La ragazza del mondo

Marco Danieli : 2016
Worldly Girl

Giulia's world is an ancient one, frozen in time, rigorously devoted to its sacred texts – a world that ruthlessly shuts out those who don't belong. Libero's world is that of everyone else, with their mistakes, their strategies for getting by and starting over, their ability to love unconditionally. When she meets Libero, Giulia realises her life can go in a different direction, of her own choosing. It's a pure, inescapable passion, an intense new season in their lives, and a decision that will cost Giulia her inclusion in the Jehovah's Witnesses community, and turn her into an outcast. Yet Libero will give her the greatest gift of love: the freedom to belong to the world outside, a shining new world full of future chances. Marco Danieli's feature debut premiered in competition at Venice Days 2016.

The Levelling

Hope Dickson Leach : 2016

Somerset, October 2014. When trainee veterinary surgeon Clover Catto receives a call telling her that her younger brother Harry is dead, she must return to her family farm and face the man she hasn't spoken to in years: her father Aubrey. She is shocked to discover her home changed forever by the devastating floods that destroyed the area six months earlier, and Aubrey a tormented shadow of his former self. As she learns what has been going on in her long absence she and her father forge a new understanding, but can it withstand the troubles that they face on the ravaged farm as well as the truth of what drove Harry to take his own life? As the funeral approaches, her discoveries send Clover on an emotional journey of reckoning – with her family, her childhood and herself. Hope Dickson Leach's feature debut premiered at Toronto International Film Festival 2016.