

Happy Birthday
ROLES: Writer & Director // YEAR: 2018 // Fiction Film - 15min33sec
Produced by DITO
SYNOPSIS
Magdalena, the rich and decadent tenant of a beautiful house, organizes the birthday party of her favorite, Eric. She invites his young friends to the party but a mix of childish naivety and sexual energy pervades the atmosphere. The celebration turns out to be a vortex of folly driving the participants to the point of non-return during a biblical reenactment.
Loosely inspired by “The Antique Wardrobe” by French author Georges Bataille and his theory of the relationship between love and death, Happy Birthday is nothing more than the representation of a dance of death.
FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS
Chilean International Film Festival - Santiago del Chile
XXI Semana del Cortometraje - Madrid
Visionär Film Festival - Berlin (Audience Award)
Hacker Porn Film Festival - Rome
Berlin Porn Film Festival
Lesexlab- New York City
CREDITS
Written and directed by: Savio Debernardis
CAST: Maura Camilla Cocco // Alexandra Gherman // Taylor Kendall // Joe Grainger // Thiago Dias
DOP: Carlos Isabel Garcia
Editing: Antonella Sarubbi
Sound design: Felix Lau
Sound mix: Bernadett Kuli
Original music: Matresanch // Anna Kühlein




