Happy Winter

POV Season 32
  • Feature Film
  • 2019
  • 60 Mins

Every summer on Palermo's Mondello beach, over 1,000 cabins are built in preparation of the Ferragosto holiday. Centered around a family who goes into debt, three women holding onto the feeling of youth, and a politician seeking votes, Happy Winter portrays a vanity fair of beachgoers hiding behind the memory of a social status that the economic crisis of recent years has compromised.

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Film Credits

  • Giovanni Totaro Director
  • Simone Catania Producer