THE LUNCH

A LETTER TO
AMERICA

Where to watch the film

Emilia Romagna

Bellaria-Igea Marina — Palazzo del Turismo (Bellaria Film Festival) 9 maggio 2026, ore 20:00 · biglietti

Bologna — Cinema Galliera 12 maggio 2026, ore 21:00 · biglietti

lazio

Roma — Cinema Nuovo Sacher
13 maggio 2026, ore ORA · biglietti

lombardia

Mantova — Cinema del Carbone
14, 15 e 18 maggio 2026, ore ORA · biglietti

Milano — Cinema Ariosto
20 maggio 2026, ore ORA · biglietti

piemonte

Torino — Cinema Massimo
26 maggio 2026, ore ORA · biglietti

toscana

veneto

campania

liguria

friuli venezia giulia

umbria

marche

puglia

sardegna

\ Theatrical Release

This movie was carefully realized for a cinematic experience.

In this page you’ll find the list of Italian regions where the film is expected to travel over the coming weeks and months. Regions with confirmed dates and ticket links are already live; the others are part of an ongoing distribution and will be filled in as soon as new screenings are scheduled. If you don’t see your region yet, check back — this page is updated regularly.

A few words before you scroll down.

We made this film to be seen in a cinema. Not because watching it on a phone or a laptop is wrong — it isn’t, and we know that for many people that’s the only realistic option — but because something happens in a darkened room with strangers that doesn’t happen anywhere else. The screen is bigger than you. The sound surrounds you. You can’t pause, and you can’t half-watch while answering a message. For two hours you give the film your full attention, and it gives you back its full weight.

For a political film, that weight matters even more. A political film isn’t a private object. It’s a question posed in public — about who we are, about what we are willing to see, about what we are prepared to do with what we see. When you watch it alone, the question stays inside you. When you watch it in a room of fifty or a hundred other people, something else happens: you feel them flinch, hold their breath, laugh in the unexpected places, applaud or sit in silence at the end. You realise you are not the only one being asked. The question becomes something a community is being asked, together, in real time. That is an experience a screen at home cannot give you.

There is also something a cinema does for a film that streaming cannot: it keeps it alive. Every ticket sold, every full house, every queue outside a small independent theatre is a small political act of its own — a vote for the kind of culture we want to keep around us. Independent cinemas, festivals, neighbourhood arthouses are the places where films like this one are made possible in the first place. Going to see it there, paying for the ticket, talking about it afterwards with the person next to you — all of that is part of the film’s life, not separate from it.

So: please come. Bring someone with you. Sit through the credits. Stay for the conversation if there is one. And if your region isn’t on the list yet and you’d like the film to reach a theatre near you, get in touch — we’re listening, and a request from a town, a venue, or an audience is very often what makes a new date appear on this page.

The regions are listed alphabetically below. Open the one closest to you to see whether a date has been confirmed.