Paternal Leave

Release Date: 2025-05-15

Rating: ⭐ 6.964/10 (14 votes)

Genres: Drama

Overview: Alone and angry, a teenager travels to the coast of northern Italy to meet her biological father. On the beaches of Emilia-Romagna’s Riviera, deserted in winter, the girl meets him for the first time. Their encounter is fraught with questions, longing and conflict, as they struggle for acceptance, love, and honesty. It’s a difficult and complicated reckoning between the choices of the past and its repercussions on the present.

Production: The Match Factory, Wildside, Fremantle Italia, Vision Distribution, RAI Cinema, Sky, Emilia-Romagna Film Commission, DFFF, Film-Fernsehen-Autoren-Team GmbH, Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM), Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film