Longlasting Youth

Longlasting Youth is the story of a family that drifts apart and a house that is left empty following a personal loss. Yet it is also the story of how that house and that family are put back together again, thanks to the presence – and influence – of new lives. Nora, Andrea, Nino and their father Pietro make a courageous effort to react to their loss and disorientation, seeking new worlds, new loves, and new reasons for living, outside familial confines. They are surrounded by Italy’s newest citizens, men and women in their twenties and thirties, absorbed by their jobs or lack thereof, their elusive sense of responsibility and morality, and the wars we fight without knowing why, encountering peoples fleeing poverty who ask us tough questions. This marathon series is split into four chapters: a story that seeks to tell us who we are, what we have become, and what we don’t want to be. On the way, this family that numbly hangs together, and finally manages to stay together, becomes the symbol of an entire nation out to find a new face. —Romacinemafest