original title:
La fuga - Girl in Flight
directed by:
cast:
Filippo Nigro, Donatella Finocchiaro, Lisa Andreozzi, Emina Amatovic, Andrea Atzei, Daniele Garofola, Alessio Spagnoli, Linda Cerabolini, Silvia Salvatori, Dario Andreozzi, Jelena Halilovic, Chiara Ahmetovic, Daniele Garofalo
screenplay:
cinematography:
editing:
set design:
Roberta Iaci
costume design:
music:
producer:
Michael King, Ruedi Gerber
production:
Perché No Films, ZAS Films, with the support of Regione Lazio, in collaboration with RSI, Roma Lazio Film Commission, Toscana Film Commission
distribution:
world sales:
country:
Italy/Switzerland
year:
2017
film run:
80'
format:
colour
release date:
07/03/2019
festivals & awards:
Silvia (Lisa Andreozzi), a headstrong, determined eleven-year-old girl from a small town in Tuscany, glows with excitement as she boards a train alone going towards Rome. She immediately befriends a 13-year-old boy, and when asked by the boy’s mother how she came to be traveling alone, Silvia replies “my parents are very modern and leave me alone to do as I wish.”
Three months earlier at her home, Silvia’s mother Guilia (Donatella Finochiarro) is incapacitated by a severe episode of recurrent depression and her father Pietro (Filippo Nigro), a introspective man of few words and many rules, is of little help. Silvia suffers greatly from the rejection of her mother and lack of attention from her father, and, at her breaking point after another negative response from her parents to her question about a promised trip to Rome, Silvia gathers her things together and leaves... alone.
Back on the train, Silvia meets Emina (Maddelena Halilovic), a smart, defiant thirteen year old Gypsy girl, and upon arriving in Rome, follows Emina as she disappears down a stairway inside Rome’s enormous Termini station...