Vermiglio (2024)
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Director: Maura Delpero Run Time: 119 min. Release Year: 2024 Language: Italian
Starring: Giuseppe De Domenico, Martina Scrinzi, Orietta Notari, Roberta Rovelli, Tommaso Ragno
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Language: Italian, Ladin
About the film:
Winner – Grand Jury Prize – 2024 Venice International Film Festival. The lush and breathtaking beauty of the Alps, filmed with painterly grace under natural light from frigid winter to redemptive spring, provides the physical and emotional backdrop for Vermiglio, Maura Delpero’s visionary film, which won the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.
This singular portrait of a sprawling family, set in the small, mountainous village of Vermiglio during the waning days of WWII, follows a series of dramatic, consequential events after the arrival of a taciturn Sicilian soldier (Giuseppe De Domenico), who hides out in town after deserting the army. While there, the soldier develops a romance with the family’s eldest daughter, Lucia (Martina Scrinzi). Vermiglio shows the lives of a provincial family in a remote village suspended in time by the customs of a fading era. Conjuring stories from her own family’s past, Delpero creates a deeply personal and human tale that recalls the great neorealist movement in Italian cinema, but through Lucia’s perspective Vermiglio feels distinct and novel. Italy’s Official Selection for the 2025 Academy Awards.
About the filmmaker:
Maura Delpero is a film director and literature teacher. Her first feature film Teachers (2008), won the “Ucca Award” – Best documentary from Italiana.doc and the “Avanti!” Award at the Torino FF. It was also the winner of the “Martini Award” as the year’s best documentary. The script of her second feature film Nadea And Sveta (2012) won the Special Jury Mention at the Solinas Awards (the most important script contest in Italy). Nadea And Sveta (2012) premiered at the Torino FF where it was awarded with the “Cipputi Award” and the Special Jury Mention of the “Ucca Award”. The film was nominated for the David di Donatello 2013 (the Italian Oscars). Meternal (2019) was her next feature film.
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