The Ghost in Me
A man diagnosed with cancer begins filming his illness without knowing that his camera will become a mirror of time: twenty years of life, in an intimate journey through memory, visions, and identity.
Ticino Film Commission
E-motionfilms
E-motionfilms
- E-motionfilms; RSI; DFE Cantone Ticino; Ernst Göhner Stft
(selection):
- Primo Premio Concorso italiano Festival dei Popoli, Menzione speciale per il montaggio Festival dei Popoli
(selection):
- Festival dei Popoli, 61. Solothurner Filmtage
Diagnosed with cancer in 2005, a filmmaker instinctively picks up his camera from his hospital bed. What begins as a documentation of illness slowly transforms into an intimate, decades-long cinematic quest for meaning. Drawing from footage shot during his treatment and weaving it with fragments from different phases of his life, the film becomes a meditation on memory, mortality, and identity.
Guided by an elusive presence — an imaginary companion, a muse, a ghost — the filmmaker revisits past joys, losses, and revelations, blending reality and inner vision in a deeply personal narrative. After twenty years, this long-gestating documentary emerges not as a tale of sickness, but as a journey through time and consciousness, in search of the essence of life itself.
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