Mambo Kids

Generation 14plus 2026

Flavio and Alessandro are bound by a friendship as deep as life itself. They love wandering through the city’s streets, especially those skirting the countryside and swallowed by the woods, where old dogs linger in sorrow for their owner’s departure, and even older abandoned barrels make for perfect hoops. Today, their path leads them to places they have never seen before, places they did not even imagine could exist. Only upon the branches of a large cherry tree can Flavio and Alessandro picture what tomorrow will bring – when Alessandro will leave to study far away from here.

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by Emanuele Tresca (Director, Screenplay), Angelo Giordano (Screenplay)
with Alessandro Nicola Bernardo, Flavio Condemi Italy 2026 Italian 20' Colour World premiere recommendation: 14 years and up

With

Alessandro Nicola Bernardo (Alessandro)
Flavio Condemi (Flavio)

Crew

Director	Emanuele Tresca
Screenplay	Emanuele Tresca, Angelo Giordano
Cinematography	Pedro Pablo Hernandez
Editing	Angelo Giordano
Music	Gaia Morelli
Sound Design	Giacomo Gozzi, Nunzio Casciello
Producers	Emanuele Tresca, Angelo Giordano, Valentina Pietrarca, Fra Picarelli Perrotta, Niccolò Biasci, Matteo Banni, Pietro Michelini
Executive Producer	Pietro Michelini
Co-Producer	Pietro Michelini

Produced by

Onirica Pictures

Caserta, Italy

World Sales

Sayonara Film

Bologna, Italy

Photos

Emanuele Tresca

Born in Caserta, Italy in 2000. He is the founder of Onirica Pictures, an independent production collective with which he has directed, produced and written several short films which have screened across Italy. After graduating with a degree in screenwriting from the Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti in Milan, he is currently studying anthropology at Sapienza University in Rome.

Filmography

2023 Sintonia (Syntony); short film 2024 Domani che fai (What Are You Doing Tomorrow); short film, co-directed by Maria Elena Franceschini 2026 Mambo Kids; short film, Berlinale 2026

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2026