Winner of the Cannes’ Directors' Fortnight Award and a rising voice of Italian cinema, filmmaker Jonas Carpignano continues his exploration of the intricacies of life in contemporary Calabria with this compelling character study of a teenager, Chiara, who gradually comes to discover that her close-knit family is not all that it seems. In this furiously paced drama, Chiara investigates her father’s disappearance just one day after her oldest sister’s birthday. As she gets closer to the difficult truth about her mysteriously missing father—and the crime syndicates that control her region— Chiara is forced to decide what kind of future she wants for herself. A coming-of-age chronicle like no other, A CHIARA is both an intimate and universal family story.

<p><meta charset="utf-8"><span data-mce-fragment="1">Winner of the Cannes’ Directors' Fortnight Award and a rising voice of Italian cinema, filmmaker Jonas Carpignano continues his exploration of the intricacies of life in contemporary Calabria with this compelling character study of a teenager, Chiara, who gradually comes to discover that her close-knit family is not all that it seems. </span></p>
<p><span data-mce-fragment="1">In this furiously paced drama, Chiara investigates her father’s disappearance just one day after her oldest sister’s birthday. As she gets closer to the difficult truth about her mysteriously missing father—and the crime syndicates that control her region— Chiara is forced to decide what kind of future she wants for herself. A coming-of-age chronicle like no other, A CHIARA is both an intimate and universal family story.</span></p>

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<p style="column-count: 1"><span style="color: #ffffff">In this furiously paced drama, a teenager investigates her father’s mysterious disappearance just one day after her oldest sister’s birthday, uncovering a difficult truth about her father and the crime syndicates that control her region. </span><em><span style="color: #ffffff">Subtitled in English</span></em></p>

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<p style="column-count: 1"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">“It’s a film about family, about father-daughter relations. It’s a film which talks about how people learn to find their own moral compass, and how they lean to navigate their surroundings. If I had to find a common thread in my three films, that would be it.”</span></p>

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Portrait of a Lady on Fire official theatrical poster. Artwork by Akiko Stehrenberger.

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A CHIARA

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A Statement by

Jonas Carpignano

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A COMING-OF-AGE CHRONICLE LIKE NO OTHER.

A CHIARA

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A Statement by

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A COMING-OF-AGE CHRONICLE LIKE NO OTHER.