Italy’s Fandango has scored multiple sales on “Sweetheart” (“Gioia Mia”) the delicate generation gap drama by Margherita Spampinato who is being honored with Kering’s Emerging Talent Award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival . The fresh film about a cheeky young boy named Nico who is raised in a tech-savvy family and forced to spend the summer in a seaside Sicilian town with his grumpy and religious elderly aunt also recently won Italy’s David di Donatello award for best first work, while Aurora Quattrocchi, who plays the elderly aunt known as Zia Gela, scooped the actress David. In the film, Nico and Gela’s initial wariness soon gives way to friendship. To Nico’s amazement, the mysterious house where Gela lives with her faithful dog is actually full of secrets. And, some claim, vengeful Sicilian spirits. Popular on Variety Produced by Benedetta Scagnelli and Alessio Pasqua for Yagi Media and Arcopinto, “Sweetheart” launched from the Locarno Film Festival.…