Perché sono un genio! Lorenza Mazzetti

Lorenza Mazzetti's "genius" resides in her fantastic and profound outlook, which she experiences and uses to tell her extraordinary story and to create the many works that derive from this. Adopted as a little girl by the Einstein family, later exterminated by the SS before her eyes, in the early 1950s she went to London in order to forget. She managed to enter the well-known Slade School of Fine Art, having asked to be accepted "Because I'm a genius!" - she didn't know what else to say. She steals a movie camera, becomes a director, and shoots K, a film about the person she feels closest to: Kafka. She establishes Free Cinema and revolutionizes British film together with Lindsay Anderson, Kael Reisz, and Tony Richardson. Having returned back to Italy, she finds Paola, her twin sister. She remembers the tragedy she had repressed, and so writes Il cielo cade, the funny yet tragic diary of a little girl who talks about fascism, the war, and what happened to her. In the film we meet this woman, who still exhibits all the freedom of childhood, through her memories, animations of her paintings, life today, her friends, and the witnesses to her story. (Venice International Film Festival)