Gioia (2025)★ 6.1/10

IT · 108 min · August 28, 2025

Drama

Written by: Benedetta Mori, Giuliano Scarpinato, Chiara Tripaldi

A high school teacher living with her parents forms a forbidden connection with a troubled student who turns to prostitution to support his mother. Their fragile bond becomes unexpectedly essential to both.

Original title

Gioia

Storyline

Gioia is a french literature teacher who has never known love, except for the suffocating kind from her parents, with whom she still lives. Among the students at her school is Alessio, who uses his body as a means to earn money and help his mother, a cashier in a supermarket. A forbidden, fragile, and inexplicably necessary bond grows between Alessio and Gioia. But Alessio's desire for social and personal redemption becomes a silent poison that keeps him from fully surrendering to Gioia's disarming sweetness. And so, he destroys everything and erases the only person who has ever loved him.

Rating

6.1 / 10 · 370

Companies

HT Film, Indigo Film, Vision Distribution, Ministero della Cultura (MiC), Film Commission Torino-Piemonte

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