For the 21st consecutive year, CAFILM presents a selection of Oscar® submissions from around the world. This year, 85 countries submitted films for consideration in the 2025 Academy Awards® Best International Feature Film category.
For Your Consideration is a rare opportunity to see all 15 of the shortlisted films in this category, many of which are top film festival prize winners… which do you think will take home the Oscar®?
ITALY’S SUBMISSION FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM • 2025 ACADEMY AWARDS®
“A richly compassionate, emotional and detailed drama of family secrets.”
– Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
“Remarkable. A momentous vision.”
– Jessica Kiang, Variety
“A ravishingly textured stunner.”
– David Erlich, IndieWire
The lush and breathtaking beauty of the Alps, filmed with painterly grace under natural light from frigid winter to redemptive spring, provides the physical and emotional backdrop for Vermiglio, Maura Delpero’s visionary film, which won the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival. This singular portrait of a sprawling family, set in the small, mountainous village of Vermiglio during the waning days of WWII, follows a series of dramatic, consequential events after the arrival of a taciturn Sicilian soldier (Giuseppe De Domenico), who hides out in town after deserting the army. While there, the soldier develops a romance with the family’s eldest daughter, Lucia (Martina Scrinzi).
Vermiglio shows the lives of a provincial family in a remote village suspended in time by the customs of a fading era. Conjuring stories from her own family’s past, Delpero creates a deeply personal and human tale that recalls the great neorealist movement in Italian cinema, but through Lucia’s perspective Vermiglio feels distinct and novel.
In Italian with English subtitles
Director Maura Delpero (Italy 2024) 119 min.
THURSDAY, JAN 30 • 7:00
$14. General | $10.50 Seniors & Youth | $8.50 CAFILM members