Modern Films, is pleased to announce the UK and Ireland release date for Maura Delporo’s (Maternal) award-winning film VERMIGLIO on 17 January 2025. Written and directed by Delporo, Vermiglio was awarded the Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize at the 2024 Venice Film Festival and is Italy’s official selection for Best International Feature Film at the 2025 Academy Awards.
In 1944, in a mountain village high up in the Italian Alps, war looms as a distant but constant threat. Cesare Graziadeim, the local schoolmaster and his wife Adele have eight living children including Lucia, Ada, and Flavia.
The arrival of Pietro, a Sicilian soldier who has deserted from his unit, disrupts the dynamics of Cesare’s family, changing them forever. During the four seasons marking the end of World War II, Pietro and Lucia, the eldest daughter, are instantly drawn to each other leading to an unexpected fate. As the world emerges from tragedy, the family will face its own.
Vermiglio is a story of children and adults, deaths, births, disappointments and rebirths as each new season waxes and wanes. This sweeping, yet intimate, family chronicle was inspired by Delporo’s personal and family recollections of the house and community where her father grew up and became a box-office sensation when it opened in Italy in September, becoming the top Italian independent film of 2024, outperforming Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All and Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera.
