Coming of Age

A kind of magical realism opens the Competition. Holly, by Belgian director Fien Troch, tells the story of a teenager with unique premonitory and beneficial powers. With Paradise Is Burning, Mika Gustafson follows the struggles of three sisters abandoned by their mother. Adolescence is also the main topic explored in Gasoline Rainbow by Bill and Turner Ross, where a group of five teenagers embarks on a great escape in a van.
It’s also a day for true virtuosos, such as Giorgio Diritti. His Lubo, tells the story of Lubo Moser (Franz Rogowski), a Yenish street artist conscripted into the Swiss army, only to later rebel against the government program that separates children from nomadic families. We delve into the depths of a reverse Rome with Amor, by video artist and documentarian Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri, and then ascend to meet (perhaps) Dalí with Quentin Dupieux.