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Barriera
In Barriera, everyone’s fate is written in their blood. And you can’t change that. Sixteen-year-old Yasin lives in Barriera, a tough neighbourhood on the outskirts of Turin. He’s caught between his first love and a brother who’s just been released from prison, between who he wants to be and who the world expects him to be. Malik, his brother, is trying…
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Grimm Alphabet
One morning when they woke up, brothers Jacob and Wilhem found themselves transformed into two large birds. It was winter. The snow was deep. They had to fly to get wood. They scraped away the snow with their little paws and found a golden key. They thought that where there was a key there must also be a lock, and digging into the ground they…
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The Sofa
Every Thursday, on the day of the general tidying up of the house, when the time comes to move the sofa, something unexpected happens: a sea of objects re-emerges like a lost treasure. So while big hands are folding clothes and dusting cupboards, little hands are taking care of the monster hidden under the sofa!
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The Tree, the Cloud and the Little Girl
It’s late at night, the moon is shining and the cicadas are singing: and I cannot sleep. My brother’s bed is empty, because he’s sleeping in hospital tonight. And the Cloud is back on my head. A little girl, her grandmother’s house by the lake, a big old tree that will have to be cut down because it is too…
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AFK
It’s been years since Giovanni last got out of his room. Day and night, he is shut in his room, his eyes to the monitor, earphones on all the time, a videogame match after another. He weighs 130 kilos and knows that his parents call him “the Problem”. Emilia, his older sister, is not a “problem” at all: she looks and…
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