Shooting has begun in the Nebrodi Mountains, in northern Sicily, on The Girl from Tomorrow [+lee también:
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The Girl from Tomorrow tells the story of Lia, a young woman who reacts to the most terrible form of violence with an act of rebellion which blows apart the social conventions of the time. In a world where the strongest dictate the rules, where mafia roots run deep and are accepted as a natural part of life, and where the powerful make decisions while the weak do as they’re told, her courage will pave the way for the fight for women’s rights.

In 2017, Savina presented her short film Viola, Franca - a graduation movie resulting from a film direction course at the University of California UCLA - in a world premiere in New York’s Tribeca Film Festival, and The Girl from Tomorrow seems to be the expanded version of this original short. It told the story of Franca Viola, a seventeen-year-old girl from Alcamo in Sicily, who, in 1965, was the first woman in Italy to say no to a “shotgun” wedding, refusing her abductor and rapist Filippo Melodia, who was the nephew of a local mafia boss. In Italy, at the time, the Penal Code permitted rapists to marry their victims and thereby negate the crime, which was considered an offense against society rather than the person herself. Director Damiano Damiani went on to make a film based on Franca Viola’s story, La moglie più bella, in 1970.

Starring in the cast of The Girl from Tomorrow, we find the protagonist of the short film Claudia Gusmano, Fabrizio Ferracane (seen at this year’s Venice Film Festival in The Inner Cage [+lee también:
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entrevista: Laura Bispuri
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The Girl from Tomorrow is produced by Virginia Valsecchi on behalf of Capri Entertainment, in co-production with French firm Medset Film and Tenderstories, in collaboration with Vision Distribution and RAI Cinema. The film enjoys support from the Italian Ministry for Culture (MIC) and will be distributed in Italy and elsewhere by Vision Distribution.