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Sulla terra leggeri

Australian premiere

In her debut feature, director and cowriter Sara Fgaier delivers a lyrical, sensitive and thoughtful drama about the power of memory, love and how to find someone you have lost.

Gian (Andrea Renzi), a 65-years-oldethnomusicology professor, fights the darkness caused by a sudden amnesia. Flashes of the past, with the appearance of hazy archive footage, haunt his mind like a phantasmagoria of images. Miriam (Sara Serraiocco), the daughter he no longer recognises, moves into his apartment with her son Elyas. She gives him a diary written in his twenties that revolves around Leila, a girl with whom he discovered love in the space of one night. This exacerbates Gian’s pain but invites him to recover his memory and uncover who was this important woman in his past and what happened to her?

As Gian’s unmoored present-day life is gradually replaced by the vivid images of the past, he comes to realise that only by searching for Leila will he be able to find himself again.

“A memorable debut, capable of bringing a healthy dose of novelty and freshness to Italian arthouse cinema.” - Cineuropa

OFFICIAL SELECTION- Locarno Film Festival 2024

OFFICIAL SELECTION- BFI London Film Festival 2024

OFFICIAL SELECTION- Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2025

Rating: CTC

Runtime: 94 mins

Italian and French with English subtitles

Session Times

Eastend Cinemas

Mon, Sep 29:

13:30

Mon, Oct 6:

15:40

Prospect Cinemas

Tue, Sep 23:

13:10

Thu, Oct 9:

15:45

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