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0h 19m

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Drama

Bianca is 12 years old when she is chosen to play the angel β€” a symbol of purity and grace β€” at her town fair. As she prepares for the moment when she will be lifted off the ground, her encounter with Ginevra fractures the surface of childhood and opens a crack from which a new and unsettling desire seeps in. In a suspended time and place, the film covers the imperceptible yet radical transition between imposed purity and awareness of one’s own body, between childhood and adulthood. A female coming-of-age tale that investigates β€” through its hagiographic and apocryphal aesthetic β€” the symbolic construct of grace and the inherited weight of guilt.

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