30th Film Festival of Lessinia Bosco Chiesanuova 22 - 31 August 2025

“In the forest, the wolf is the wolf; the sheep is the sheep. Hunters and prey. We are hunted—we hunt.” The voice of Little Red Riding Hood, seen walking through the forest, narrates, comments on, and brings new relevance to the famous fable. “The wolf is back,” her mother tells her. But the predator hasn’t only returned in the story—it has come back for real, repopulating the mountains and fields of Europe, stirring a passionate, sometimes violent, debate. The short film juxtaposes the instinctive fear of the “big bad” wolf with the fascination it holds for humans. It contrasts the imagined tale with a real-world political argument. From the microphones of the German parliament, politicians warn that children could become potential prey, “eaten in one bite,” as the story goes. But what if it were the fable itself—stripped of political frenzy—that offered us a lens through which to understand reality? A possible solution to the “problem”?