Gioia (2025)

  • NR
  • 08/27/2025 (IT)
  • Drama
  • 1h 48m

Overview

Gioia is a high school teacher who has never known any other love than the oppressive bond with her own parents, with whom she still lives. One of the students at her school, Alessio, is cashing in on his own body to make a couple of hundred euros to help his mother, a cashier in a supermarket. The relationship that dawns between Gioia and Alessio is forbidden fruit, fragile yet, inexplicably, one they can’t do without. Still, Alessio’s desire to improve his social standing is a silent killer that prevents him from ultimately accepting Gioia’s surprising affection for him. He goes and destroys it all, cancelling the only person who has ever loved him.

Nicolangelo Gelormini

Director

Giuliano Scarpinato

Screenplay, Novel

Benedetta Mori

Screenplay

Gioia Salvatori

Novel

Cast

Valeria Golino's headshot

Valeria Golino

Gioia
Saul Nanni's headshot

Saul Nanni

Alessio
Jasmine Trinca's headshot

Jasmine Trinca

Carla
Francesco Colella's headshot

Francesco Colella

Cosimo
Betti Pedrazzi's headshot

Betti Pedrazzi

Gisella
Gianni Bissacca's headshot

Gianni Bissacca

Professore di Filosofia

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