Veteran Italian director Daniele Luchetti — whose “The Ties” opened the 2020 Venice Film Festival — is back behind the camera on “Your Little Matter” (“Dove Non Mi Hai Portata”), a drama about a young writer looking into her parents’ dark past led by rising Italian talent Tecla Insolia.
Italy’s Fandango and Vision Distribution have teamed to co-produce the film, which started shooting on Wednesday, and will jointly handle international sales.
Insolia, who was among the European Shooting Stars showcased at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, broke out in the Sky Original miniseries “The Art of Joy,” in which she played a Sicilian woman born into poverty at the turn of the 20th century who frees herself from social constraints. In “Your Little Matter” (first-look image below), Insolia plays Maria Grazia, a writer driven by the desire to uncover her origins who tracks down the story of her birth mother, who abandoned her on a checkered blanket besides a bush in Rome’s Villa Borghese park in 1965.
It’s a true story, based on an autobiographical Italian novel written by Maria Grazia Calandrone.
“Through fragments of memory, secrets and silences, Maria Grazia pieces together the mosaic of her family history in a journey that explores the meaning of motherhood and the universal need to know where we come from,” says the provided synopsis.
Besides Insolia, Luchetti’s latest drama also stars Margherita Buy, Alessandro Preziosi, Marcello Fonte and Nicola Rignanese.
“Your Little Matter” is a co-production between Italy’s Fandango and Vision Distribution and Spain’s BTeam Prods.
Luchetti is among Italy’s top directors, whose credits include the third season of RAI/HBO’s Elena Ferrante TV series “My Brilliant Friend” and Elio Germano films “My Brother Is an Only Child” and 2024’s “Trust,” which sold quite widely.