''There Is a Light'' () is a 2017 Italian drama film co-written and directed by

Fabio Mollo Fabio Mollo (born 27 April 1980) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Reggio Calabria, Mollo graduated in Visual Theory and Film History at the University of East London, and later enrolled at the Centro Sperim ...

Plot

Cast

Luca Marinelli Luca Marinelli (born 22 October 1984) is an Italian actor. He is best known for the roles of Mattia in '' The Solitude of Prime Numbers'' (2010), Guido in '' Every Blessed Day'' (2012), Andrea in '' The Great Beauty'' (2013), Cesare in '' Don't ...

as Paolo *

Isabella Ragonese Isabella Ragonese (born 19 May 1981) is an Italian actress. She studied acting at the Teatès School in Palermo, under director Michele Perriera. During her studies, she wrote, directed and starred in several adaptations of his plays. In 1998 s ...

as Mia * as Mario * as Nunzia

Production

The film was produced by Bianca Film with

Rai Cinema Rai Cinema S.p.A. is an Italian film production company owned by RAI, the national public broadcaster of Italy. Since its inception, the company has invested nearly €1 billion in the production of over 900 films. History Rai Cinema was forme ...

. It was shot between

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, and the

Calabria Calabria is a Regions of Italy, region in Southern Italy. It is a peninsula bordered by the region Basilicata to the north, the Ionian Sea to the east, the Strait of Messina to the southwest, which separates it from Sicily, and the Tyrrhenian S ...

n region, namely in the cities of

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Gioia Tauro Gioia Tauro () is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria (Italy), on the Tyrrhenian coast. It has an important port, situated along the route connecting Suez to Gibraltar, one of the busiest maritime corridors in ...

and

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Release

The film was released in Italian cinemas on 13 July 2017.

Reception

For this film

won the

Globo d'oro The Globo d'oro (internationally known as Italian Golden Globe) is an Italian annual film award. It was founded in 1959 by the Foreign Press Association in Italy. The Globo d'oro Awards for Italian cinema are given by the Foreign Press. The fi ...

for best actress. The film also received four

Nastro d'Argento The (plural: ''Nastri d'Argento''; English: Silver Ribbon) is an Italian film award, held since 1946 by the ''Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani'' (Italian National Union of Film Journalists). Awards are given annually in ...

nominations, for best actress (Ragonese), best actor (Marinelli), best supporting actress (Ferruzzo) and best original story.

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