Dates and time
Friday 29th July, 2022, 7.30pm
Sunday 31st July, 2022, 6pm
Friday 5th August, 2022, 7.30pm
Saturday 6th August, 2022, 8.30pm
Wednesday 10th August, 2022, 7.30pm
Sunday 14th August, 2022, 6pm
Thursday 18th August, 2022, 7.30pm

Award-winning filmmaker Jonas Carpignano explores the true meaning of family in A CHIARA, a gritty neorealist drama set in Italy that tells the coming-of-age story of a teenage girl grappling with the sins of her father.

In an astonishing central performance, Swamy Rotolo plays Chiara, the 15-year-old daughter of an affluent family whose ties to the local mafia underworld start to become clear after a shocking revelation. The third in his loosely-connected ‘Calabrian trilogy’ (following Mediterranea and A Ciambra), Carpignano’s latest continues his exploration of the poverty and crime that shapes the social fabric of the small-town community of Gioia Tauro. Winner of the Europa Cinemas Label prize for best European film, in the Cannes 2021 Directors’ Fortnight.