Short Skin

One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness...

Directed by Duccio Chiarini

Produced by La Règle du Jeu, Asmara Films

A comedic coming-of-age story about a teenage boy's struggle with physical insecurity and sexual anxiety, balancing humor with genuine emotional vulnerability.

Ever since he was a child, the seventeen-years-old Edoardo has suffered from a malformation of the foreskin that stops him from masturbating and makes him insecure and ill at ease with girls. Shut up in his sexless microcosm, Edoardo reacts with irritation to the pressures of the outside world, which do nothing but exacerbate his insecurity. Forced against his will to emerge from the shadows in which he has hidden for years, Edoardo will initially try to solve his problem by clumsy stratagems before finding, at last, the courage to face his own fears.