The film Falene by Ivan Cazzola received the Best Italian Movie – SYS12 Award at the twelfth edition of the SeeYouSound International Music Film Festival, held in Turin from 3 to 8 March 2026. Cinematography is by Alessandro Mattiolo CCS, editing by Enrico Bisi, sound by Federico Malandrino, with production by Nightswim, LMC Vision and Comodo64. The award was presented by a jury comprising Matteo Bailo, Olivia Fanfani and Barbara Santi, who recognised the film for its ability to chronicle the cultural transformation of Turin through the birth of club culture and the influence of the British electronic music scene, offering a collective portrait of a movement that helped redefine the city’s urban and cultural identity.
Falene reconstructs the evolution of Turin’s electronic music scene from the 1980s to the early 2000s, a period in which the decline of the industrial era paved the way for new forms of cultural gathering centred around music and club life. Through testimonies from DJs, musicians and promoters, the film traces the emergence of alternative spaces — clubs, warehouses, independent radio stations — that transformed Turin’s nightlife into a creative laboratory and a place of experimentation and inclusion.
Founded in 2015, SeeYouSound is an international festival dedicated to the relationship between cinema and music, bringing to Turin each year a selection of feature films, documentaries, short films and music videos from around the world. The programme is organised into several competitive sections — including LongPlay Feature, LongPlay Doc, 7Inch and Soundies — alongside events, talks and performances exploring the connections between the moving image and contemporary music culture.
Ci ha raccontato Alessandro Mattiolo CCS:
«“This project grew out of a shared idea with Ivan Cazzola and the collaborative work we carried out with a trusted team at LMC Vision. The film is called” Falene “because in the 1990s, in Turin, we were all creatures of the night in one way or another, drawn to the strobe lights and the walls shaking with bass. Behind the noise and darkness of the clubs, there was a deep search for lightness and freedom. We wanted to tell the story of that flight — at times frenetic, at times desperately fragile — that turned Turin into a capital of electronic music. This is not mere nostalgia; it is the story of an energy that was looking for space and that, in some way, made us who we are today. The soundtrack was treated as a fully-fledged DJ set — powerful, cohesive and rigorously uninterrupted. The music accompanies the viewer without a break, just as it did during the nights of Turin’s club scene. An unrelenting flow that sustains the narrative tension, ensuring that the rhythm of the club never leaves the story, not even in its most reflective moments. The visual heart of Falene lies in the brutal yet poetic contrast between past and present. If the golden age of Turin’s techno scene was the Night, today’s interviews represent the Morning after. We chose to portray the protagonists twenty or thirty years on, placing them, in a sense, at the dawn of that endless night.” The visual approach for the interviews pursues an almost painful realism: a clean, natural light that conceals nothing. It is the aesthetic of the morning-after headache and of memories resurfacing in the silence, when the music has stopped but the body still holds its vibration and that persistent ringing in the ears. On the technical side, I chose to shoot in 6K Large Format using Zcam E2-F6 cameras, acquiring in HEVC at high bitrate in 10-bit. To temper the excessive sharpness of the digital sensor and give the images a more organic, softer quality, DZO Vespid lenses were paired with Tiffen Satin filters. The aim was to make the present-day footage feel less digital, creating a visual bridge with the past. In the colour grading process, the work was meticulous: balancing contrasts and saturations between archival material and the new UHD footage, ensuring a chromatic consistency that never betrayed the original atmosphere. ».
