(2024, Italy, 89')
Jasmine has a husband who loves her, three beloved sons, and her own business – a hair salon on the main street of Torre Annunziata, near Naples. It seems like nothing is missing in her life, yet after her father’s death, she is haunted by a recurring dream of a blonde girl who runs up to her and throws her arms around her neck. The irrational desire to have a daughter begins to grow within her, pushing her to embark on a complex international adoption process, even at the risk of endangering her marriage and relationship with her sons. The second feature film by the director duo Cassigoli/Kauffman delves into the most irrational spaces of the human psyche to explore the power of desires and love. Nanni Moretti is among the producers.
Italian filmmaker Cassigoli (born 1976) and American filmmaker Kauffman have been working together since 2015. In 2017, their first documentary, The Things We Keep, won the audience award at the Biografilm Festival. Butterfly, presented at the 2018 Rome Film Fest in the Alice nella città section, won the Globo d’Oro for Best Italian Documentary of the Year. Californie (2021) is their first fictional film and was presented in Venice in the Venice Days programme.
