Gioia Mia

We are getting ready for the vacation, with this Italian crowd-pleaser about the moving bond that the lively Nico and his traditional great-aunt Gela develop during a Sicilian summer. The temperamental Nico has to spend the summer in Sicily with his great-aunt Gela. She lives there in an old-fashioned apartment without modern gadgets, there is not even Wi-Fi. The arrival of the lively boy disrupts her daily rhythm, but gradually a moving bond develops and it becomes a summer after which nothing will ever be the same. A heartwarming and tender film with an irresistible duo. The bond between the modern boy and the traditional Sicilian grandmother feels completely authentic. A warm ode to the universal need to get closer to each other, across generation(al differences). Regisseur Margherita Spampinato shows herself with this beautiful debut to be a promising newcomer in contemporary Italian cinema. 'Gioia Mia' was already awarded two prizes at the Locarno Film Festival. Director and screenplay: Margherita Spampinato / Cast: Marco Fiore, Aurora Quattrocchi, Martina Ziami / Italy, 2025 / Italian spoken, NL/FR subtitled / Duration: 1h30 Press "‘Gioia Mia’ is a little heartbreaker." - Trouw "Two opposites growing towards each other, that story has been told before. But director Margherita Spampinato, who based the film on her own childhood memories, avoids the clichés." - De Volkskrant Read more Filmkrant - Gioia mia: All windows open