Coming-of-age and gender-issues in contemporary Italy: With "Prisma", the maker of the Italian "Skam" spin-off ventures into similar territory as Luca Guadagnino before him with "We Are Who We Are".

Totally committed to the principles of the neorealist film traditions of their homeland, the makers of the Italian prime original "Prisma" touch the roots of today's youth somewhere between "Euphoria," "Skam" and "We Are Who We Are." For this, Bessegato and Urciuolo don't go to picturesque Rome, but to the south of the metropolis drained of swamps, where the identical twins Marco and Andrea (Mattia Carano) struggle with the limitations of supposed gender identities and growing up in general. Around each of them exists a world all their own, with its own questions about masculinity and gender. And "Prisma" approaches this respective environment with great empathy, a lot of courage for diversity, but without a raised forefinger.