PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Charlotte Wells, director of the film Aftersun.
Charlotte Wells’ first feature film, Aftersun, presented at the Cannes Film Festival and in Italy at Alice nella città, is finally on Mubi to be watched and appreciated. It is a first feature film which is, at the same time, an enchanting and nostalgic look at a father-daughter relationship and a delicate coming-of-age.
Aftersun: Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between miniDV footage as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t.
"How to have sex" , the opening film of Alice nella Città 2023, is DOP Molly Manning Walker's directorial debut and is about the sexual pressure the teenage world is built around
Paolo Sorrentino’s “La Grazia” to open the 82nd Venice Film Festival on August 27, 2025. World premiere with Toni Servillo in competition at Biennale Cinema.
In Son of Happiness, Dominik Mirecki tells the moving story of Beniamin, a boy with Down syndrome who dreams of acting. Through heartfelt realism and emotional depth, Mirecki explores family bonds, love, and the courage to dream—even when the world …
In Fish River Anthology, Veera Lamminpää blends humor, melancholy, and stop-motion animation to explore the inner lives of dead fish in a supermarket. A surreal musical elegy that questions existence, value, and the overlooked beauty of everyday life.