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Poster of The Holy Boy

The Holy Boy

Original title: La valle dei sorrisi

If we could rid ourselves of all our pains, would we still be ourselves?

2025 · 2 h 02 · Italy, Slovenia · Italian

  • Drama
  • Fantasy
  • Thriller

A PE teacher moves to a isolated mountain village where the people appear to live in unshakeable serenity, but soon stumbles across a disturbing ritual. Once a week, the locals are freed of their pain by a lonely boy born with the power to heal one's soul just by hugging them. Trying to rescue him from this madness, the man unleashes his dark side.

Directed by
Paolo Strippoli
Written by
Paolo Strippoli, Jacopo del Giudice, Milo Tissone

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