Prima della guerra Before the War
Directed by Tommaso UsbertiFrance, Italy 2026
Runtime 76'
Guido, in his early twenties, lives in a small town in Northern Italy. He has earned the respect of his peers through violence in the racist and macho environment he grew up in. But when he meets Sonia, a Kosovar immigrant, something shifts. Guido finds himself torn between the world that raised him and the one she is opening up for him.
Directed by
Tommaso Usberti
Screenplay
Tommaso Usberti
Cinematography
Mathieu Kauffmann
Editing
Souliman Schelfout, Nathan Jacquard
Production Design
Léa Carbogno
Costumes
Marta Rossi Castelvetro
Sound
Paul Guilloteau
Cast
Piero Usberti, Luàna Bajrami, Massimiliano Balduzzi, Sebastien Halnaut, Cisky Capizzi
Production
Thibault de Gantes, Lucas Le Postec (L’Heure d’été), Francesco Virga, Adele Dell’Erario, Marco Serrecchia (MIR Cinematografica), Beatrice Bordone Bulgari (Eolo Film Productions)
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Tommaso Usberti (1989) is an Italian-French director based in Paris. His short film Deux égarés sont morts won the Cinéfondation Third Prize at Cannes 2017, and in 2019 he was selected for La Résidence de la Cinéfondation. Prima della guerra is his first feature. Raised in Piadena, Italy, he moved to Paris for his studies and now works between Italy and France.
