Santocielo

Santocielo (2023) is an Italian fantasy comedy you can watch online on iFILM — directed by Francesco Amato and built around Salvatore Ficarra and Valentino Picone, the beloved Sicilian duo behind some of the biggest domestic comedies in Italian cinema.

The premise opens in paradise: a heavenly council puzzles over why people are still behaving selfishly two thousand years after Christ's sacrifice. The answer they land on is to send a new Messiah to Earth. What follows is part divine bureaucracy, part fish-out-of-water farce — warmer and more good-natured than its premise might suggest, and carried almost entirely by Ficarra and Picone's easy, well-worn chemistry. Stream Santocielo online on iFILM.