Debora Vrizzi

Rachele laughs at the stranger with whom she chats online. And she leads us to discover the only feeling she knows – the poisonous bond which unites her parents. In public they seem tenderly in love, but behind closed doors, it’s all possession, fear, submission and pain. Rachele wants to be different, but can she really be so, when the only form of love she knows is violence?

A unique chance to explore Pier Paolo Pasolini's youth through the voice and the body of his direct cousin, writer and poet Nico Naldini.

A unique chance to explore Pier Paolo Pasolini's youth through the voice and the body of his direct cousin, writer and poet Nico Naldini.

Calogero está no programa de proteção a testemunhas após ter visto um assassinato da máfia na Sicília. Com uma nova identidade, ele é enviado para Sauris di Sotto, uma aldeia situada nos Alpes italianos, para começar uma nova vida, mas ele não se anima com a neve e as danças folclóricas do local. E para piorar a situação, o assassino que ele denunciou virou informante e foi beneficiado pelo mesmo programa, indo também para Sauris. Calogero acredita que o assassino está à sua procura, mas dos desentendimentos entre os dois surge uma amizade que os leva a diferentes caminhos.

“I approached Pierluigi Cappello when he became my bedside table companion. We didn’t know each other, but were already intimate. His poems are full of images, I might even have dreamt some. I didn’t know anything about his personal life, about the motorcycle accident when he was sixteen, and that he spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. There’s no trace of it in the poems: in his verses Pierluigi runs, and sometimes he flies.”

Set in a tiny seaside town, Fabio Mollo’s feature debut is a quietly evocative drama about a family’s attempts to cope with the loss of their son, and the impact of his absence on his teenaged sister Grazia.