Sweetheart

Sweetheart (Italian: Gioia mia) is a 2025 Italian family drama film written and directed by Margherita Spampinato in her feature debut. The film starring Aurora Quattrocchi, follows Nico, a spirited and surly child brought up in a secular, tech-driven household, is reluctantly sent to spend the summer in Sicily with her aunt Gela, an old-fashioned, devout woman. The film had its world premiere at the 78th Locarno Film Festival on 11 August 2025, in the Filmmakers of the Present Competition section, where it competed for Golden Leopard – Filmmakers of the Present