30. Film Festival della Lessinia
Bosco Chiesanuova (Italia)
23 August - 1 September 2024

When the most violent earthquake of the last fifty years hits central Italy, Maria, 85, loses everything, including her home. Federica, 45, sees her dream destroyed: a kindergarten in the woods. Neither woman can leave their town in the Sibillini Mountains, as the others have done. They find themselves alone, trying to get back on their feet. Federica rebuilds the kindergarten inside a yurt tent. Maria tries to resist in a small container donated by the Civil Protection in order to survive in the place that she has never left. But the children still live in the village, the only real inhabitants who face the solitude of that small abandoned corner of the world, where all seems lost. The mountains embrace their existence and, thanks to their imagination, the past is no longer scary and the future becomes a source of hope.

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  Silvia Luciani

  Silvia Luciani is a director and screenwriter from the Marche region of Italy. She graduated in 2005 in disciplines of art, music, entertainment and cinema at the University of Bologna. She then attended a master's degree at Rai Television in Florence. Everything is Here (2023) is her first feature film. Among other works Nkiruka, (The Best is Yet to Come) (2017) was presented at the Venice Film Festival and won various national awards.