Gloria!

Director: Margherita Vicario

Genre: Drama

Running Time: 106 min

Year of production: 2024

Synopsis: The year is 1800, in the Sant Ignazio College, an old decrepit musical institution for girls, somewhere near Venice. Here lives “the Mute”, a silent, solitary maid devoted to the humblest chores. No one knows her name, Teresa, and no one suspects her extraordinary, hidden visionary talent that enables her to sense the universe’s harmony and reshape reality through music. While everybody at the Sant Ignazio is making a huge fuss about the imminent visit of the newly enthroned Pope and the old Chapel Master is struggling to put together a new composition for the Pontifex, Teresa makes an exceptional discovery in the storeroom: a brand-new invention, a beautiful instrument… a pianoforte. Around Teresa, with her powerful and, at the time, revolutionary “music machine”, gathers an amazing “quartet” of young women, the best, most energetic musicians of Sant Ignazio. From this secret cell of great yet overlooked talents, a new music will be born that the Pope (and the world) certainly did not expect... Gloria! is about the imagination, fantasy and talent of all the many female composers who, like flowers left to dry, are hidden away in the pages of History.

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  • Berlinale 2024: Competition

    Festival del Cinema Italiano - Giappone 2024

    Globi d'Oro 2024: Migliore Opera Prima, Migliore Colonna Sonora

    Istanbul Film Festival 2024: Musicians

    Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2024: Horizons

    New Zealand International Film Festival 2024: Rhythms

    Seattle International Film Festival 2024: Official Competition - Grand Jury Prize

    The Norwegian Int'l Film Festival - Haugesund 2024: Main programme

    AFI Fest 2024