Alessandro Bardani’s debut film won a round of applause at the 53rd Giffoni Film Festival. It’s a well written and well-acted movie, seamlessly inciting tears and laughter and shedding light on legislation currently affecting 400,000 people who don’t have the right to find out who brought them into the world or to uncover crucial information about their own genetic make-up. Sergio Castellitto plays a centenarian in Alessandro Bardani’s well written and well-acted dramedy. Gustavo has never met his mother. An Italian law prevents children who are unrecognised at birth from discovering the identity of their own biological parents before the former reach one hundred years of age. Gustavo is now a hundred years old, and Giovanni—his “brother from another mother”, who was likewise abandoned at birth but is far younger—seeks the old man’s help in order to fight against Italy’s absurd “100-year-old law”. Excellent Italian comedy and irony.