Rumore Bianco

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.

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.