XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin
For the 16th year, XPOSED shows film by, with and about the queer community
For the 16th year, XPOSED shows film by, with and about the queer community
In a sedate corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, his life unravels.
Sometimes a pregnancy begins with two beating hearts. But not both always make it to birth.
This phenomenon, known as the vanishing twin syndrome, often remains invisible: the mother may not notice it, medicine barely records it, yet the surviving twin carries it within for a lifetime.
The documentary film Per Due, written by Elisabetta Giuseppina Zecca and directed by Stefano Filippi, tells this silent experience with delicacy and depth. It is a journey through images, testimonies, and reflections that touches on themes of prenatal memory, invisible bonds, unspoken grief, and the possibility of transforming all this into awareness and reconciliation.
Inspired by the book The Vanishing Twin Syndrome by Alfred and Bettina Austermann, therapists who have worked on this subject for many years, the film opens a space of listening and recognition that concerns far more people than one might think.
Because behind a feeling of emptiness, an unexplained nostalgia, or difficulties in relationships, there may be the trace of a sibling who was never born.
"Per Due" is not only a film to watch: it is an experience to live together.
