Giuseppe Varlotta

He was born in Asti, where he has opened a studio dedicated to music, emotion, video, theatre and dance. In 2003 he founded the Cultural Association Kabiria, that produces multimedia shows and films. In 2005 he founded with the director Francesca Del Sette the artistic movement EMOZIONISMO. Its manifesto is that only emotion can give real passions to men. He experimented different Art languages from architecture to theatre, from design to multimedia, from video art to traditional cinema. IN 2004 he directed the short NANÀ and a social commercial about disabled people. He is also the director of music videos for Target Music.

Director’s statement

“I was wondering if it was possible to tell a fairytale set in a war landscape. ZOÈ is the story of a child’s research for her father. The story is set during the German occupation in a Piedmont village. The film will give to the audience the opportunity to travel in a kind of ‘Alice in Horrorland’, to follow a girl who is escaping towards salvation and fighting against inequality between men. Zoè has to learn how to recognize good and evil, ying and yang, inertia, poverty, loneliness and above all a word that the men will never erase from their dictionary: War”.