ITALY – 2022 – DCP – color – 110’

Direction: Giulia Louise Steigerwalt
Music: Giulia Louise Steigerwalt
Cinematography: Vladan Radovic
Editing: Gianni Vezzosi
Set design: Cristina Del Zotto
Music: Michele Braga
Costumes: Andrea Cavalletto
Cast: Fabrizio Bentivoglio (Guglielmo), Barbara Ronchi (Francesca), Thony (Debora), Andrea Sartoretti (Alberto), Tesa Litvan (Ana), Margherita Rebeggiani (Maria), Luca Nozzoli (Sergio), Enrico Borello (Matteo), Arianna Ascoli (Simona)
Producer: Matteo Rovere
Production: Groenlandia, Rai Cinema
Distribuzione: 01 Distribution

SYNOPSIS

When Maria returns from her summer vacation, she is finally noticed by the boy she likes, who through Sergio, a schoolmate, asks her if she wants to sleep with him. It’s not the most romantic proposal, but Maria accepts immediately. Meanwhile, Francesca,Sergio’s mother, is radically changing her perspective on her life, getting closer and closer to her friend Debora, with whom she iscreating a new and more authentic relationship. One evening, she confesses this to her doctor, Guglielmo, whom she met by chancein a bar. Ever since his wife left him, he has lived in a bubble of apathy where the only real contact appears to occur with Ana, ayoung prostitute he regularly sees, who, despite life’s difficulties, has kept her desire to dream.

THE DIRECTOR: Giulia Louise Steigerwalt

She began her career as an actress in Gabriele Muccino’s filmBut Forever in My Mind, followed by other films and tv series. After graduating in Philosophy, she studied screenwriting, first at RAI’s Script course, then at the UCLA in Los Angeles. She wrote the second season of the seriesZio Gianni. Her screenplays includeFiabeschi Torna a Casaby Max Mazzotta,The Champion by Leonardo D’Agostini,Husband and Wife,An Almost Ordinary Summer and Marylin Has Black Eyesby Simone Godano. At the2019 Silver Ribbon awards, she won the SIAE “Special Award for best screenplay” forThe Champion and An Almost Ordinary Summer.

AWARDS
2022 Annecy Cinema Italien – Competition: Prix CICAE
2022 Silver Ribbon Awards: Best New Director
2022 Saturnia FF – Feature Films: Best Feature Film Film, Women Cinema Award