The Bridge

A trip to replace a dental bridge opens a bridge to the past.

Gregorio sets off in a minibus transporting people from Italy to Slovenia in search of affordable dental care. The journey is part of an organised trip, a comprehensive package that includes accommodation, dental treatments, and guided tours. Gregorio follows the programme alongside the group of dental tourists, participating in the schedule activities-until he decides to break away from the group. There is a place that he must visit on his own. For Gregorio, crossing the border into Slovenia also means crossing a border into his own past.

Giacomo Bendotti is a screenwriter for film, television and comics, born in Rome in 1984.
His most recent work as a screenwriter is Another End (directed by Piero Messina), which was presented in competition at the 2024
Berlin Festival. He also wrote The Wait (L’attesa), directed by the same filmmaker and presented in competition at the 2015 Venice
Film Festival. For television, he created and wrote Chiamami ancora amore (Rai – 2021) and contributed to the second season of The bad Guy (Prime Video – 2024). In the field of comics, he is the author and illustrator of the graphic novels Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, published by Becco Giallo Editore.
Il Ponte (The Bridge) marks his debut as director

Festival du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand_International Competition
Alice nella città
INCinema_  Special Mention

Written and directed by: Giacomo Bendotti

Produced by: Raffaella Pontarelli Amarena Film

With: Giorgio Colangeli, Maja Sever

Dop: Gianluca Rocco Palma

Editing: Paola Freddi, Francesco De Matteis

Original Score: Bruno Falanga

Sound supervisor: Alessandro Bianchi

Costume Design: Valentina Bertossi

Set Design: Daniele Braida