Italian Film Club: Diamanti | Nerve Cinema
Date: 26 March 2026
Venue: Nerve Centre, 7-8 Magazine Street, Derry~Londonderry, Derry~Londonderry, BT48 6HJ
Italian Film Club at Nerve Cinema, a series of ongoing screenings showcases Italian culture and Italian language through contemporary and classic titles from Italian cinema.
The latest film from writer-director Ferzan Özpetek, Diamanti is visually stunning and delicately embroidered with its blend of vintage melodrama and dramatic comedy,which immerses audiences in celebration of the golden age of Italian cinema.
A film director (Stefano Accorsi) gathers his favorite actresses, those he worked with and those he loved. He wants to make a film about women but he doesn't reveal much: he observes them, takes cue, until his imaginary throw them into another era, in a past where the noise of the sewing machines fills a workplace handled and populated by women, where men have minor and marginal roles and cinema can be told from another point of view: the one of costume.
Between loneliness, passions, anxieties, heartbreaking absence and unbreakable bonds, reality and fiction permeate, as well as the lives of the actresses and those of the characters, the competition and the sisterhood, the visible and the invisible.
Ferzan Özpetek | Italy | 2024 | 135 mins | Subtitled | TBC