La Paloma Theatre
471 S Coast Hwy 101
Encinitas, CA 92024

Thu. 5/28 - 7:00 PM

$16 GA
$12 SDIFF Members
$7 Students & Military

*Eventive fees not included in the price.

The lush and breathtaking beauty of the Alps, filmed with painterly grace under natural light from frigid winter to redemptive spring, provides the physical and emotional backdrop for Vermiglio, Maura Delpero’s visionary film, which won the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival. This singular portrait of a sprawling family, set in the small, mountainous village of Vermiglio during the waning days of WWII, follows a series of dramatic, consequential events after the arrival of a taciturn Sicilian soldier, who hides out in town after deserting the army. While there, the soldier develops a romance with the family’s eldest daughter, Lucia. Vermiglio shows the lives of a provincial family in a remote village suspended in time by the customs of a fading era. Conjuring stories from her own family’s past, Delpero creates a deeply personal and human tale that recalls the great neorealist movement in Italian cinema, but through Lucia’s perspective Vermiglio feels distinct and novel. Italy’s Official Selection for the 2025 Academy Awards.

In Italian with English subtitles.

Year: Italy, France, Belgium 2024, 119 mins

Directed by: Maura Delpero

Screenplay: Maura Delpero

Editing: Gianluca Mattei 

Cinematography: Mikhail Krichman

Cast: Tommaso Ragno, Giuseppe De Domenico, Carlotta Gamba, Roberta Rovelli, Martina Scrinzi, Sara Serraiocco, Orietta Notari, Santiago Fondevila Sancet, Rachele Potrich, Anna Thaler, Patrick Gardener, Enrico Panizza, Luis Thaler, Simone Benedetti

Production: Cinedora, Charades, Versus, Rai Cinema 

Distribution: Janus