Twin Flower
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2019
June 6 - 12, 2019
In writer-director Laura Luchetti’s strikingly photographed second feature, two teenagers on the run from personal demons form a relationship as they embark on a dangerous trip across the tough and breathtaking terrain of Sardinia.
Q&A with Laura Luchetti
In writer-director Laura Luchetti’s strikingly photographed second feature, two teenage runaways forge a relationship haunted by their respective pasts. Anna (Anastasiya Bogach) is eluding a human trafficker for whom her father worked, and Basim (Kallil Kone) is a refugee from the Ivory Coast in search of gainful employment. Together they embark on a dangerous trip across the tough but breathtaking terrain of Sardinia in the hopes of overcoming their personal demons. The remarkable chemistry between Bogach and Kone—both nonprofessional actors—carries Luchetti’s powerful film about coming of age in the throes of the refugee crisis.
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