creative advertising: participate Eleonora Danco and Constance Quatriglio. Closing out the festival will be screened Mud and Glory of Leonardo Tiberi, Valentina Corti and Eugenio Franceschini, published on the occasion of the centenary of the First World War and 90 Light years Historical Archive, which tells the story of millions of young people involved in that tragic event, using as its symbol the one who will be chosen to represent the huge ranks of the anonymous dead: The Unknown Soldier. The film won the Special Silver Ribbons Docufilm and History Award 2015.