At the 6th Italian Movie Festival in Israel | Cinema Italia 2018 צ’ינמה איטליה, a movie by Margherita Ferri, with Eleonora Conti, Susanna Acchiardi, Fabrizia Sacchi, Edoardo Lomazzi, Alexandra Gaspar.
Maia Zenardi (Eleonora Conti) is an introverted sixteen-year-old who is biologically female and lives in an unknown mountain village in a regional park from the Italian Apennines. Between the harassment from school classmates, an unstable relationship with his mother (Fabrizia Sacchi) and big ambitions to make it in the national ice hockey team, Maia is struggling internally. There is only one thing that is certain for him – being a boy. Playing on the male team, his protective wear has turned into a shield from the outside world and an escape. But this sport is not Maia’s only refuge – the popular and conventionally attractive Vanessa (Susanna Acchiardi) is also slowly becoming his close friend and partner. Under the nickname “Zen”, the protagonist has to face cruel and degrading bullying from malicious schoolmates, all of whom badger Maia for being a lesbian and looking more masculine.
In Italian, with Hebrew & English subtitles.
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“Cinema Italia 2018” is the result of the close and fruitful collaboration between ADAMAS Italia Israel, the Italian Cultural Institutes of Tel Aviv and Haifa, Istituto Luce Cinecittà, the Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo and the Cinematheques of Israel.
Wednesday, April 10th, at 19:00
Rosh Pina Cinematheque, rehov David Shuv 32, Rosh Pina