The film is set in a prison: for the interiors the crew was given permission to film in the juvenile prison of L'Aquila, a building which was condemned after the earthquake and then rebuilt but was not yet being used at the time of filming. Rome was instead the location used to film most of the exteriors. In particular, we can recognise the suburbs of Rome East, where our young protagonist engages in petty theft in the first part of the film and which she escapes in the end. Other scenes were shot on the coast of Torvajanica: here Dafne enjoys the time she is granted outside the walls of the prison.
The film is set in a prison: for the interiors the crew was given permission to film in the juvenile prison of L'Aquila, a building which was condemned after the earthquake and then rebuilt but was not yet being used at the time of filming. Rome was instead the location used to film most of the exteriors. In particular, we can recognise the suburbs of Rome East, where our young protagonist engages in petty theft in the first part of the film and which she escapes in the end. Other scenes were shot on the coast of Torvajanica: here Dafne enjoys the time she is granted outside the walls of the prison.
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Daphne Scoccia - Prison
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Daphne Scoccia, Josciua Algeri - Prison
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Daphne Scoccia - Rome
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Daphne Scoccia, Valerio Mastandrea - Beach
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Daphne Scoccia - Beach
Presented in competition in the Directors’ Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival 2016, the film recounts the love story between Dafne, being held in a juvenile prison for a minor crime, and Josh, who’s being detained in the men’s wing of the same institution. Her hope for a better future clashes with the precarious situation of a loving but inadequate father on probation, who is also involved with a Romanian woman.
