Director: Margherita Vicario
A grubby port town becomes the backdrop for a story about women who refuse to stay small, in this 2024 Italian crime drama built around loyalty, survival, and a slow-burning act of defiance.
What is Gloria about?
Set among small-time hustlers and the men who think they run the docks, the film follows an aging woman with a reputation nobody quite respects until they have to. When a new threat forces the local crews into an uneasy standoff, she finds unexpected allies among a handful of women who have spent their lives underestimated by the same men now scrambling to hold their turf. What starts as a matter of pride curdles into something closer to a reckoning, as old debts and older grudges surface. Margherita Vicario directs with an eye for texture — cracked plaster, cheap bars, the particular boredom of men who mistake menace for authority — letting the tension build through gesture and silence rather than exposition. The ensemble carries long stretches without dialogue, trusting glances and posture to do the work. By the time the different threads converge, the story has quietly shifted from a tale about turf to one about who actually gets to decide how it ends.
Cast & crew
Galatea Bellugi and Carlotta Gamba anchor the ensemble alongside Veronica Lucchesi, with Paolo Rossi and Natalino Balasso rounding out the local cast of small-time operators and hangers-on.
Context & significance
Gloria! arrives from Italy and Switzerland as a 2024 crime-drama-thriller, running 108 minutes under Margherita Vicario's direction. It sits within a wave of European genre films that use crime-world settings to examine who holds power in rooms where nobody expects women to.
Where & how to watch
Gloria! streams on K-Time with Persian subtitles, alongside the platform's wider library of international titles. The film's page is free to browse without an account; watching the film itself requires logging into K-Time first, where the interface and search are built around a Farsi-first experience for Persian-speaking audiences.