The happyness diaries is a film that listens to the heart of a growing generation. In a school in the Grècia Salentina, a group of students, armed with video cameras, document their daily lives, dreams, fears, and most intimate reflections. Amid moments of joy, wonder, and hidden anxieties, a collective portrait emerges of the lives and emotions of those still discovering the world. With sincerity and delicacy, the film explores happiness, love, death, courage, and the meaning of life, offering an authentic and valuable glimpse into a fragile and evolving world.
Italt, 56 min, 2025
Festival: Festival del Cinema Europeo – Official Selection
Davide Barletti (1972) has been working as a screenwriter, director and producer since 1995, creating numerous films, documentaries, short films and television series. Founder of the Fluid Video Crew collective, with which he chronicled the Italian counterculture scene of the 1990s, in 2010 he created Fluid Produzioni, choosing his homeland, Puglia, as its headquarters.
Many of his works have been selected and awarded in the main International Festivals.
His main works include:
is a director and filmmaker, graduated in Communication Sciences and trained at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. He has collaborated with Mimmo Calopresti, Daniele Luchetti, Paolo Sorrentino, Alessandro Piva, and Gianfranco Pannone, and has directed theater productions and music videos. His short films and documentaries, including Il principiante (2004), Mattotti (2006), Nanga Parbat – La montagna nuda (2008), and Chance Encounter on the Tiber (2010), have been presented and awarded at festivals in Italy and abroad.
graduated in International Economics and Anthropology in Rome and Paris. After her first documentary film, Amara, she has pursued research on new forms of storytelling and the creation of collective works through collaborative writing processes. Life and cinema intersect in her projects, reflecting a poetic attention to the world she inhabits and a desire to tell stories that reveal other stories. She lives and works between southern Italy and southern France.
