Short Skin
A Film by Duccio Chiarini
2014 - Italy - Comedy/Drama - 1.85 DCP - 86 min.
with Matteo Creatini & Francesca Agostini
Language: Italian
Produced by Babak Jalali & Duccio Chiarini
It’s summer and everybody seems to talk only about sex. Edoardo is insecure and awkward with girls: he never told anybody even his best friend Arturo that since birth his foreskin is too narrow preventing him from having sex. But when you are 17, love is in the air: Edoardo will have to find his way.
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