{{Short description|2014 Italian film}} {{Infobox film | name = Short Skin | native_name = {{Infobox name module|it|Short Skin - I dolori del giovane Edo}} | image = Short Skin.jpg | caption = Poster | director = Duccio Chiarini | producer = {{plainlist| *Duccio Chiarini *Babak Jalali }} | writer = {{plainlist| *Duccio Chiarini *Ottavia Madeddu *Marco Pettenello *Miroslav Mandic }} | starring = Matteo Creatini | music = Woodpigeon | cinematography = Baris Obzicer | editing = Roberto Di Tanna | production_companies = | distributor = | released = {{Film date|df=yes|2014|8|30|Venice Film Festival}} | runtime = 86 minutes | country = Italy | language = Italian }} '''''Short Skin''''' ({{langx|it|Short Skin - I dolori del giovane Edo}}) is a 2014 Italian comedy film directed by Duccio Chiarini in his feature film debut, and starring Matteo Creatini.
The film premiered on 30 August 2014 at the 71st Venice International Film Festival in the "Biennale College" sidebar, and was screened on 8 February 2015 at the 65th Berlin Film Festival in the "Generation" section.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Hopewell|first1=John|title=Venice: Good Films To Release 'Short Skin' in Italy|url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/venice-good-films-to-release-short-skin-in-italy-exclusive-1201293145/|access-date=13 May 2024 |work=Variety |date=29 August 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=van Hoeij|first1=Boyd|title='Short Skin': Berlin Review |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/short-skin-berlin-review-775251/|access-date=13 May 2024|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=21 February 2015}}</ref> The film was released in Italy on 23 April 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.corriere.it/cinema/mereghetti/15_aprile_20/ritratto-una-generazione-fragilita-giovane-edo-e77900b0-e752-11e4-95de-75f89e715407.shtml|title=Il ritratto di una generazione nelle fragilità del giovane Edo|work=Corriere della Sera|date=20 April 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.iodonna.it/attualita/eventi-e-mostre/foto-racconto/i-film-in-sala-dal-3-maggio/|title=I film in sala dal 3 maggio|author1=Paolo Mereghetti|author2=Paola Piacenza|work=iO Donna|date=3 May 2015}}</ref>
It was awarded with a Grand Prix at the Cabourg Film Festival, and with a Ciak d'Oro for best directorial debut.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lemercier |first1=Fabien |title=Short Skin is triumphant at Cabourg |url=https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/294144/#cm |access-date=13 May 2024 |work=Cineuropa |date=15 June 2015 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2015/06/03/ciak-doro-2015-i-vincitori-trionfa-il-giovane-favoloso-di-martone-5-premi-tra-cui-miglior-film/1744644/|title=Ciak d'oro 2015, i vincitori – Trionfa Il giovane favoloso di Martone: 5 premi tra cui miglior film|date=3 June 2015|work=Il Fatto Quotidiano|archive-date=6 July 2015|access-date=7 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706210846/http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2015/06/03/ciak-doro-2015-i-vincitori-trionfa-il-giovane-favoloso-di-martone-5-premi-tra-cui-miglior-film/1744644/|url-status=live}}</ref>
== Plot == Seventeen-year-old Edoardo, a young man from Pisa, suffers from phimosis, which makes it impossible for him not only to have sexual intercourse but also to masturbate. He and his family spend the summer on the Tuscan seafront, where he begins to suffer the first pangs of love for Bianca, his neighbor, who is about to go to study in Paris.
Cloaked in his asexual world, Edoardo is annoyed by the fact that everyone around him seems to always talk only about sex: his friend Arturo, with his obsession with losing his virginity, his parents, who pressure Edoardo to propose to Bianca, and his little sister, Olivia, who wants to mate her dog.
However, it isn't the pressure from others that breaks Edoardo's shyness, but rather a meeting with a girl he meets by chance and Bianca's unexpected openness to him. Thus, forced to leave his world, Edoardo will initially try to solve his problem through clumsy stratagems to finally find the courage to face his fears and undergo circumcision surgery.
==Cast== {{Cast listing| *Matteo Creatini as Edoardo *Francesca Agostini as Bianca *Nicola Nocchi as Arturo *Miriana Raschillà as Elisabetta *Bianca Ceravolo as Olivia *Michele Crestacci as Roberto *Bianca Nappi as Daniela *Crisula Stafida as Pamela *Francesco Acquaroli as the Doctor *Lisa Granuzza Di Vita as Lara *Anna Ferzetti as Anna }}
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{{Cabourg Film Festival Grand Prix}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Short Skin}} Category:2014 films Category:2014 comedy films Category:Italian comedy films Category:2014 Italian films Category:2014 directorial debut films
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