Vermiglio

Vermiglio (2024) is an Italian drama you can watch online on iFILM, written and directed by Maura Delpero. It took home the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival — the jury's second-highest prize. The setting is a remote village in the Trentino Alps in the final months of World War II, where a deserting soldier named Pietro arrives and finds shelter with a local teacher's family.

Pietro has nothing to offer except his presence. The teacher's eldest daughter falls for him anyway. What follows reshapes every member of the household — sisters, a strong-willed mother, a father who has always believed he controls what happens under his roof. Delpero shot in the village where she grew up, casting non-professional locals alongside trained actors, and the result carries the specific weight of a place remembered rather than imagined.

Nearly two hours long, nearly silent, and entirely unhurried — Vermiglio rewards patience with something rare: a story about the aftermath of war told from the inside of one family's walls. Stream Vermiglio online on iFILM.