The Hand of God

The Hand of God (È stata la mano di Dio, 2021) is an Italian autobiographical drama you can watch online on iFILM. Director Paolo Sorrentino returns to his own adolescence: Naples in the 1980s, a city crackling with noise and football fever, where teenager Fabietto Schisa (Filippo Scotti) drifts between a vivid extended family and the arrival of Diego Maradona at Napoli. Toni Servillo plays his father — understated, warm, quietly essential.

Then one afternoon a small decision — going to a match — puts Fabietto somewhere he would not otherwise have been, and that absence saves his life while everything else falls apart. Grief and cinema become the same escape route. The film won the Golden Globe for Best Non-English Language Film and earned an Academy Award nomination in the same category. Stream The Hand of God (2021) online on iFILM.