"This stylish, deep-blue debut feature questions Italian surrogacy law with its study of two disaffected youths pretending to start a family."
Guy Lodge - Variety
TFL Awards
TFL Production Award 2017 (€ 50.000)
festivals & awards
Competition, Venice Film Festival 2019 / FEDIC Award for Best Film, Lanterna Magica Award, NUOVOIMAIE Talent Award for Best New Young Actor (Claudio Segaluscio)synopsis
Ermanno is an Italian low-life. Lena is a Polish girl, seventh month pregnant. They are two strangers.
Lena has come to Italy to sell her baby. Ermanno has to pretend to be the father so that he can entrust the newborn to his uncle Fabio in adoption between relatives. But Sole, Lena’s daughter, is born pre-term and the young mother must breastfeed her before she can go away with her money.
Lena tries to deny the bond with her baby but Ermanno starts to take care of them as if he was the real father.
info
original title
Sole
genre
Drama
country
Italy, Poland
running time
104’
produced by
Kino Produzioni – Italy
in co-production with
Lava Films – Poland
directed by
Carlo Sironi
written by
Carlo Sironi, Giulia Moriggi, Antonio Manca
sales
Luxbox
