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Sweetheart

Original title: Gioia mia
German title: Sweetheart
Italy, 2025

Director: Spampinato, Margherita
Production company: Yagi Media
Age recommendation: 9 years and up
Length: 90 min.
Film genre: Feature film

Synopsis:
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.

Festivals:
Rome IFF 2025, Locarno IFF 2025, Thessaloniki IFF 2025, Busan IFF 2025, Cine Junior Val-de-Marne 2026

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Fandango (IT)

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