For each of us, Christmas dinner means something different. Some people enjoy spending a day with their family, others spend it wondering why they have to sit at the table with relatives they never see. Then there are those who choose to spend it with friends, and those who end up organizing something with complete strangers.
In short, everyone has their own Christmas dinner, and cinema and television have been able to reflect and tell many different versions of it.

From The Holdovers to Harry Potter, from The Bear to Green Book, we selected 10 titles that show us that there is no single right way to celebrate Christmas.

1. The Bear – S2E6

2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

3. Beetlejuice

4. A Christmas Story

5. Gremlins

6. Bridget Jones’s Diary

7. Green Book

8. How the Grinch Stole Christmas

9. Elf

10. The Holdovers

Food in cinema is never neutral.
Listen to Gusto Visivo, the podcast by Fatima El Mouh and Federica Orlandini produced by Collater.al, which explores what happens when food becomes a cinematic language.