Anna Lazzeri

Adriano is a middle-aged man living in a dilapidated villa in Tuscany, when a group of young idealistic students arrives to restore the villa's vineyards.

At the end of the 1980s, Stella, Victor, Adèle and Etienne are 20 years old. They take the entrance exam to the famous acting school created by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre. Launched at full speed into life, passion, and love, together they will experience the turning point of their lives, but also their first tragedy.

The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.

The Lightning Woman can move at supersonic speed and teleport, watching over the city and its inhabitants. But, to face everyday life, sometimes superpowers are not enough.

Italy, 2035. Mansfield, Stendhal and Buzzati are friends and partisans fighting against the regime. Engaged in relays of coded messages hidden in ciphered books, they are forced into a race against time: the fascists are about to take the town of Ovada.

An omnibus film made under the creative supervision of Alice Diop, with the help of Ticino Film Commission and RSI.