In view of the David di Donatello 2025, this is where to stream the five candidates for the best film prize
By now we are running out … on May 7 the delivery ceremony will be held of the David di Donatellothe most important Italian film prize. In view of the event, it is the perfect time to recover the five nominating titles in the best film category. Four feature films and a television series (yes, just a series: The art of joy by Valeria Golino, in the race thanks to a distribution also in the rooms) make up the finalist cinquina. Everyone has already come out in the room and are now available in streaming on different platforms.
Five works, five different ways of telling Italy, memory and identity. Waiting to find out who David will win, the advice is simple: look at them all. It’s worth it.
1. Berlinguer – The great ambition
Director: Andrea Segre
Interpreters: Elio Germano, Elena Radonicich
Where to see it: First videos, Apple TV
Andrea Segre reconstructs a crucial moment in the political affair of Enrico Berlinguer, a communist leader who between 1973 and 1978 attempted the ambitious “historical compromise” with Christian democracy. The film alternates fiction and extraordinary archival material, partly unprecedented, thanks to the meticulous work of Daniele Ongaro. Elio Germano offers an intense and measured actor proof, returning with depth the humanity of a protagonist outside the box, without falling into simple imitation.
2. The art of joy
Director: Valeria Golino
Interpreters: Tecla Insolia, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Guido Caprino
Where to see it: Sky and Now (6 episodes)
Valeria Golino begins to the direction of a series with the adaptation of the homonymous posthumous novel by Goliarda Sapienza, which has become a cult text of Italian feminism. The modest protagonist is a memorable character: free, scandalous, indomitable. Golino directs with courage, flanked by a choral script (written with Infascelli, Marciano, Santella and Sardo) and an evocative soundtrack signed by Toti Guonason. The result is a powerful and out of the box story, which confirms the director as an original and sophisticated voice on the Italian panorama.
3. The time it takes
Director: Francesca Comencini
Interpreters: Fabrizio Gifuni, Romana Maggiora Vergano, Anna Mangiocavallo
Where to see it: Now, Apple TV, first videos
An intimate and personal film, in which Francesca Comencini recalls the complex link with his father Luigi, a famous director. With a sober and touching style, the director tells the story of a girl and then teenager in silent dialogue with a loving but cumbersome father, against the background of a Rome and an essential Paris. The moment in which it is reborn, on the reconstructed set, the Pinocchio television by Luigi Comencini: a tribute to the salvific power of cinema.
4. Parthenope
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Interpreters: Celeste from the door, Gary Oldman, Silvio Orlando, Luisa Ranieri, Isabella Ferrari
Where to see it: Netflix
Parthenope is not only a girl, but a living and sensual metaphor of Naples, of youth and beauty. With this film Paolo Sorrentino signs a deeply personal and visually sumptuous work, in which the city becomes the scene of a fragmented and poetic story. After the intimacy of It was the hand of Godthe director returns to compose a symphony of images poised between reality and vision, in one of his most ambitious and mature films.
5. Vermilion
Director: Maura Delpero
Interpreters: Martina Scrinzi, Tommaso Ragno, Giuseppe De Domenico
Where to see it: Sky and Now
Set in a remote mountain village in 1944, Vermilion He strongly tells the story of a family shocked by the arrival of a young Sicilian deserter. Maura Delpero directs a female choral narration with sensitivity and rigor, where patriarchy, repressed desires and the weight of the war intertwine. Winner of the silver lion in Venice and included in the shortlist for the Oscars, it is an independent gem of cinema not to be missed.
