OFF Schools – IULM

Italy, 2026. 10 min. Italian (English subtitles)

Regional premiere

Meet the audience: IULM students

Director: Leonardo Ziliani
Producer: Aurora Turani
Cinematography: Matteo Virgili
Editing: Filippo Sala

SYNOPSIS
While the caretakers of the Ricci Oddi Gallery in Piacenza are busy with garden maintenance, they discover a garbage bag in the wall’s cavities. Inside, they find Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of a Lady, the portrait stolen from the same gallery twenty-two years earlier. A few months before the theft, a student had made a discovery that attracted international media attention: X-rays analysis revealed that hidden beneath the image of the woman was a first Portrait of a Young Lady, painted by Klimt himself. Portrait of a Lady thus became one of the most famous cases of artistic “Pentimento”. After more than two decades of investigations, false leads, suspicions, and reconstructions, it’s learned with great astonishment that the painting never left the gallery walls. The case gets dismissed, but its disappearance remains a mystery.