‘Forever With You’ Director Explores Grief Through a Child’s Eyes: ‘Cinema Must Be Emotionally Rooted’

‘Forever With You’ Director Explores Grief Through a Child’s Eyes: ‘Cinema Must Be Emotionally Rooted’ hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Nov 1, 2026 12:24pm PT ‘Forever With You’ Director Explores Grief Through a Child’s Eyes: ‘Cinema Must Be Emotionally Rooted’ By Essie Assibu Plus Icon Essie Assibu Latest Rotterdam and Alexandria Festival Programmers on What Gets a Movie Accepted and Why Rejection Isn’t a Verdict on Quality 2 days ago Emerging Arab Directors Given a Pathway Toward Filmmaking Careers by Expanded Pitching Platform at Sharjah Film Festival 2 days ago Sharjah Film Festival Partners With UAE’s Media Authority in Push to Assist Emerging Filmmakers 6 days ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments Italian filmmaker Fabrizio Cattani brought “Forever With You,” his exploration of childhood, grief and the loss of a parent, to the Middle East for the first time this week, with the film receiving a Green Carpet premiere at the 13th Sharjah Intl. Film Festival for Children and Youth in the UAE.

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With Italy celebrated as this year’s Country of Honor, the festival has put a spotlight on the country’s cinema. For Cattani, “Forever With You” also marks a turn toward younger audiences after previous films centered on more difficult adult subjects.

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“Filo, the protagonist, represents our rational part. Rullo, his friend, is the emotional part.

The father is the mature part, Amelie is the childish part and Guelpho is the scary part,” Cattani tells Variety . “All these parts are inside of us.

I liked using these symbols to deal with such a delicate subject as mourning.” For Cattani, childhood offered a way into that subject precisely because of the innocence with which Filo encounters the world. “He observes the world through the eyes of innocence, which we unfortunately lose when we grow up,” the director explains.

“It allows him to have the strength to explore and understand the importance of small things, the things that have value.” “Childhood is very powerful because that’s where the person starts,” he adds. “Everything develops from what people experience in their childhood, what they receive in their education and what they see.

We are sponges as children. What we absorb, we transmit in the later stages of our lives.” That perspective also places “Forever With You” within a longstanding Italian cinematic tradition of using children to explore larger social and emotional realities.

Cattani points to Vittorio De Sica’s “Bicycle Thieves” as an “absolute masterpiece,” while describing his own film as distinctly Italian in its setting, dialects and other locally rooted elements. Shot in the autumn in Calabria, the “toe” at the end of the Italian peninsula’s boot, the film makes the region’s forests a character in their own right.

Yet Cattani believes the story can travel because its central experience transcends its Italian setting. “It can open up internationally because the loss of a mother is a theme that unites the whole world,” he says.

Cattani had already presented the film at the Locarno Film

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