Paternal Leave
Movie Information
Alone and angry, a teenager travels to the coast of northern Italy to meet her biological father. On the beaches of Emilia-Romagna’s Riviera, deserted in winter, the girl meets him for the first time. Their encounter is fraught with questions, longing and conflict, as they struggle for acceptance, love, and honesty. It’s a difficult and complicated reckoning between the choices of the past and its repercussions on the present.
Production:
The Match Factory,
Wildside,
Fremantle Italia,
Vision Distribution,
RAI Cinema,
Sky,
Emilia-Romagna Film Commission,
DFFF,
Film-Fernsehen-Autoren-Team GmbH,
Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM),
Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung,
Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film
