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"a delicate summer story" - IL GIORNALE
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| PLOT: |
Nico is a lively, irritable, and impertinent boy, raised in a secular family in a modern, technological, and hyper-connected world. He is forced to spend the summer in Sicily with an elderly, unmarried, and very religious aunt who lives alone in an old building full of legends and superstitions, without Wi-Fi, without any kind of technology, completely outside time.
The aunt welcomes him with annoyance, trying to forcefully integrate him into a world populated by angels and spirits, dominated by a magical sense of religion.
The clash between modernity and the past, between reason and religion, between speed and slowness, marks the beginning of their stormy relationship. Yet, little by little, a deep bond is formed, one that neither one knew they needed. |
| CAST: |
Aurora Quattrocchi, Marco Fiore, Camille Dugay, Martina Ziami, Clara Salvo, Renata Sajeva, Concetta Ingrassia, Giuseppina Cardella, Giuseppina Cammareri, Rosaria Oddo, Gaspare Gruppuso |
| YEAR: |
2025 |
| LENGTH: |
90 min. |
| GENRE: |
Drama |
| AWARDS: |
• Nominated Best New Director, Best Actress (Aurora Quattrocchi), Best Original Screenplay, Best Casting, Best Producer: David di Donatello |
| RATING: |
USA: no rating |
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| TIMES: |
Cleveland: March 26, 7:00 p.m. |
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Pittsburgh: March 27, 7:00 p.m. |
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Boulder: March 31, 5:00 p.m. |
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Detroit: April 4, 5:00 p.m. |
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St. Louis: April 4, 7:30 p.m. |
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Kansas City: April 6, 6:00 p.m |
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Chicago: April 8, 7:00 p.m. |
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Milwaukee: April 10, 8:00 p.m. |
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Phoenix: April 11, 1:00 p.m |
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Indianapolis: April 11, 3:00 p.m. |
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Boston: April 23, 7:00 p.m. |
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Memphis: April 24, 7:00 p.m. |
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Detroit: April 25, 3:00 p.m. |
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Portland: May 16, 5:45 p.m. |
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Please note, while the trailer may not include subtitles, the film will be screened with English subtitles. |
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| DIRECTOR'S NOTES: |
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Margherita Spampinato, born in Palermo in 1979, graduateed in 2003 from the University of Rome “La Sapienza." She worked as editing secretary for more than 30 films, and in 2009 she filmed her first short Tommasina.
Regarding her film, Spampinato stated: "The idea for Gioia mia stems from my childhood memories. I grew up in Rome in a secular and rational family, without too many rules. The atmosphere at home was very different from what I found in Sicily, where every summer I spent my holidays at the home of my elderly spinster aunts, my grandmother's cousins. There I breathed a deeply religious atmosphere, but also a magical and superstitious one; they were convinced of the existence of spirits, and this was incredibly powerful for me. They took me to church, made me take naps, and taught me good manners. I loved both dimensions very much: the Roman and the Sicilian, that contrast between logical thinking and intuition, between science and mystery, has stayed with me and has become the heart of the film". |
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| DISTRIBUTOR: Fandango, Viale Gorizia, 19, Rome |
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TWENTY-SECOND EDITION 
