Awards

Best director – Glocal Film Festival

Best Ethnomusicology-Themed Film – IsReal Film Festival

Nomination for Best Sound Design – IDA Documentary Award 2025

Partecipazioni a Festival

Visions du Réel – 54º Festival International de Cinéma Nyon

73º Trento Film Festival

4º Contemporanea Film Festival

14º Glocal Film Festival

9º IsReal Festival del Cinema Documentario

17º Ulaanbaatar International Film Festival

28º Festival CinemAmbiente

14º Glocal Film Festival

RIFF – Rotterdam Independent Film Festival

11º Miami Woman Film Fest

61º Solothurn Film Festival

SONG OF BREATH

by Simona Canonica

documentary (Switzerland, Italy; 2025; 110’)

Synopsis

Let’s try to hold our breath for a moment.

What happens to the world when we stop breathing? When we are afraid, when we lose contact with ourselves? The world, as sick as it is, continues to heal us, notices every single creature and makes us reborn. It heals the wounds of our origins, through a universal song, hidden miles and miles away, and with the vibrations of sounds it is close to each of us, so much so that it touches us in the soul.

A human resonance. Which, if you look closely, is the pentagram of a universal DNA.

Cast

ULZII-UCHRAL ZULZAGA

ZOLZAYA DAMBA

ANTHONY DUWUN LEE 

TRENT LEE

ODSUREN BAATAR

DASHDORJ TSERENDAVAA

KENJI MIYAGAWA

ELIO DESILVESTRO

GIULIANO ZUGLIANI

LARRY GURRUWIWI

DELINA CANONICA

MIRENA CANONICA

Cast tecnico

director SIMONA CANONICA 

story SIMONA CANONICA 

screenplay SIMONA CANONICA, RICO ANDRIOLO, DANIELA PERSICO, DARIO D’AMATO

DoP BASTIAN ESSER

camera assistant STEFANIA BONA, MARIANGELA MARLETTA

sound RICO ANDRIOLO

sound design RICO ANDRIOLO

sound editing and mix MANU GERBER, MPSE

editor ENRICO GIOVANNONE

production managers MARTIN ALAN TRANQUILLINI, ALBERTO FAVRUZZO, SEBASTIANO LUCA INSIGNA

set manager ENRICO FEDRIZZI

production assistant PAOLO POLACCHI

a co-production
AMKA FILMS, REDIBIS FILM

produced by
AMEL SOUDANI, NICOLA BERNASCONI, DANIELE SEGRE, DANIELE DE CICCO

associate producers
SIMONA CANONICA, RICO ANDRIOLO

in association with
EMIDE PRODUCTIONS 

with the contribution of  
EURIMAGES, MiC – FONDO PER LE COPRODUZIONI MINORITARIE, FILM COMMISSION TORINO PIEMONTE – PIEMONTE DOC FILM FUND, PROVINCIA AUTONOMA DI TRENTO – TRENTINO FILM FUND, UFFICIO FEDERALE DELLA CULTURA, RSI – RADIOTELEVISIONE SVIZZERA, CANTON TICINO – DIPARTIMENTO DELL’EDUCAZIONE, DELLA CULTURA E DELLO SPORT