THE FIRST TIMES

2025 Italy/Spain 16 Documentary, Drama 13+
Trailer Film

THE FIRST TIMES

THE FIRST TIMES

women, friendship, memories, society

Emilia and Caterina write letters to each other revisiting their adolescent memories and earliest experiences at a boarding school in the 1950s. Did they choose the lives they truly wanted, or only those that they dared to imagine?


Director
Giulia Cosentino and Perla Sardella

Giulia Cosentino is a film director, screenwriter and researcher, born in Catania, Sicily (Italy). She graduated in cinema and visual art attending Roma Tre University, Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, Nova in Lisbon and Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. She has collaborated in many movies among Martin Eden by Pietro Marcello, Io capitano by Matteo Garrone and Grand Tour by Miguel Gomes. In 2019 she directed her first short movie He and I (premiered at Torino Film Festival), and in 2020 her second one Why are you running away?, that is part of a collective film Le storie che saremo produced by Ginko Film. In 2022 she won the Italian prize Premio Solinas for the best script for feature film. Currently, she is based between Rome and Palermo, where she teaches directing in archiver re-use in Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Sede Sicilia and works as screenwriter and director. ​Perla Sardella is editor and documentarist, born in Jesi in 1991 (Italy). She graduated in Cinema and Multimedia Arts at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, in Milan. She works with still and moving images, and with different formats including linear audiovisual, photography and video installations. Comfort Zone (2015), her first short...

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LOCATION TAMAN ISMAIL MARZUKI
STUDIO TEATER SJUMAN DJAYA
DATE 25/10/2025
TIME 13.00 WIB