The Garden of Lost Dreams

The Garden of Lost Dreams

2022 · 14 min · ★ 10.0 · Drama

In a beautiful garden, different characters move and tell their stories. They are adults but have the motions of children. Three of them: Michelle, Vincenzo and Francesca begin to talk as they walk through this magical place, they tell us their dreams. Moving from one place, to reach another where they will all gather together in a big circle we discover that these adults, so candid and clean, are nothing but unborn children who have taken on the human form of their dreams, of what they would be if they came into the world: a veterinarian, a manager, and an actress.

Directed by Alessandra Carlesi

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