Wilma Labate (La mia generazione, Domenica) is returning to fiction feature film direction after shooting a series of documentaries (the most recent of which, Arrivederci Saigon [+lee también:
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“The story written by the D’Innocenzo brothers blew me away because it tells the tale of a teenager living within the climate of inertia which pervades our lives today. It’s been a wonderful thing, embarking upon this project - a wholly female tale which the film world and the wider world really are in need of”, enthused Labate. Indeed, La ragazza ha volato tells the tale of Nadia, an awkward teenager who lives in Trieste, a border city caught between a raft of cultures, “a place buffeted by a powerful wind, where the protagonist grows up afflicted by a loneliness which she will unexpectedly escape”.

In the role of Nadia, we find the very youthful Alma Noce who made herself known to the wider public via Gabriele Muccino’s The Best Years [+lee también:
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Photography is in the hands of Sandro Chessa (Assandira [+lee también:
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La ragazza ha volato is produced by Tralab Srl and Nightswim Srl alongside RAI Cinema, in co-production with Staragara Institut (Slovenia), in association with Gianluca Arcopinto Srl, with the support of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Film Commission and the Italian Ministry for Culture’s Film and Audiovisual Department.