There is a long wave to surf in cinema, that of the female gaze, complex, never univocal, sensitive.
A cultural and economic wish for the box office on the occasion of Italian Cinema Day which occurs on Federico Fellini's birthday (20 January 1920).
For entertainment, 2023 has had a year to remember for women, from Taylor Swift to Margot Robbie, and 2024 is full of expectations even if the numbers still cannot be defined as a turning point given that out of 52 Italian films released only 14 are signed by directors.
And even outside Italy things are no better: according to a January 2024 report, Inclusion in the Director's Chair, only 12.1% of the best American films of 2023 were directed by women.
Getting Paola Cortellesi's There's Still Tomorrow out of the gilded cage of an exceptional event, a film that has continued to fill theaters since October 26th and has exceeded 35 million euros, attracting all types of audiences, is the mission.
During 2024, starting from Maria Sole Tognazzi with Dieci Minuti, from the best seller by Chiara Gamberale and with Barbara Ronchi, Margherita Buy and Fotinì Peluso, Francesca Comencini arrives with the autobiographical Prima la vita poi il cinema with Fabrizio Gifuni and Romana Maggiora Vergano, I saw a king by Giorgia Farina with Sara Serraiocco and Edoardo Pesce, Let's all center by Paola Randi, the curious debut of the singer-songwriter Margherita Vicario with Gloria!
on a group of extraordinary Venetian musicians of the 18th century, the actress Carolina Pavone with Quasi a casa and the documentary maker Sara Fgaier with Sulla terra leggi with Serraiocco.
And then again the long-awaited second work by Giulia Steigerwalt after the award-winning Settembre which courageously tackles the history of the hardcore agency Diva Futura (Pietro Castellitto will play Riccardo Schicchi, according to rumors).
Greta Scarano experiments with direction with Adriatica, Michela Giraud in Flaminia, is an Italian-Spanish co-production The Days of Abandonment, from the novel of the same name by Elena Ferrante, directed by Isabel Coixet and with Penelope Cruz as the protagonist, puts Grazia Deledda at the centre. second work by Paola Columba also starring Donatella Finocchiaro and Galatea Ranzi;
is a sentimental story that from the walls of the house embraces Sicily, Europe and the world, in a century of history the docu film by Costanza Quatriglio The secret drawer selected at the Berlinale in February while it deals with the last years of Salgari the new project by fiction by the Palermo director Angiolina and the captain.
Cristina Comencini reworks The Children's Train from the novel of the same name by Viola Ardone set in 1946 and starring, among others, Barbara Ronchi, Serena Rossi, Francesco Di Leva, Antonia Truppo, Nunzia Schiano, Stefano Accorsi.
These are the main titles but there aren't many others: most of the films in progress are by directors.
Telling stories with a female gaze, as well as being culturally important for conveying complexity, is also decisive for the Italian box office given that according to the latest Cinetel report for 2023 it is the audience of women, who have returned to loving films in theaters, who are keeping up the 'exercise.
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