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Emanuel is a teenage girl on the verge of turning 18. Never having met her mother, dead at childbirth, she lives with her supportive father and his new wife. When young Linda moves in next door, she quickly turns into a sort of mother figure to Emanuel, who offers to babysit her baby. Everything seems to go well until Emanuel finds out her neighbor has serious mental issues – and that her baby is actually a doll. However, instead of keeping her distance, Emanuel starts nurturing her neighbor’s fantasy. Official Selection at the Sundance Film Festival 2013.
Francesca Gregorini
Born in Italy, in 1968. She graduated at Brown University. She sold screenplays for HBO and Paramount Pictures before debuting as a feature film director (alongside Tatiana von Furstenberg) with Tanner Hall (2009), an autobiographically-tinged drama regarding a boarding school for girls which made the official selection at the Toronto Film Festival.
