Marina

Marina (2013) is a Belgian biographical drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Stijn Coninx. It tells the true story of Rocco Granata — a boy from Calabria who arrived in Belgium as a teenager after his father took work in the coal mines and, against all odds, found his way to music.

Matteo Simoni plays Rocco, with Luigi Lo Cascio as his father Salvatore, a man who came to Belgium to earn money and measures his son's future in the same practical terms. Rocco wants something different: to sing, and to win over a girl named Marina. The song he wrote for her in 1959 travelled across Europe and turned a teenager from a mining settlement into a name people still recognize. Stijn Coninx keeps the film grounded in the specific texture of immigrant life — the cramped housing, the language barrier, the weight of a father's expectations pressing down on a son who has already decided to go another way. Watch Marina (2013) online on iFILM.