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The Girl Flew

2021 film directed by Wilma Labate

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ116051418 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Girl Flew (Italian: La ragazza ha volato) is a 2021 Italian-Slovenian drama film directed by Wilma Labate. Labate wrote the screenplay with Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenzo.

The film premiered in the Horizons Extra sidebar at the 78th edition of the Venice Film Festival and was released in Italian cinemas on 23 June 2022.

Plot

Nadia is a friendless and apathetic woman who lives a monotonous life. One day, she accompanies Brando to his house, thinking that she'll finally have a new friend. However, Brando has an ulterior motive, which changes the trajectory of Nadia's life.

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“The Girl Flew” enters the record as 2021 film directed by Wilma Labate. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Girl, Flew and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2021. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Girl, Flew and film.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q116051418. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Girl Flew” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.