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Tag: Italy

  • Amatissime 🇮🇹 Italy

    Amatissime · Giulia Caminito · Italy (2022)

    Giulia Caminito’s Amatissime, published by Giulio Perrone Editore, is a hybrid work of literary essay and memoir centered on five Italian women writers: Elsa Morante, Natalia Ginzburg, Paola Masino, Laudomia Bonanni, and Livia De Stefani.

    The book reconstructs aspects of their lives and writing while intertwining them with Caminito’s own reading life, memories, and literary formation. Several reviews also note the presence of Rome as an important cultural and personal setting in the book.

  • Ferrino 🇮🇹 Italy

    Ferrino · Italy

    Founded in Turin in 1870, Ferrino is one of the oldest outdoor brands in continuous operation anywhere in the world. The company is still owned by the fifth generation of the founding family.

    Their high-performance tents and sleeping bags have been used on major Himalayan expeditions, and the brand supplies the United Nations, the Red Cross, and Italian Civil Protection. Part of their high-end range is produced in their original Turin factory.

  • The Good Mothers 🇮🇹 Italy

    The Good Mothers · Italy (2023)

    Three women born into the ‘Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia, work with a female prosecutor to bring the organisation down from the inside. Based on true events and Alex Perry’s book of the same name. Won the Berlinale Series Award at the Berlin Film Festival in 2023.

  • The Big Fake 🇮🇹 Italy

    The Big Fake (Il falsario) · Italy (2025)

    A young painter arrives in Rome during the 1970s with nothing but his talent. He ends up becoming the most in-demand forger in the city, working simultaneously for art galleries, the mafia and the secret services. The story is based on real events and is set against the political violence of the Years of Lead in Italy.

  • Nessun luogo è lontano: Ginevra 🇮🇹 Italy

    Nessun luogo è lontano · Italy (Language: Italian)

    Recommended episode: “Ginevra, capitale della diplomazia.”