Familia
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2025
May 29 - June 5, 2025
Nominated for eight Donatello Awards, this harrowing, white-knuckle family portrait and meditation on the terrible appeal of political extremism follows a young man who has grown up in the shadow of his violently abusive father and finds himself falling in with a group of ultra-right-wing skinheads.
A harrowing, white-knuckle family portrait and meditation on the terrible appeal of political extremism, Francesco Costabile’s (The Code of Silence, Open Roads 2022) latest adapts Luigi Celeste’s memoir Non sarà sempre così, a staggering account of the author’s falling in with a group of ultra-right-wing skinheads. Luigi (Francesco Gheghi, winner of the Orizzonti Award for best actor at the 2024 Venice Film Festival) has grown up with his mother (an excellent Barbara Ronchi) and younger brother (Marco Cicalese) in the shadow of his violently abusive and mostly absent father (Francesco Di Leva). When his father reappears on the scene, Luigi finds himself caught between the imperative to protect his family from further trauma and the fraught sense of belonging he derives from running with a gang of fascists as his “chosen” family. Familia has been nominated for eight Donatello Awards.
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