Mia Madre

WINNER – 2015 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL – ECUMENICAL JURY PRIZE
NOMINEE – 2015 EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS – BEST DIRECTOR (Nanni Moretti) & BEST ACTRESS (Margherita Buy)
WINNER – 2015 ITALIAN ACADEMY AWARDS – BEST ACTRESS (Margherita Buy) & BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Guilia Lazzarini)

Acclaimed Italian auteur Nanni Moretti returns to brilliant form with his semi-autobiographical and award-winning new dramedy MIA MADRE, with the stunning Margherita Buy starring as a director struggling to balance life and art.

Margherita (Buy) is directing a new social drama, set against the backdrop of an industrial dispute. Try as she may to remain professional, the emotional turmoil of her private life is taking a toll: an affair with one of her actors (Enrico Ianniello) has come to an end, her adolescent daughter (Beatrice Mancini) is failing Latin, but most troubling is the recent hospitalization of her formidable, beloved mother Ada (Giulia Lazzarini). Whilst her brother Giovanni (Moretti) gradually allows himself to be engulfed by his mother’s last days, taking extended leave to prolong his bedside vigil, Margherita’s tough schedule makes more than a daily visit tricky.

Meanwhile, the famous American actor Barry Huggins (the fabulous John Turturro) has arrived, a needy and capricious personality whose brash presence on set sees things go from bad to worse, and whose general ineptitude might finally push Margherita over the edge…