Sicilian Ghost Story

In a little Sicilian village at the edge of a forest, Giuseppe, a boy of 13, vanishes. Luna, his classmate who loves him, refuses to accept his mysterious disappearance. She rebels against the silence and complicity that surround her, and to find him she descends into the dark world which has swallowed him up and which has a lake as its mysterious entrance.

Cast

Julia Jedlikowska

as Luna

Gaetano Fernandez

as Giuseppe

Corinne Musallari

as Loredana

Andrea Falzone

as Nino

Federico Finocchiaro

as Calogero

Lorenzo Curcio

as Mariano

Vincenzo Amato

as Padre di Luna

Sabine Timoteo

as Madre di Luna

Filippo Luna

as U'Nanu

Baldassare Tre Re

as Venatura

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