Le bambine

1997: eight-year-old Linda drifts away from her wealthy grandmother’s Swiss villa with her carefree mother Eva. In Italy, she meets Azzurra and Marta. A summer bond unites the three girls in a gang formed to protect each other, their youth, and their freedom. This colorful coming-of-age tale, shifting from lighthearted to dramatic, follows the misadventures of the three girls over the course of an intense summer in a suburb of Ferrara. With a pop aesthetic, an almost square screen format, and a restless, constantly moving camera, MOSQUITOES draws on the lives of its directors, sisters Valentina and Nicole Bertani, and their own experiences. (Diego Lerer, micropsiacine.com)