GREEN FAMILY

Directed by Director's notes
  • GIAMBATTISTA AVELLINO
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Directed by
  • GIAMBATTISTA AVELLINO
Year
  • 2026
Length
  • 96 min.
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Year
  • 2026
Length
  • 96 min.
Cast
  • GIULIA BEVILACQUA
  • MAURIZIO LASTRICO
  • ANDREA PENNACCHI
  • GIORGIO COLANGELI
  • featuring LUCA RAVENNA
Synopsis

Gerry, a precarious university researcher, his wife Ilaria, a traffic warden always out in the chaos of the
city, and their teenage son Giulio, are at a turning point in their lives.
Whether it’s the cramped two-room flat they’re forced to live in, their libido having slipped six feet
underground, or the city slowly strangling them in its grey tentacles, the Fontana family has made a
radical decision: it’s time to return to NATURE!
Moving to the open countryside and dreaming of turning a crumbling farmhouse into a modern
working farm seems like the only choice that can bring peace to the couple, and help them overcome
their urban anxiety and uncertainty about the future. Except that if there’s one thing that is the exact
opposite of serenity, well, it’s nature. And they’re about to find that out.
Through a series of misadventures – from the affable millionaire neighbour playing at being a farmer,
to young Giulio’s first love, not to mention insect bites, botched drilling and miserable harvests – all
their Green hopes will wither away miserably.

Director's notes
  • The theme of GREEN FAMILY is one of those universal ones that everyone knows in their bones, so to speak: the search for happiness. We’re all chasing after it, or at least in pursuit of it. This was the first element that drew my attention to the film. Its very “broad” universality, however, carries the risk of possible genericness or approximation. The narrative framework, the storytelling context chosen for this film, are nonetheless precise. They revolve around the clash between the metropolitan soul and rural life, the conflict between Nature (or at least, one idea of it) and Culture: the family at the heart of the story looked to country life as the solution to their personal dissatisfactions and existential struggles, with a stubborn will and desire. And a fragile illusion… This inner fault line in the protagonists of Green Family introduced the third convincing element that shaped the identity of the project: the comedy register allowed complex problems and dilemmas to be tackled with lightness. In making the film (which is always, in some way, an adaptation of a screenplay) one of the main goals was to keep both the comic impulses and the credibility of the characters and their family elationships within the comedy register, as well as the social relationships with the characters of the new world they were facing, maintaining narrative coherence and the dynamics of their adventures.
    This objective shaped, before shooting, the casting choices – always crucial – and the significant work of adapting and revising the text, also with the actors. And of course, on set, the work on performance. In Green Family the shooting technique was positively conditioned by a discriminating criterion that was first narrative and (immediately afterwards) aesthetic. In the case of a comedy,
    alongside this dual criterion, equally important is the respect for and enhancement of the comic register, of the chosen humorous key. Consistency and cohesion of these guiding principles, therefore, shaped all of my directorial work on the film. Finally, more generally, the cinematography, editing and soundtrack of Green Family were also aimed at contributing decisively to the brio, rhythm and tone of the film – essential elements for a comedy.

    Giambattista Avellino
Directed by
  • GIAMBATTISTA AVELLINO
Story and screenplay
  • MICHELE ABATANTUONO and LARA PRANDO
Produced by
  • MARIA THERESIA BRAUN
  • ROBERTO AMOROSO for ALFRED FILM
Produced by
  • SONIA ROVAI
  • with CLAUDIO FALCONI
  • for WILDSIDE
A production
  • WILDSIDE, a Fremantle Group Company
  • ALFRED FILM and VISION DISTRIBUTION
In collaboration with
  • SKY
In collaboration with
  • DISNEY+
Executive producers
  • SAVERIO GUARASCIO
  • MANDELLA QUILICI
  • GIANLUCA MIZZI
Delegate Producer
  • DANIELE FABRIZI
Creative producer
  • MICHELE ABATANTUONO and LARA PRANDO
Editing
  • LUCIANA PANDOLFELLI
Scenography
  • MAURIZIO LEONARDI
Director of photography
  • ROBERTO FORZA C.C.S.
Costumes
  • CHIARA FERRANTINI
Music
  • FRANCESCO CERASI
  • Edizioni 4201 Music agency srl – La Pop srl – GDM Music
Assistant Director
  • ANDREA VELLUCCI (A.I.A.R.S.E.)
Live sound
  • FILIPPO PORCARI
  • FEDERICA RIPANI
Casting
  • VALERIA MIRANDA U.I.C.D.
  • FLAVIA POERIO U.I.C.D.
General organizer
  • ALBERTO MARIA BRUSCO
work created with the contribution of the
  • MINISTERO DELLA CULTURA – Fondo per la sviluppo degli investimenti nel cinema e nell’audiovisivo
Distributed by
  • VISION DISTRIBUTION
Director's notes
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The theme of GREEN FAMILY is one of those universal ones that everyone knows in their bones, so to speak: the search for happiness. We’re all chasing after it, or at least in pursuit of it. This was the first element that drew my attention to the film. Its very “broad” universality, however, carries the risk of possible genericness or approximation. The narrative framework, the storytelling context chosen for this film, are nonetheless precise. They revolve around the clash between the metropolitan soul and rural life, the conflict between Nature (or at least, one idea of it) and Culture: the family at the heart of the story looked to country life as the solution to their personal dissatisfactions and existential struggles, with a stubborn will and desire. And a fragile illusion… This inner fault line in the protagonists of Green Family introduced the third convincing element that shaped the identity of the project: the comedy register allowed complex problems and dilemmas to be tackled with lightness. In making the film (which is always, in some way, an adaptation of a screenplay) one of the main goals was to keep both the comic impulses and the credibility of the characters and their family elationships within the comedy register, as well as the social relationships with the characters of the new world they were facing, maintaining narrative coherence and the dynamics of their adventures.
This objective shaped, before shooting, the casting choices – always crucial – and the significant work of adapting and revising the text, also with the actors. And of course, on set, the work on performance. In Green Family the shooting technique was positively conditioned by a discriminating criterion that was first narrative and (immediately afterwards) aesthetic. In the case of a comedy,
alongside this dual criterion, equally important is the respect for and enhancement of the comic register, of the chosen humorous key. Consistency and cohesion of these guiding principles, therefore, shaped all of my directorial work on the film. Finally, more generally, the cinematography, editing and soundtrack of Green Family were also aimed at contributing decisively to the brio, rhythm and tone of the film – essential elements for a comedy.

Giambattista Avellino