Gaia Marinese

A talented violinist, Cecilia, confined in an orphanage, meets Vivaldi who becomes her teacher. Under his mentorship and through his music, she gains courage to break free from the life she was destined for and pursue her passion.

1982. French actress Eddie is on the verge of collapse and travels to Rome accompanied by her loyal makeup artist, Valentina, to shoot a science-fiction film – a film that could be her last one.

Age of Bloom refers to the age of learning, the wandering of an awkward youth through the unfamiliar territory of adulthood. It is the culmination of newfound independence, the beauty of mistakes, and the missteps of a moment in life that feels eternal.

In one of the worst air tragedies in Italy’s history, 115 passengers lost their lives when an Alitalia flight crashed outside Palermo in 1972. Among them was director Franco Indoniva, a collaborator of Antonioni and a significant voice in Italian cinema. The causes of this deadly and mysterious accident were never fully uncovered. Today, more than half a century later, Indoniva’s daughter, the actress Lorenza Indoniva attempts to re-open the case, fully insistent on finding “a better truth,” and wishing to piece together her father’s psyche from, quite literally, debris, splinters, and shards.

It’s the story of a love that has been lost, of a painful break-up narrated through a long night’s journey, its dreams and nightmares. This girl keeps dreaming of her ex-boyfriend, that follows her in her unconscious and reveals himself in various ways.

An experimental fiction based on the twenty cigarettes in a pack brought back from Vietnam as a souvenir, each and every one smoked at a particular or important moment following one main character who is trying to quit her addiction.