Airborne

A mother drives her daughter toward the life the daughter has chosen, moving away from her own. Within the car, the silence accumulated over the years feels heavier than words. When a flat tire forces them to halt, something long suppressed between them begins to emerge.

Daniela Zenobi is an Italian writer, director, and actress who delves into the emotional and unseen aspects of human experience through intimate, transformative storytelling.

With more than twenty years in theater research and performance, she has developed a unique artistic approach focused on presence, emotional truth, and human connection, influenced by studying masters such as Eugenio Barba, Julia Varley, Ivana Chubbuck, and Anatoly Vasiliev. Her theater work includes "Il Paese di Sopra," which won the VII Maria Cumani Quasimodo Literary Award. She wrote and directed the short film "AIRBORNE" and is currently working on her first original feature film in the U.S. with H3 Films in Los Angeles.

Director Statement

We are surrounded by war.

In these historical times, where art has long reflected the chaos of the world and the growing distance between human beings, I feel it is important to move in the opposite direction — back to something human again.

I believe every war begins inside of us first.

Against who we are. Against our own family, our mother, our father.

Against the distance between where we are and who we long to become.

At the deepest level, we all want the same thing:to feel seen,to feel understood,to feel loved.

Every war begins there.And maybe every war could also end there.

That is the soul of this film.The beginning of a place where war could finally stop.