The Life Ahead, a new Italian film starring the legendary Sophia Loren, received the Humanitarian Award at the 25th Annual Capri, Hollywood International Film Festival, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The film fest, which is being held virtually this year, runs from Dec. 26 to Jan. 2 in Capri, Italy.
Loren, 86, had not appeared in a feature film in 11 years or played a lead role in 16 years prior to her return in The Life Ahead.
In the film, Madame Rosa (Loren), an aging Holocaust survivor who offers day care for the children of local prostitutes, forges an unlikely bond with a bitter street kid (Ibrahima Gueye) who robbed her.
Gueye, 14, delivers an incredible performance as well.
Critics and audiences are raving about the performance, and many are calling for Loren to take home the Academy Award for Best Actress (she last won an Oscar in 1962 for her raw and unflinching role as Cesira in the post-WWII foreign language anti-war film “Two Women“).
Watch the trailer here:
