Where shame burns, can hope grow? The first feeling is all in that inexpressible number, K14f9an abbreviation for the even shorter life of a girl who died in a shipwreck in Croton, the only clue being female, 9 years old.

Hope and a gram of healthy disobedience is the salt of other little girls, even if they grew up in the war, the interpreters of the short film. Studentsnominated for an Oscar and directed by Alice Rohrwacher, the protagonist of our cover. All his words are on the side of the girls, because even the glamor of the Big Night, which, after the pandemic, returns to its splendor on March 12 at the legendary Dolby Theater, does not drown out the power of current events. And after all, for 95 years of life, the Academy has never limited itself to a fun game of clothes and fashion, described in our oscar specialalso full of many interviews, even the Walk of Fame can not escape the scratch of reality, and this year there is already a surprise, Nothing new on the western fronta merciless and very human film, such real faces of children slaughtered in the trenches, no stars, unknown soldiers buried in a wheat field, like every day in the hell of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

Flying over the Elvis legend “the pelvis” reimagined by Baz Luhrmann, the girls are also strong at the Oscars, the busy life of an Asian stands out among the actresses. Michelle Yeohpioneer of martial arts in Hollywood, and the approval of Cate Blanchett, the best translator in Tar.

Our special edition of the Oscars also has room for two failed artists, an actress Andrew Riseboroughalcoholic mother off-scheme in Leslie, and director Sarah Polley, author of Women Speak to Choose, a title that knows its stuff. And this time they were not noticed, but there are women in the open gaps of the Oscars, and how. First of all, these are girls abandoned by the force of seven waves of social, climatic and medical storms that no one knows how to tame. They are here in the name of all the little girls buried in hijabs, starving and on the run or mass poisoned to close girls’ schools. Irish film Quiet girlcandidate and already in theaters since February 16, speaks about everything with empathic power: her introverted protagonist Katya is nine years old, the age at which Kr14f9 crashed, but she has learned to hide from adults and parents, to cope with discomfort, resisting in ikikomori mode and yet thrive in your own silence.

Alice Rohrwacher in these pages he states that he “wants to create more and more for children. Too much inattention to what is being done for them. Childhood is forgotten in Italy. It’s irresistible Pupils they are the first signal to rethink the roots of the future. Little girls, life, freedom: the world will or will not have them.

The next issue of Elle is waiting for you on newsstands from 16 March.

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