Sweetheart (first feature)

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Sweetheart (Gioia mia)

Sweetheart (Gioia mia)

original title:

Gioia mia

cast:

Aurora Quattrocchi, Marco Fiore, Camille Dugay, Martina Ziami, Clara Salvo, Renata Sajeva, Concetta Ingrassia, Giuseppina Cardella, Giuseppina Cammareri, Rosaria Oddo, Gaspare Gruppuso

cinematography:

set design:

Marinora Ferrandes

production:

world sales:

country:

Italy

year:

2025

film run:

90'

format:

colour

status:

In post-production (23/03/2025)

Nico, a lively, stubborn, and cheeky boy raised in a secular family in a modern, technological, and hyper-connected world, is forced to spend the summer in Sicily, staying with his grumpy and devoutly religious elderly aunt.
She lives alone in an ancient mansion filled with legends and superstitions, without Wi-Fi, appliances, or any form of modern technology—a place completely frozen in time.
The aunt receives him with annoyance and tries to forcefully pull him into her world, inhabited by angels and spirits and dominated by a mystical sense of religion.
The clash between modernity and the past, reason and faith, speed and slowness marks the beginning of their stormy relationship. Yet, little by little, a deep bond grows—one that neither of them knew they needed.