Gioia

+ intro and Q&A with director Nicolangelo Gelormini and actor Valeria Golino

Valeria Golino and Saul Nanni are mesmerising in this enthralling drama about an introverted teacher and her dangerously manipulative pupil.

  • Director

    Nicolangelo Gelormini

  • With

    Valeria Golino, Saul Nanni, Jasmine Trinca, Francesco Colella

  • Italy 2025. 108min

  • Digital

  • English subtitles

Gelormini follows his excellent debut feature, Fortuna: The Girl and the Giants, with this enthralling noir, adapted from a theatre piece. Golino plays Gioia, a bookish schoolteacher, who is drawn out of her mundane existence by the seductive yet fraudulent attentions of Alessio, a criminally unscrupulous pupil.