Completed - ITALIAN - First film, Female director, Drama - 90 minutes
A boy from the country, shy and naïf, falls in love with a mysterious and violent girl that introduces him to pain, building a relationship that will make them face together the secret she’s hiding: her mother’s illness.
Year of production : 2021 Director(s) : Beatrice BALDACCI Cast : Irene VETERE, Lorenzo ALOI, Hélène NARDINI, Elisa DI EUSANIO, Paolo RICCI, Federico ROSATI Producer(s) : Andrea GORI (Lumen Films), Aurora ALMA BARTIROMO (Lumen Films)
In the summer of his eighteenth birthday, Giulio has decided not to leave and will spend his holidays at home, helping his parents with the work in the vegetable garden. In the next house, uninhabited for some time, a twenty-year-old girl arrives. Giulio would like to meet her, but Lia is grumpy and introverted.One day Giulio is swimming in the lake and Lia tries to drown him as a joke. Giulio is a good boy, sensitive and polite. Attracted by her, he starts thinking about her day and night. Lia initiates him into strange and increasingly dangerous games.However, the girl does not talk about herself. She says she has come alone to spend the holidays in the old family house, where she has not been since she was a child.Lia, however, is hiding secrets and does not allow anyone to step into her old abandoned house.
Country(ies) : ITALY
This list is based on the distributors’ declarations. In the case where you don't agree about one of them, please inform us of the change(s) you request by clicking here.
Alice nella Città 2021 (Raffaella Fioretta Prize for Italian Cinema)Venice International Film Festival 2021 (Hollywood Foreign Press Associacion (HFPA) Award)Fabrique du Cinema Award 2021 (Best Italian First Feature nomination)Porto Femme 2022 (Best International Feature Films)International IMAGO Film Festival 2022 ("Amarcord" Best Italian Film Award)Adriatic Film Festival 2022 (Best Feature Film Debut Award)Sehsuchte 2022 (Best Feature Film)Nastri d'Argento 2022 (Nomination Best Story)