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Small Homeland

Small Homeland

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 29, 2013

Runtime

1h 50m

Genres

Drama

User Score

64%

Original Title

Piccola patria

Production Companies

Jump Cut, Arsenali Medicei

Director

Alessandro Rossetto

Description

Two young girls, a hot, stifling summer, the desire to run away from a small provincial town. Luisa is full of life, uninhibited, unconventional. Renata is dark, angry and in need of love. The lives of two young women is a tale of blackmail, of a love betrayed, of violence: Luisa uses her Albanian boyfriend, Bilal; Renata uses Luisa’s body to orchestrate her revenge. Both want to leave the small community where they have grown up among village festivals and independence gatherings, helpless families and new generations of migrants targeted by those who feel increasingly threatened. Luisa, Renata and Bilal will risk loosing themselves, loosing a precious part of themselves, of those they love, ultimately loosing their own lives.