A Ciambra (Italian: [a tˈtʃambra]) is a 2017 Italian drama film directed by Jonas Carpignano. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.[2][3] At Cannes in won the Europa Cinemas Label Award.[4] It was selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.[5] It is the second in the director's trilogy set in a Calabrian town, following Mediterranea (2015) and followed by A Chiara (2022).
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Directed by | Jonas Carpignano |
Written by | Jonas Carpignano |
Produced by | Paolo Carpignano Jon Coplon Christoph Daniel Gwyn Sannia Marc Schmidheiny Rodrigo Teixeira Ryan Zacarias |
Starring | Pio Amato |
Cinematography | Tim Curtin |
Edited by | Affonso Gonçalves |
Music by | Dan Romer |
Production companies | Stayblack RT Features Rai Cinema Sikelia Productions |
Distributed by | Academy Two |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Box office | $91,846[1] |
Fourteen-year-old Pio Amato idolizes his older brother in their small Romani community in Calabria. Challenges mount after his older brother disappears.
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 90% based on 58 reviews, and an average rating of 7.1/10.[6] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 70 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[7]
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