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Everyone has their own chimera, something they try to attain but never manage to find. For the band of tombaroli, thieves of ancient Etruscan tombs and hidden archaeological wonders in 1980s Tuscany, chimera means salvation from work and the dream of easy wealth. For Arthur (Josh O’Connor, The Crown), chimera looks like the woman he lost, Beniamina (Isabella Rossellini). To find her, Arthur challenges the invisible, searches far and wide and goes inside the earth – in search of the door to the afterlife related in myths. In a magical realist journey between the living and the dead, the intertwined destinies of these characters unfold.

The leading figure of Italian auteur cinema, ALICE ROHRWACHER wrote and directed her first feature film Heavenly Body in 2011. It screened at the Directors’ Fortnight and won the Nastro d’Argento. In 2014, she returned to Cannes, this time in Competition, with her second feature The Wonders, which won the Grand Prix. Competing again in Cannes in 2018 with Happy as Lazzaro, her writing earned her the Best Screenplay Award.