| Director: | Alessandro Aronadio |
| Screenplay: | Alessandro Aronadio Valerio Cilio (collaboration) |
| Music: | Santi Pulvirenti |
| Cinematography: | Francesco Di Giacomo |
| Editing: | Roberto Di Tanna |
| Language: | Italian |
Ears (Italian: Orecchie) is a 2016 Italian comedy film written and directed by Alessandro Aronadio. It premiered at the 73rd edition of the Venice Film Festival.
The film was shot in black and white and uses a metaphorical aspect ratio, which starts in 1:1 and gradually expands to 1.85.1.[1] [2] [3]
The film premiered at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, in the Venice Biennale sidebar, and was awarded the Young Cinema Award for best Italian film.[4] The film was also screened at the Seattle International Film Festival.[5]
The film was nominated as best comedy film at the 2017 Silver Ribbon Awards.[6] Giampietro Balia from Cineuropa described it as a "sardonic take on our human condition", whose "even-keeled satire spares nobody", and paired it to Jan-Ole Gerster's A Coffee in Berlin, even if "Aronadio goes one step further, bending the rules of composition to serve the higher purpose of trapping the protagonist in a claustrophobic and stifling space".[7]