The Reggio Emilia festival turns twenty and marks the occasion by devoting its 2025 edition to a reflection on that very age. In a person's biography, twenty is the shadow line, the end of innocence and at the same time the taste of freedom and independence.

At twenty one can still become anything, but one can also find oneself alone, cut off from the world and from the family inheritance. It is like sailing an ocean of possibility without a precise map: immense expectations, personal and social, great dreams and enormous ideal challenges, where every day may be a chance to discover who one is.