Nostalgia

Felice Lagasco returns from Egypt to Naples, the city where he was born, after forty years without setting foot in it. There, he will be reunited with his old mother, whom he has not seen since he was a child, and with the past that torments him so much. In Naples he will get lost among the houses and churches of the Sanità district and will have to face the Italian language, that language he now perceives as foreign even though it was really his own. Felice will begin to feel a strange fascination as he remembers those moments he spent with his childhood best friend, Oreste, with whom he shares a long-standing secret. He will have to learn to live from the invincible nostalgia that will take ahold of him, as he is flooded by the feelings and memories that permeate his hometown.

'Nostalgia' is based on the novel by Ermanno Rea and features Mario Martone directing behind the cameras, who has been nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his work on the film. He is joined in the screenwriting by Ippolita Di Majo, while the cast includes Pierfrancesco Favino ('World War Z'), Francesco Di Leva, Tommaso Ragno, Aurora Quattrocchi ('L'immensità'), Sofia Essaïdi, Nello Mascia, Emanuele Palumbo, Artem, and Salvatore Striano.

• Drama