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VENICE 2024 Giornate degli Autori

Francesca Pirani • Director of Vakhim

"I don't reveal the events in advance; the viewer is by my side, as if it were all happening at that very moment"

by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENEZIA 2024: The Italian director talks about her highly personal documentary, which follows the journey of a four-year-old boy who was adopted in Cambodia and arrived in Italy

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(In Italian)

Italian director Francesca Pirani talks to us about her highly personal documentary Vakhim [+see also:
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, which follows the journey of a four-year-old boy who was adopted in Cambodia and arrived in Italy in 2008, the reunion with his sister, and the moving encounter with their mother in their homeland. The film has been presented in Venetian Nights, part of the 21st Giornate degli Autori of the Venice Film Festival.

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