In the intimate short film "how to feel," writer-director Arianna Sciancalepore crafts a delicate portrait of emotional reawakening. The story follows a young woman navigating the quiet aftermath of a profound personal loss, moving through her days in a muted haze where feeling anything at all seems like a distant memory. Her journey is not one of grand gestures, but of small, tentative steps—a lingering touch, an observed detail, a fleeting moment of connection that threatens to pierce the protective numbness she has built around herself. This poignant narrative explores the fragile process of relearning how to engage with the world, capturing the subtle conflict between the safety of detachment and the terrifying, beautiful risk of being truly present. With a gentle, observational tone and an atmosphere steeped in quiet realism, the film invites viewers into a deeply personal space of reflection, asking how we begin to mend when the very capacity to feel seems broken.