Twin Flower

The girl, Anna, is 16 years old and highly vulnerable as she travels the sunbaked roads of Sardinia. But when she meets Basim, also 16 and also troubled, she begins to feel the safety that companionship provides. Fiore Gemello recounts the couple’s adventures with great sensitivity and tenderness. Basim and Anna need each other: a refugee from West Africa, he wants to make his way to the north of Europe. Anna requires protection from the man who will chase her down to keep his secret from becoming public. Along the way, the two of them dip in and out of contact with the world, hiding away, trying to construct a new life together despite having been brought together by forces beyond their control. (Toronto International Film Festival)