The Fire Within You

The Fire Within You (2026)

Drama

Antonio, who fled Naples many years ago, has built a family and a successful career in Milan, far from his mother Angela — a woman excessive in both her virtues and her flaws, irresistible, old-fashioned and hostile like few others — who has come to visit for Christmas and seems determined to stay. Christmas Eve dinner becomes an emotional battlefield, at once comic and fierce, bringing to the surface a past of impositions and misunderstandings. With a stubborn capon that refuses to end up in the pot, a daughter whose arrival remains uncertain, and an unexpected distinguished guest, the evening turns into a reckoning between mother and son destined to change the meaning of their bond forever: a love that burns like a fire within, one that never dies out — not even by leaving.

Director: Edoardo De Angelis
Writers: Francesco Piccolo, Ilaria Macchia, Edoardo De Angelis.

Casts

	Vanessa Scalera as
	Lino Musella as
	Elena Radonicich as
	Ivana Lotito as
	Tommaso Ragno as
	Nicole Malaj as
	Samuele Mazza as
	Toni Laudadio as

Crew