played by Michele Placido, has never left his Italian mountain village

died a long time ago, and their only child, Valerio, dreaming of other ways of

Valerio, who is sick, calls for help, it is his face that speaks for him

of competition at the 40th Torino Film Festival before its Italian release on Dec

protagonist jumps on the first train to Brussels, without even having a valid ID, to

will instead be one of discovery of the world his son had built for himself

in which lively Lyse (Angelica Kazankova), Valerio’s 12-year-old daughter, whom Orlando didn’t even

overdoing it, the strength of feelings infused in it makes this “modern tale,” as it

charge of the film was there from the start: Orlando is the name of the

is a director who knows exactly how to tell the story of two seemingly contrasting