THE DEN

LA TANA

By Beatrice BALDACCI

LUMEN FILMS - as PROD

First film - Completed 2021

A boy from the country, shy and naïf, falls in love with a mysterious and violent girl that introduces him to pain, building a relationship that will make them face together the secret she’s hiding: her mother’s illness.

Festivals
& Awards

Alice nella Città 2021
Raffaella Fioretta Prize for Italian Cinema
Venice International Film Festival 2021
Hollywood Foreign Press Associacion (HFPA) Award
Fabrique du Cinema Award 2021
Best Italian First Feature nomination
Porto Femme 2022
Best International Feature Films
International IMAGO Film Festival 2022
"Amarcord" Best Italian Film Award
Adriatic Film Festival 2022
Best Feature Film Debut Award
Sehsuchte 2022
Best Feature Film
Nastri d'Argento 2022
Nomination Best Story
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • First film, Female director, Drama
    • Countries
    • ITALY
    • Languages
    • ITALIAN
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Beatrice BALDACCI
    • Producer(s)
    • Andrea GORI (Lumen Films), Aurora ALMA BARTIROMO (Lumen Films)
    • Synopsis
    • In the summer of his eighteenth birthday, Giulio has decided not to leave and will spend his holidays at home, helping his parents with the work in the vegetable garden. In the next house, uninhabited for some time, a twenty-year-old girl arrives. Giulio would like to meet her, but Lia is grumpy and introverted.
      One day Giulio is swimming in the lake and Lia tries to drown him as a joke. Giulio is a good boy, sensitive and polite. Attracted by her, he starts thinking about her day and night. Lia initiates him into strange and increasingly dangerous games.
      However, the girl does not talk about herself. She says she has come alone to spend the holidays in the old family house, where she has not been since she was a child.
      Lia, however, is hiding secrets and does not allow anyone to step into her old abandoned house.