Camilla Paternò

2046. The air has become unbreathable and the planet is suffering from a lack of oxygen. Green Militias are in power and have been denying people all contact with Nature for years in order to heal it. In NUR, in Sardinia, stretches one of the few remaining surviving forests, bordered by an impassable wall and guarded by drones. Five teenagers, who grew up without ever having touched a tree or taken a swim in the sea, decide to enter the forest, risking their lives, to discover the truth about their parents’ disappearance and take back their future.

Alternating archive footage of Anita Ekberg with the story of a quintessential diva as Monica Bellucci who is offered the chance to play Anita in a movie, digging through this woman’s story, she retraces her exceptional life, frailties and chooses, reflecting on what it feels like to be an icon. What key decisions a contemporary diva faces in order not to fall into oblivion?

The work deals with the election campaign of Vladimir Luxuria, the first transgender woman to sit in the Italian Parliament. She started off as an entertainer in gay nightclubs, found fame in television parlours and achieved consecration as a defender of LGBT rights by organising the first World Gay Pride in Rome in the Jubilee year. Luxuria entered parliament and with her emerged a social cross-section of an Italy that is changing in spite of prejudice. Thanks to her social battles around Italy, the voices of LGBT people gain visibility and social recognition