ICI London and CinemaItaliaUK present
Future Classics. Screening the New Italian Cinema #3
Future Classics is a new film series dedicated to Italian cinema and its contemporary classics, offering a vivid and dynamic portrait of Italy — its faces, landscapes and stories. Curated by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Londra and CinemaItaliaUK, the programme highlights a key phase of renewal and evolution in Italian cinema: the wave of new directors, the rise of independent producers and the revival of genre filmmaking.
Screenings will take place monthly (excluding July and August) throughout 2026 in selected cinemas in central London.
Third screening in the series:
Sunday 26 April, 7.30 pm
at Regent Street Cinema (307 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW)
GIOIA MIA / SWEETHEART
by Margherita Spampinato
Starring Marco Fiore and Aurora Quattrocchi
In Italian with EN Subs
Nico, a lively, irritable and cheeky young boy raised in a secular family within a modern, technological and hyper-connected world, is forced to spend the summer in Sicily with an elderly aunt — a deeply religious and ill-tempered woman who lives alone in an ancient palace filled with legends and superstitions, without Wi-Fi or household appliances, completely cut off from modern life.
The aunt welcomes him reluctantly and attempts to draw him, almost forcefully, into her world populated by angels and spirits, shaped by a mystical vision of religion. The clash between modernity and the past, reason and faith, speed and slowness, marks the beginning of their turbulent relationship. Yet gradually, a deep bond emerges — one that neither of them knew they needed.
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The Italian Cultural Institute in London (ICI London), an office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, promotes Italian language and culture in England and Wales through cultural initiatives that encourage the exchange of ideas, arts and sciences.
CinemaItaliaUK is a registered charity in England and Wales, founded in 2019 with the aim of promoting Italian culture by bringing the best of Italian cinema to the United Kingdom — a mission it has pursued since 2014. Its goal is to foster public understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of the arts, particularly Italian cinema, through the creation and development of a film club and a curated programme of screenings, festivals and events that go beyond the mainstream, encouraging debate and meaningful cultural exchange.