Francesco Ferraris

Bianca is 12 years old when she is chosen to play the angel — a symbol of purity and grace — at her town fair. As she prepares for the moment when she will be lifted off the ground, her encounter with Ginevra fractures the surface of childhood and opens a crack from which a new and unsettling desire seeps in. In a suspended time and place, the film covers the imperceptible yet radical transition between imposed purity and awareness of one’s own body, between childhood and adulthood. A female coming-of-age tale that investigates — through its hagiographic and apocryphal aesthetic — the symbolic construct of grace and the inherited weight of guilt.

In a near future, vegetation has mysteriously stopped reproducing. A scientist monitors the sound frequencies of an oak tree, until one day she hears a new sound.

Armed with a camcorder, Valeria flees to the mountains in search of a new life, but memories and desires intertwine with the present. An intimate diary that reflects on identity and belonging.