Name: Linfa
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2018-10-22
Duration: 52 min
Rating: 8.8
Cast: Silvia Calderoni, Erica Galli, Lola Kola

Linfa grants us a trip into the underground scene flourished in Rome, Italy. It focuses on untold stories of women and transexual women that are musicians and performers, on the difficult but exciting life of those who choose art as a lifestyle, on the omnipresence of music, on the relationships favored by all belonging to the same neighborhood. But above all the film is a hymn to the freedom to be what we want beyond the stereotyped imposed by society and about the freedom to do what we like and gives lifeblood (linfa) to our lifes. Linfa is an important document about what's going on in the eternal city below the surface of its historical and traditional assets. It is not a film of local interest, because it brings into play universal feelings and aspirations.

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