Dolce Fine Giornata
World Dramatic Competition
Best Actress
Dolce Fine Giornata
A Film by Jacek Borcuch
2019 - Poland - Drama - 2.39 - 96 min.
with Krystyna Janda , Kasia Smutniak , Vincent Riotta , Antonio Catania , Robin Renucci & Lorenzo de Moor
Languages: English , Italian , Polish
Produced by Marta Habior
Maria Linde, a free-spirited, Jewish Polish Nobel Prize winner, lives in Tuscany surrounded by warmth and chaos in her family’s villa. A loving mother and grandmother, she also fosters a secret flirtation with the much younger Egyptian man who runs a nearby seaside inn. After a terrorist attack in Rome, Maria refuses to succumb to the hysterical fear and anti-immigrant sentiment that quickly emerge, deciding in her acceptance speech of a local honor to boldly decry Europe’s eroding democracy—but she is unprepared for the public and personal havoc her comments wreak.
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