original title:
La festa del ritorno
directed by:
cast:
screenplay:
Gualtiero Rosella, Annalisa Ruoppolo, Manuela Tovo, from the novel with the same title by Carmine Abate
cinematography:
editing:
set design:
costume design:
music:
Elisabetta Serio
producer:
production:
Alba Produzioni, Gorilla Group, Leon Film, supported by Ministero della Cultura, with the support of Regione lazio, CNC, Fondazione Calabria Film Commission
distribution:
world sales:
country:
Italy/France
year:
2023
film run:
103'
format:
colour
aspect ratio:
2.39:1
release date:
13/11/2023
festivals & awards:
Seventies. In the unprecedented setting of an arbëresh community (the Albanians of Italy) in a small town nestled in the hills of Ionian Calabria, Marco, a thirteen-year-old boy, finds himself having to manage a complicated family situation. By chance he discovers that her sister Elisa, a university student in Cosenza, has a reaction with a married man much older than her.