THROUGH HER EYES
A Five-film Series by Italian Women Directors
Wednesday, April 22 | 6:30 PM (doors open at 6 PM)
Italian Cultural Institute
710 Sansome Street, San Francisco
SWEETHEART (Gioia Mia)
Directed by: Margherita Spampinato
Italy, 2025, 90 min
Starring: Aurora Quattrocchi, Marco Fiore, Camille Dugay, Martina Ziami
In Italian with English subtitles
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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 deeply religious elderly aunt. She lives alone in an ancient mansion filled with legends and superstitions, without Wi-Fi, household appliances, or any form of modern technology—a place completely frozen in time.
The aunt welcomes him with annoyance and tries to forcefully draw 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 begins to grow—one that neither of them knew they needed.