The Wonders (film)

The Wonders (Italian: Le meraviglie) is a 2014 Italian drama film directed by Alice Rohrwacher. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, where it was awarded with the Grand Prix.

Plot

Gelsomina and her three younger sisters live with their parents on a farm in the Italian countryside. As the eldest child she takes on a heavier burden taking care of her younger sisters and assisting her father with bee keeping. One day as the family is playing on the beach after a long day they are told to quit making so much noise and discover that a short distance away a TV show is being filmed. They watch the show being filmed and as they are about to leave the star of the show, Milly, calls them over and gives Gelsomina a hair clip to keep.

Watching the program they were filming on TV Gelsomina learns that the program is launching a competition called Countryside Wonders where seven farmers will compete to have their products featured on the show. While her father, Wolfgang, is violently against the family competing her mother warms to the idea despite the fact that the standards of their honey production are not up to par.