Film

IO NON MIFERMO

(I WON'T STOP)

a film by FEDERICO TOCCHELLA & ALICE LIA

ITA / 2026 / (30')

“A Roman tragicomedy about loneliness in the age of avatars.”

“A live-action film where animation is not a genre, but a filter of reality.”

Poster for IO NON MI FERMO.

Synopsis

Rome, tomorrow. The government has solved loneliness with an app. Glitchy holograms replace real bodies.

While the city settles for an emotionally low-resolution reality, Fabio, a restless young man, still longs for something real.

But when a mysterious stranger leads him to the edge of a precipice, he discovers that even a hologram can suffer from vertigo.

Director statement

The film stems from the collective experience of the 2020 lockdown, which accelerated the shift toward increasingly virtual relationships. We imagined a grotesque, entirely “Made in Italy” future made of flawed holograms accepted as substitutes for reality.

To portray this world, we combined live action and animation: on one side Rome, ancient and physical; on the other, inconsistent avatars brought to life by the ironic and fatalistic voices of Romans. The focus of the film is not technology, but what survives beyond it: the possibility of an authentic encounter.

Trailer

Gallery / stills