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