| Director: | Carolina Cavalli |
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| Production: | Elsinore Film (Antonio Celsi), The Apartment Pictures (Annamaria Morelli), PiperFilm (Massimiliano Orfei, Luisa Borella, Davide Novelli)
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| Running Time: | 107’ |
| Language: | Italian |
| Country: | Italy |
| Year: | 2025 |
| Main Cast: | Benedetta Porcaroli, Lucrezia Guglielmino, Chris Pine, Marco Bonadei, Eva Robin’s |
| Screenplay: | Carolina Cavalli |
| Cinematographer: | Lorenzo Levrini |
| Editor: | Babak Jalali |
| Production Designer: | Martino Bonanomi |
| Costume Designer: | Francesca Cibischino |
| Music: | Thomas Moked Blum, Noaz Deshe |
| Sound: | Francesco Lucarelli, Francesco Liotard, Jacopo Lattanzio |
| Visual Effects: | Stefano Bellano |
Cinema
Il rapimento di Arabella
Orizzonti
Synopsis
Holly, twenty-eight, has always felt like the wrong version of herself and that her life hasn’t turned out as expected. When she meets a little girl named Arabella, she becomes convinced the child is her younger self. Eager to run away from home, Arabella decides to play along with Holly’s mission: to go back and become someone special.
Director's statement
The story of Il rapimento di Arabella isn’t really about a kidnapping in the usual sense, despite what the title suggests. It’s mostly about a girl finding her own way to fix the past, make peace with regrets, quiet anxiety about the future, and let go of unmet expectations.
The main character, Holly, belongs to a group of people — or perhaps a generation — afraid that life is always happening somewhere else. Like when we were children, imagining a thousand possible lives, even though we only live one. But thinking like that as adults devalues reality; it distracts from the world, its meaning, its beauty, its injustices, and our own role in it all.
Although Il rapimento di Arabella feels somewhat like a comedy, it began with serious reflections I found on Reddit and other online forums, as well as everyday feelings of my own. That’s why I wrote this story — it seemed like something many people could relate to, or at least recognise.
Production/distribution
PRODUCTION 1:
Elsinore Film - Antonio Celsi
Via delle Mantellate 29°
00165 Roma, Italia
Tel: +39 3450516086
E-mail: saravalente@elsinorefilm.it
Social Media: @elsinorefilm - Instagram
PRODUCTION 2:
The Apartment Pictures, a Fremantle Company - Annamaria Morelli
Via Pompeo Magno, 1
00195 Roma, Italia
Tel: +39 3382258180
E-mail: priscilla.pacetti@theapartment.it
PRODUCTION 3:
PiperFilm – Massimiliano Orfei, Luisa Borella, Davide Novelli
Via Sardegna, 50
00187 Roma, Italia
Tel: +39 3270161503
E-mail: d.novelli@piper.film
Web: https://www.piper.film/
Social Media: @piperfilm.official
WORLD SALES 1:
Piper Film - Catia Rossi
Via Sardegna, 50
00187 Roma, Italia
Tel: +39 3465125862
E-mail: c.rossi@piper.film
Web: https://www.piper.film/
Social Media: @piperfilm.official
WORLD SALES 2:
Charades
3 Rue des Cottages
75018 Paris, France
ITALIAN DISTRIBUTOR:
Piper Film - Davide Novelli
Via Sardegna, 50
00187 Roma, Italia
Tel: +39 3270161503
E-mail: d.novelli@piper.film
Web: https://www.piper.film/
Social Media: @piperfilm.official
INTERNATIONAL PRESS OFFICE:
Paul Ockelford – Premier
2-4 Bucknall Street
WC2H 8LA London, United Kingdom
E-mail: thekidnappingofarabella@premiercomms.com
ITALIAN PRESS OFFICE:
Rosa Esposito
Tel: +39 3471254861
E-mail: rosa-esposito@hotmail.it
Ulteriori addetti: Arianna Monteverdi - arianna.monteverdi@gmail.com
