Puca

  • Sara Scalera
  • Italy
2026
14'
Fiction film
Screening schedule
  • Friday, 13 November 2026
  • 21:30
  • Cinema Kinoteka

  • *free admission with mandatory ticket

One summer afternoon, while their parents are taking a nap, sisters Lotti and Malibù decide to sneak off to a nearby bar to see the boy they are both in love with. The youngest, Puca, insists on coming along, threatening to wake their parents up with screaming if they leave her behind. But when they reach the bar, the two girls will realise they have lost their youngest sister along the way. Puca, by Italian director Sara Scalera, is a nostalgic and visually distinctive fantasy of childhood and adolescence transporting the audience back to the 1990s. The film had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival.

Language: IT
Subtitles: HR, EN

Sara Scalera
Sara Scalera

Sara Scalera (Mesagne, 1988) began her filmmaking career in 2019 with the short In braccio alla corrente, after which she launched the short film festival Apulia Film Fest in her home town. In 2022, she made the short La Piccola Estate, which screened at numerous domestic and international festivals. The following year, she joined the production of Antonio La Camera’s short Las Memorias Perdidas de los Árboles, which won the award for Best Short Film at the 38th Critics’ Week in Venice.

Film information

Director: Sara Scalera

Screenplay: Sara Scalera, Antonio Romagnoli

Cast: Annunziata Celeste Vadicamo, Elisa Rosaci, Ludovica Tassone

Director of photography: Andrea Benjamin Manenti

Editing: Livia Galtieri

Producer: Andrea Cicini, Cristina Borsatti, Stefano Chiavarini, Leonardo Kurtz Trimeloni, Dario Laudati, Paolo Santamaria, Enrico Fracca, Laura Catalano

Production: GM PRODUCTION, Calabria Film Commission, Rai Cinema Limbo Film, Hubris Pictures, Red Couch Pictures, Eidos Film, 8Production

Festivals and awards: Venice International Film Festival 2026; Zagreb Film Festival 2026

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