Girl in Flight

"Almost 11-year-old" Silvia's home life is dominated by her mother's depression. Hoping for a break, Silvia pleads for a family trip to Rome. But when her father backs down yet again, she takes off on her own from their home outside Florence to fulfill her dream. Fearless and open to everything, she falls in with 13-year-old Emina, a Gypsy girl who reluctantly takes Silvia under her wing. And so the adventure begins. In a story that confronts such universal themes as the struggles of family life disrupted by mental illness, as well as a child's innocence in relation to an outcast ethnic group, Girl in Flight is a film of compassion and beauty. (Woodstock Film Festival)