Film Commission Torino Piemonte

"Il mio anno stranissimo" is a journey into the teenage world: the lockdown is a moment of stasis, of course, but also of discovery and new perspectives.

Before closing time, I met many middle school students to talk about my book "Ombre che camminano", a ghost story centered on that season of life. Well, talking with those kids has enriched me much more than it has happened to me in years of making presentations to adults.

At that age one is no longer a child but one is not yet a boy/girl: we call them little boys/girls, and it is curious that we need a diminutive to represent them. Such a delicate phase of transformation was and still is essentially experienced in loneliness: a unique opportunity to grasp their feelings and hear their voices, the least listened to in recent months. I believe that looking at this dramatic and complex time through the point of view of those between 10 and 14 can help everyone think about the future and how to make it better: a great call to social and civil responsibility. Starting from a few guidelines (just a track to help them structure their thoughts) I will listen to their stories with attention and respect, and I will try to tell them with a creative freedom that will avoid any theatricalization, so as not to influence their confessions and maintain a tone vivid and light: a heterogeneous atmosphere, a bit magical… more real and pure than that of adults.