The Marche region continues to prove itself as a hub for film productions: from July 23 2026 the director’s Eleonora Puglia debut feature has arrived in theaters, fully shot among historic villages, beaches, and lively towns of the Marche. Let us together discover the locations of Blue.
What it’s about
Luce, the film’s protagonist portrayed by Alexia Cozzi, is a girl from a good family. Neither her friends nor, above all, her father, the character played by Rocco Siffredi—a true highlight of the cast—seem to look kindly upon her relationship with Loris: a young mechanic who moves in ambiguous circles.
When the guy ends up in trouble and needs money to get out of it, the only one to help Luce is Vicky: a friend who earns money by publishing content on Blue, an adult platform. A single night online is enough for Luce to settle Loris’s debt. From this experience, however, the girl comes out changed and grown: inevitably, her relationship with her boyfriend will not be the same.
Where it was filmed
Produced with the support of the Fondazione Marche Cultura and the Marche Film Commission, the film Blue was shot in Offida, Fermo and Porto San Giorgio, involving a large number of local businesses and extras and succeeding, as has been repeatedly emphasized during screenings and premieres, in highlighting the artistic-cultural heritage of the area.
Offida
Filming in Offida took place in parallel with the Offida Carnival: a traditional festival that is celebrated from mid-January to Ash Wednesday and that, every year, draws a large number of visitors to the Marche village.
The highlight of the carnival is the sfilata del bove finto of Fat Tuesday: the silhouette of a bull made of wood and iron is carried on the shoulders of two men through the city until it arrives at the main square, where the crowd in traditional costumes incites it and gives life to a spectacle reminiscent of a bullfight.
To make this tradition even more evocative, just as with the vlurd of Fat Tuesday that effectively “sets the carnival on fire,” Offida’s medieval layout—which remains quite evident—contributes to the atmosphere: the town is surrounded by fortified walls and towers, and its strongest symbol is undoubtedly the ancient fortress perched on cliffs on which the Gothic-Romanesque church Santa Maria della Rocca now stands.
Fermo
Also in Fermo, another Marche town where Blue was filmed, the medieval origins remain evident in the tight cobbled streets laid in terracotta and lined with low houses sporting dark façades. The most attentive viewers will recognize the city’s viewpoints on screen, especially those from the Colle del Grifalco, which is the highest point of the city and dominates the Adriatic, the Sibillini Mountains, and the Conero.
Porto San Giorgio
Among the Blue locations, Porto San Giorgio is the closest to the sea and to a certain notion of youthful, adrenaline-filled nightlife, though the area does not lack natural and scenic attractions—many beaches boast, indeed, the Blue Flag designation—and it also offers historical-cultural attractions.
The Rocca Tiepolo, for instance, was built at the end of the thirteenth century to defend the city from Saracen pirates. Villa Bonaparte, today a venue for private events, was for many years in the nineteenth century a holiday retreat of Napoleon’s brother. The early twentieth century saw the construction of the historic Teatro Vittorio Emanuele II. Along the seafront and beyond, there are splendid Liberty-style buildings such as Villa degli Oleandri.
