Laghat

Andrea is twenty-one, and by rights should already be running the family antiques business his father, Mario, built — a father whose grip on him is as firm as his reputation is severe. What Andrea actually wants, and has for years, is horses.

A chance encounter with Tony, once a trainer at the San Rossore riding school, hands him a way back in. The horse he’s given, Laghat, is a thoroughbred with real ability and a serious eye condition that has kept every other rider away. Training him becomes Andrea’s own training too — in patience, in trust, in standing up to a father who has never once yielded.

Freely inspired by Enrico Querci’s novel Laghat, il cavallo normalmente diverso, the film follows a young man and an animal nobody else wanted through a season that has less to do with winning than with learning to be believed in — Andrea’s, Laghat’s, and, through Giulia, his own capacity to let someone in.