ZEN SUL GHIACCIO SOTTILE

ZEN IN THE ICE RIFT

By Margherita FERRI

ARTICOLTURE - as PROD

First film - Completed 2018


Festivals
& Awards

Venice - Biennale 2018
Biennale College Cinema
Rome FF 2018
Alice nella città - fuoriconcorso
Frameline 2019
honorable mention best first feature
buff 2019
Church of Sweden award
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • First film, LGBT, Drama
    • Countries
    • ITALY
    • Languages
    • ITALIAN
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 94 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Margherita FERRI
    • Writer(s)
    • Margherita FERRI
    • Producer(s)
    • Chiara GALLONI (ARTICOLTURE), Ivan OLGIATI (ARTICOLTURE)
    • Synopsis
    • Maia, called ZEN, a rowdy yet solitary 16-year-old tomboy, lives in a small village on top of the rough and beautiful Italian Apennines. She’s the only girl of the local ice hockey-team and she is constantly bullied by her teammates for her masculine attitude. When Vanessa - the beautiful and bewildered girlfriend of the team captain - runs away from home and hides in Maia’s family lodge, Maia feels free to trust someone for the first time. Led by the need to break away from the roles that the small community has forced them to play, Maia and Vanessa embark on a journey of self-discovery: an exploration of their gender identity and sexuality, liquid and restless like the troubled time of youth.