MidAugust Lunch originally released as Pranzo di ferragosto is a 2008 Italian comedydrama and the directorial debut of Italian actor and screenwriter Gianni Di Gregorio. It was produced by Italian writerdirector Matteo Garrone whose 2008 film Gomorrah was cowritten by Di Gregorio. It currently is being distributed in the US by Zeitgeist Films.
The film won the Grand Prix Award and the Audience Award at the International Film Festival Bratislava, and also won the FIPRESCI Award. It was awarded the Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a First Feature Film at the 65th Venice Film Festival in 2008. Additionally, it won awards at several other film festivals including the David Di Donatello Awards, the Satyajit Ray Award at the London Film Festival, and the Golden Snail award at the Academy of Food and Film in Bologna.
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