Film

The Big Hole

Is it still possible to imagine the future? Davide and Paola wonder about
the possibility of having a child.
That thought accompanies them first in their daily lives, as they renovate the house where they’ve moved in together, wondering whether to put up a wall to create an extra room; and then when they set off on a work trip to document humanity’s impact on the Italian landscape, where fragile landscapes, marked by environmental crises and irreversible transformations,
serve as the backdrop to their questions.
Does it make sense to bring a new life into the world in such an uncertain present? Davide takes refuge in his imagination and converses with an imaginary son. He begins to speak to him as if everything he is experiencing were already part of a legacy to be left to him. Paola, more down-to-earth, observes the world and seeks answers in reality and in the people she meets along the way.
The journey becomes both real and inner, traversing places, relationships, and shared fears. Between urgency and desire, the couple’s doubt transforms into a search, and the search into possibility: the possibility of imagining the future once again.

GREEN FILM Rating 28/40
2026
Documentary
80 min.
Italy
Davide Crudetti
Davide Crudetti, Paola Di Mitri
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