Tiger Boy

6/13/2026

Nine year old "Matteo" (Simone Santini) is driving his mother (Lidia Vitale) bonkers. He has become obsessed with a wrestler called "The Tiger" and has made himself a facemask which he steadfastly refuses to take off. Even his school principal (Francesco Foti) can't persuade him to take it off - and it quickly appears to us that this is a man who can be quite "persuasive". When "Matteo" watches his hero win his latest fight against a far larger opponent - think David and Goliath in lycra, that victory seems to empower him and we begin to see that the mask isn't just a childish fad - but instead it has an altogether more significant purpose. We do get some clues as to the more sinister plot of this drama, and I thought Santini handled that really quite strongly. By the very nature of the un