The Finding - AI Short Film

The Finding
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A dark, religious, and vaguely miraculous Sicilian western fable pretending not to be a B movie.

Written, Directed and Edited by Vincenzo Lo Re
2026

THE FILM

Somewhere in rural Sicily, an old belief resurfaces:

a hidden treasure — a trovatura — may never simply be found.
It is guarded.
And whatever guards it expects something in return.

Between abandoned churches, country roads, ex votos, wandering souls and an old pact that should have remained buried, THE FINDING follows a group of characters drawn into a world where Sicilian folklore, Catholic devotion and the logic of the western slowly become indistinguishable.

A story about faith, superstition, sacrifice, greed and the dangerous possibility that certain legends may be true.

Or, at the very least, true enough.