In recent years, Bellocchio has led filmmaking workshops each summer in his hometown of Bobbio. For much of the past decade, the director’s own contribution to the workshop consisted in making short films about a girl named Elena, played by his daughter Elena Bellocchio, and her family, made up of a mixture of actors and of other members of the Bellocchio family. The culmination of this fascinating semi-autobiographical work—which in many ways prefigures Linklater’s Boyhood—is the feature film Sorelle Mai, in which Elena grows from five to thirteen, raised by her mother, a busy actress, and her uncle. Just as Bellocchio’s films ceaselessly interweave the personal and the political, here different fictional registers blend, with snippets of the filmmaker’s past work serving as fascinating commentary on the life of this unconventional family, even as Sorelle Mai itself acts as a valentine to the beauty of the Emilia-Romagna region.