Paternal Leave

1h 40min

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.

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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.

Runtime
1h 40min
Director
Alissa Jung
Genre
Drama
Language
Italian
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
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