Filiberto the Knight

A gentle hymn to the courage not to fight, to the silent revolution of kindness. A story that dismantles the classical epic, with a delicacy that makes more noise than a thousand (s)words.

Once upon a time, there was a cowardly knight. “All knights are brave?”, you must say.  Well, not him. He was terrified of war. He did everything he could to avoid battle: he deliberately took the wrong road and pretended to be ill. Until one day, the king summoned him to the palace and left him no choice: “Bring me a dragon’s tooth, the black knight’s sword, the lake monster’s nose hair and the witch’s cauldron, or I will take everything from you, including your shoes! Our knight had no choice and went to the dragon, the black knight, the witch and the lake monster. Instead of waging war on them, however, he simply asked them for what the king had demanded. He took with him only one weapon, the most powerful of all: kindness.