Chiara Toffoletto

The discovery of an audiovisual archive brings to light traces of a marine biologist who mysteriously vanished in the Po Delta. Through footage, photographs, documents, and an encounter with a peculiar local girl, the research she was conducting on the blue crab comes to light—a scientific investigation that gradually transforms into a reflection on change, adaptation, and the fragile boundary between the human and the animal. What if her disappearance was the result of the very research she had undertaken?

Three young filmmakers have a film project that revisits the history of the Resistance from a female perspective, looking beyond historical reconstruction to see what remains of it today. They will be filming in Bussoleno, in the Susa Valley, and while they work, they will in turn be filmed by another group of filmmakers, including Bruno Bigoni: this will not be the background to their film, but rather a film that will itself recount that creative process.

Nina and her two friends share trepidations and desires, amid adolescent games and self-discovery. As the girls engage in ever new challenges, Nina immerses herself in her own hesitations.

The discovery of an audiovisual archive brings to light traces of a marine biologist who mysteriously vanished in the Po Delta. Through footage, photographs, documents, and an encounter with a peculiar local girl, the research she was conducting on the blue crab comes to light—a scientific investigation that gradually transforms into a reflection on change, adaptation, and the fragile boundary between the human and the animal. What if her disappearance was the result of the very research she had undertaken?

The discovery of an audiovisual archive brings to light traces of a marine biologist who mysteriously vanished in the Po Delta. Through footage, photographs, documents, and an encounter with a peculiar local girl, the research she was conducting on the blue crab comes to light—a scientific investigation that gradually transforms into a reflection on change, adaptation, and the fragile boundary between the human and the animal. What if her disappearance was the result of the very research she had undertaken?

An omnibus film made under the creative eye of Radu Jude, with the help of Cătălin Cristuțiu and the support of the Ticino Film Commission, RSI and Majid Foundation. Eleven directors from all over the world worked with the archive material provided by RSI to create their own films, which merged into this collective work that reflects on the meaning of images from the past to give them a new light.