Filming for Amata, directed by Elisa Amoruso and written by Ilaria Bernardini, starring Miriam Leone, Stefano Accorsi, Tecla Insolia, was shot in Rome. Presented at the Giornate degli Autori at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, the story intertwines the lives of Nunzia (Tecla Insolia), a university student of Sicilian origins, and Maddalena (Miriam Leone), a civil engineer and their contrasting approaches to maternity: the former crushed by the weight of an unwanted pregnancy, the latter oppressed by her own desire for motherhood.
Amata presents two lives that touch each other without meeting, linked by invisible threads and choices capable of changing a destiny. With an intimate, sensual, and profoundly human gaze, through the bodies and souls of its protagonists, Amata explores what it means to choose and to love.
Locations included Latina and Sabaudia, whose seafront served as a backdrop for a Sicilian village.
Filming for Amata, directed by Elisa Amoruso and written by Ilaria Bernardini, starring Miriam Leone, Stefano Accorsi, Tecla Insolia, was shot in Rome. Presented at the Giornate degli Autori at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, the story intertwines the lives of Nunzia (Tecla Insolia), a university student of Sicilian origins, and Maddalena (Miriam Leone), a civil engineer and their contrasting approaches to maternity: the former crushed by the weight of an unwanted pregnancy, the latter oppressed by her own desire for motherhood.
Amata presents two lives that touch each other without meeting, linked by invisible threads and choices capable of changing a destiny. With an intimate, sensual, and profoundly human gaze, through the bodies and souls of its protagonists, Amata explores what it means to choose and to love.
Locations included Latina and Sabaudia, whose seafront served as a backdrop for a Sicilian village.
MeMo Films, Indiana Production, Rai Cinema
While studying at a university far from her hometown, Nunzia is crushed by the weight of a secret, unwanted pregnancy. In an isolated world, she faces the profound, heart-wrenching decision: to keep the baby or to give it up. Elsewhere, Maddalena and Luca inhabit the void created when something never arrives. After a long journey, a possibility dawns in their lives: delicate, luminous, full of expectation. Amata is the intertwined story of two fragile, combative, powerful women who demonstrate love, freedom, and motherhood in its many forms. A third, Margherita, the little girl, suspended between different worlds, is the silent bearer of a bond that unites, unbeknownst to anyone.
