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Diamonds - Italian Film Festival 2025

135 mins.

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Italian Film Festival 2025
Saturday 8 November 2025 at 7.30pm

Award-winning filmmaker Ferzan zpetek returns with this Italian box office hit, a joyous and touching tribute to the costume designers and seamstresses whose great craftsmanship bring to life the magic of cinema. Inspired by zpeteks personal experience frequenting film and theatre tailoring shops in the 1980s, Diamonds features a dazzling all-star ensemble cast led by Luisa Ranieri (Parthenope) and Jasmine Trinca (Maria Montessori), with costumes by designer Stefano Ciammitti.

In the present day, zpetek decides to make a film about women and so gathers his favourite actresses for a lunch and script read-through, which leads to his imagination transporting them into another era.

In 1970s Rome, sisters Alberta and Gabriella run a prestigious fashion house, where the noise of the sewing machines fills a workplace populated by women. When an important order arrives from an Oscar-winning costume designer client, challenges arise as the team of talented dressmakers try to fulfill the requirements.

Outside and within the atelier, passions, anxieties, and unbreakable bonds intertwine as the line between reality and fiction begins to blur.

Comedy  Drama 


Saturday 08/11/2025 - Cinema One