Italy
THE COIN
79 MIN
2025
Carlo is a bum who suffers from recurrent nightmares. He lives by the rule of the coin, tossing the very same coin over and over again to take every single decision of his life. Coin after coin he arrives in L'Aquila, a city hit by an earthquake. Here he becomes involved in a gruesome murder case. With the help of Marta, an alcoholic woman he met on the road, he starts an investigation which will soon have a metaphysical perspective.

Cast & Crew
Producers: Ray Wilkins, Nenad Dukic
Director: Alessandro Aniballi, Emiliano Dante
Script: Emiliano Dante
Director of Photography: Emiliano Dante
Production Design: Dalila Guergache
Music: Emiliano Dante
Sound: Andrea De Petris, Ettore Vozza
Editing: Emiliano Dante
Cast: Piotr Hanzelewicz, Tiziana Tarantelli, Danil Aceto, Tim Fritz, Pietro Albino Di Pasquale
Production. Dansacro
Emiliano Dante
Emiliano Dante is an experimental filmmaker born in L'Aquila, Italy, in 1974. His main works before The Coin are the feature fiction Limen (Omission, 2012) and the trilogy of experimental documentaries about the earthquake: Into the Blue (2009), Habitat – Personal Notes (2014) and Apennine (2017). He taught Cinema, Photography and Television in University of L'Aquila, History of Contemporary Arts in the University of L'Aquila and in University of Cassino, direction in Centro Sperimentale of L'Aquila and cinema in the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome.

Filmography
The Home Sequence Series (doc. series, 2003-05), Payphones (doc., 2005); Into the Blue (doc., 2009), Limen (Omission) (2013), Habitat-Personal Notes (doc., 2014); Apennine (doc., 2017), The Coin (2025).

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