The Fire Within You (2026)

Years after escaping Naples, Antonio has carved out a new life in Milan—a thriving career, a family of his own—worlds apart from his mother Angela, a force of nature whose virtues and vices are equally outsized. She’s magnetic, anachronistic, and fiercely prickly, and she’s arrived for the holidays with no intention of leaving. What begins as a Christmas Eve dinner spirals into a raw, darkly comic showdown, dragging decades of resentment and unspoken demands into the open. Between a stubborn capon that won’t meet its fate, a daughter whose arrival hangs in doubt, and an unexpected guest of distinction, the night becomes an emotional standoff that forces mother and son to confront the ties that bind them—and the blaze of love that, no matter the distance, refuses to be extinguished.