Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Italian period drama “My Place Is Here” is being released in Italy by Adler Ent.
on May 9, and is being sold at Cannes by Beta Cinema. Variety speaks to the film’s directors, Daniela Porto and Cristiano Bortone, and debuts its trailer (below). “My Place Is Here” is set in the years following the end of World War II.
Women have just been given the vote in Italy, but in Calabria, a conservative rural region in Southern Italy, men still rule the roost.
An unmarried single mother, Marta, who is deemed to have brought shame on her family, has been promised to an older farmer as his wife.
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