Billy was a child prodigy who had invented and hosted a successful music podcast at nine. He is now 19, lives with his eccentric mother, is secretly in love with a girl, only visits children aged between 8 and 12 and does not know what to do with his life.
Acting
Giuggioli's frozen panic—smiling while drowning.
Direction
Mazzacurati lets silences scream.
Director
Emilia Mazzacurati
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title's lunar cycle reference suggests Billy's emotional orbit: circling the same childhood gravity, never breaking free.
This was Mazzacurati's debut—she cast Giuggioli after seeing him in a student short about competitive yo-yoing. The energy tracks.
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