With exclusive access to the De Sica family, previously unseen archival materials and testimonies from artists and filmmakers including Wes Anderson, Isabella Rossellini, Ruben Östlund, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Francis Ford Coppola, Nicola Piovani and Asghar Farhadi, Vittorio De Sica – Staging Life builds an intimate, multifaceted portrait of a filmmaker who transformed the observation of reality into universal emotion. More than a celebration, the film explores the man, the artist and the modernity of a vision that continues to illuminate cinema and the way we see the world.