‘There’s Still Tomorrow’ Trailer: Paola Cortellesi’s Lauded Italian Dramedy Debuts Stateside

Writer/director Paola Cortellesi‘s first feature film “There’s Still Tomorrow” didn’t just win six Italian Academy Awards – it also became one of the highest grossing films of all time in Italy.

Cortellesi, who cowrote the script with Furio Andreotti and Giulia Calenda, also stars in the dramedy about a woman who reclaims her life in post-war 1940s Rome.

The official synopsis reads: “Delia (Cortellesi) is a a working-class wife and mother trapped in a toxic marriage. American G.I.s still patrol the streets, but change is in the air. Yet everything remains the same for Delia, whose romantic fantasies have given way to an embrace of her roles as dutiful wife and loving mother despite the sneering condescension and outright physical abuse at the hands of her strutting petty tyrant husband Ivano (Valerio Mastandrea). His misogyny is only exceeded by his bedridden father’s whose care falls to Delia in between her myriad other chores and odd jobs. Delia sees the engagement of her daughter Marcella (Romana Maggiora Vergano) to her middle-class boyfriend as the girl’s big opportunity to avoid her same fate. But everything changes when a mysterious letter arrives and fires up Delia’s courage to turn the tables and start striving for a better life – and not just for herself.”

Giorgio Colangeli, Emanuela Fanelli, and Francesco Centorame also star.

“There’s Still Tomorrow” became the highest grossing film in Italy in 2023 and placed in the top 10 highest grossing Italian films ever. The feature went on to win six Italian Academy Awards, including Best Film, Best New Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and the Audience Award.

“There’s Still Tomorrow” is produced by Wildside, a Fremantle company, along with Vision Distribution, a Sky company, Mario Gianani, and Lorenzo Gangarossa. The film is executive produced by Ludovica Rapisarda, Saverio Guarascio, Mangella Quilici, and Gianluca Mizzi.

As for other international awards contenders, IndieWire predicts that Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez,” Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here,” Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” Gints Zilbalodis’
“Flow,” and Rich Peppiatt’s “Kneecap” are among the Oscars frontrunners. Additional films “Armand,”
“Dahomey,” “The Girl With the Needle,” “Universal Language,” and “Vermiglio” are also Best International Feature selects.

“There’s Still Tomorrow” premieres in theaters March 7 from Greenwich Entertainment. Check out the trailer below.