THE PROPERTIES OF METALS - Official HD Trailer - Only In Cinemas

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Set in an idyllic small village in the Italian mountains in the 1970s, writer/director Antonio Bigini's family drama follows Pietro (wonderful newcomer Martino Zaccara), a child raised by his surly widowed father (Antonio Burl). While Pietro spends his days playing with other local children and his younger brother, his father attempts to unburden the family from their debts.
One day Pietro begins to manifest mysterious gifts - he can bend metal simply with his mind. Soon word spreads beyond their small village, but people are divided in their belief of him. When a university professor starts visiting Pietro to study him, the experiments will lead the child towards an invisible world where the unquestionable laws of physics collide with the deepest human desires.
Inspired by the 1970s televised performances of Israeli-British illusionist Uri Gellar, who appeared to bend keys and spoons with a single touch, and the phenomenon of Minigellers, children who imitated Gellar’s illusions, this is a poetic film in which hope and belief collide.