Floating
A Russian astronaut awakes in a module of the International Space Station after an accident. His attention is caught by knocking from outside. Someone has come to welcome him, although it might all be just his imagination… or maybe not.
- Spain, Italy
- 2018, 8 min
- Director: Frankie De Leonardis
- Director of photography: Ricard Canyellas
- Editor: Frankie De Leonardis
- Screenplay: Frankie De Leonardis
- Music: Miquel Tejada
- Cast: Secun de la Rosa, Daniel Horvath
- Art Director: Marc Anglés
- Producer: Frankie De Leonardis
Frankie De Leonardis
Frankie De Leonardis is an Argentine-Italian director living in Barcelona. He studied social communications and stage design in Buenos Aires for three years, but he later left both careers to commit fully to the audiovisual world. His first work as a director is the short film Floating, a Twilight-Zone type of science fiction short mixed with comedy, which premiered at the Sitges festival in 2018. Since then, the short film has already had more than sixty international selections at festivals such as Taormina, Málaga, Palm Springs, and HollyShorts, and has won more than twenty awards including the SundanceTV Grand Jury Prize at Sundance London 2019.