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Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't

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GIANNI DI GREGORIO
Italy, France, 2025
93 minutes, Color

Director Gianni Di Gregorio (The Salt of Life, Mid-August Lunch) returns to Filmfest DC with his latest comedy-drama, in which he also takes on the lead role. In this charming film, Di Gregorio stars as a retired professor whose peaceful, perfectly predictable life is upended by the unexpected arrival of his daughter (Greta Scarano), who's taken her two children—teenaged Olga and rambunctious young Tomasso—and left her philandering husband (Tom Wlaschiha, Game of Thrones) back in Germany. Having retreated to the safety and serenity of his familiar, largely isolated routine, the professor is suddenly thrust back into the world of complicated family dynamics and all the chaos, drama and, ultimately, connection, they can entail. As gorgeously shot as it is heartfelt, Di Gregorio's sixth film is an unapologetic feel-good story about family and the importance of always being there for the people you love.—Various sources

In Italian with English subtitles