Maura Delpero's “Vermiglio” has already won the “Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize” at the last Venice Film Festival and is in the running for the Oscars, awaiting the shortlist for the “International Feature Film Award” category of the 97th edition, which will be announced on Dec. 17. Yesterday the announcement on Cbs: the film has been included among the finalists for the “Golden Globes 2025.”

There is the Italian flag in other categories as well: in fact, competing are Isabella Rossellini, as “Best Supporting Actress” in “Conclave,” by Edward Berger, and “Challengers,” by Luca Guadagnino, competing in the category “Best Musical or Comedy Film” to also as “Best Original Song.”

“Vermiglio,” nominated for ‘Best Foreign Film,’ has grossed nearly 2.4 million euros in our theaters and will be released in the United States on Christmas Day, recounting overseas a poor and emigrant Italian society, but with universal events that affect the lives of so many villages around the world.

“Vermiglio” is a reenactment of life in a small mountain community in Trentino at the turn of World War II, where the Graziadei family lives in a small house amid fields and snow. The head of the family is an elementary school teacher who tries to get his students to learn Italian, who instead express themselves in dialect and, above all, tries to motivate them to aspire to something higher than daily toil. Breaking the Graziadei family's routine for the four seasons of the last year of the war will be the arrival of a deserting Sicilian soldier...

The cast includes Tommaso Ragno, Giuseppe De Domenico, Roberta Rovelli, Martina Scrinzi, Orietta Notari, Carlotta Gamba and Sara Serraiocco.