Pollo fritto – Cortometraggio

From the front cover of *10 More Than Valid Reasons to Open Up to Your Best Friend*: «We are used to showing our victories to strangers and hiding our defeats from those who love us. Giuliano Fanfara flips the table: vulnerability is not a flaw, it is the only survival strategy left. In a world that celebrates performance and emotional self-sufficiency, male friendship is often reduced to a ritual of pats on the back and conversations left half-finished. Giuliano Fanfara, with the precision of a surgeon and the irony of someone who has lost everything at least once, dismantles piece by piece the fortress of our reticence. 10 More Than Valid Reasons to Open Up to Your Best Friend is not a self-help manual, but a manifesto for desertion from the ego. Through ten chapters that land like salutary slaps, the author guides us into the unexplored territory of secular confession. Because telling that unconfessable fear, that searing failure, or that ridiculous dream to your best friend isn't meant to make you feel better. It's meant to make you real. A lucid and moving essay that teaches us that the only way not to drown is to stop pretending we know how to swim on our own.» – – – When friendship becomes the least safe place to hide your own pain... Nicolò Cesetti and Francesco Marozzi play Roberto and Matteo in Pollo Fritto ("Fried Chicken"), a short film directed by Davide Caponi and made possible through the support of a crowdfunding campaign.