Something You Said Last Night
Directed By
Luis De Filippis
A writer in her twenties accompanies her parents and younger sister on vacation.
- ABOUT
- BIO
After being fired from her job, Ren, an aspiring writer and mid-twenty-something, accompanies her Canadian-Italian family on vacation. The realities of being a stunted millennial and a trans woman coalesce as Ren struggles to balance the yearning for independence with the comfort of being taken care of.
Luis De Filippis is a Canadian Italian filmmaker. She learned the craft of storytelling as a child while listening to her Bisnonna, Nonnas, and Zias gossip and tell stories of the past. Her films include the short For Nonna Anna (2017), which received a Sundance Special Jury Prize, and her debut feature, Something You Said Last Night (2022), which played at festivals around the world where it received prizes including: the TIFF Change Maker Award, the Sebastiáne Award at the San Sebastián Film Festival, and the Rotterdam Youth Jury Award. De Filippis is an alum of the TIFF Talent Lab and Writer’s Studio, Berlinale Talents, and CHANEL writing fellowship.
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