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

Crew

director SIMONA CANONICA 

story SIMONA CANONICA

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

DoP SEBASTIAN ESSER 

camera assistant STEFANIA BONA

sound RICO ANDRIOLO

sound designer 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 PRODUCTION, REDIBIS FILM

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

associate producers 
SIMONA CANONICA, RICO ANDRIOLO

with the contribution of 
EURIMAGES, MINISTERO DELLA CULTURA – 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