The Story of Frank and Nina

Local title
Franki ja Nina lugu
Original title
La storia del Frank e della Nina
Director
Paola Randi
Country
Italy, Switzerland
Year
2024
Festival
28th Black Nights Film Festival
Programme
Best of Festivals
Genre
drama, romantic comedy
Subject
familial relationships, love, abuse, coming of age, youth

Three Milanese teenagers grapple with reality and search for their place in the world.

Carlo, a quiet graffiti artist known as “Gollum”, and his inseparable friend Frank face a life change when they meet Nina, a young mom escaping a forced marriage. To stay close to Nina, Frank decides to join her ex-bridegroom’s gang. In the end, the trio leads to a plan to leave Milan together with Nina and her baby, forming an unconventional and united family.

“The Story of Frank and Nina” is a coming-of-age novel for dreamers that comes from the desire to tell the story of my city: Milan. Because Milan is a city of dreamers. And the three protagonists are almost adults, searching for their place in the world, for freedom, for the affirmation of their uniqueness, for their way of living reality and relationships, for an anarchic love. The heroes of this story are the kids, their dreams and the city. A silent narrator, a revolutionary realist and an inveterate dreamer in a Milan caressed by the fog, distant as a desire, romantic and complex, hidden and irresistible, in pursuit of the future. La storia del Frank e della Nina is the story of three kids fighting against reality. (Director’s Statement)

The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival where it won the Lanterna Magica Award.

Director
Paola Randi
Screenwriter
Paola Randi, Valia Santella
Cast
Gabriele Monti, Samuele Teneggi, Ludovica Nasti, Marco Bonadei, Bruno Bozzetto, Anna Ferzetti, Margherita Di Rauso, Alessandra Casella, Giuseppe Dave Seke
Producer
Domenico Procacci, Laura Paolucci, Peter Luisi, Louis Luisi
Cinematographer
Matteo Carlesimo
Music
Zeno Gabaglio
World sales
Fandango Sales
Runtime
Language
Italian
Subtitles
English
Other festivals
Venice
Director
Paola Randi

Screenings

8th Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening010802 / Franki ja Nina lugu
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
Saal Kino Sõprus
Screening053102 / Franki ja Nina lugu
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
Hall 1 Kino Artis
Screening172101 / Franki ja Nina lugu
SubtitlesEnglish
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