Cast: Ambra Angiolini, Edoardo Leo, Paolo Calabresi, Susy Laude, Pia Engleberth, Ennio Fantastichini, Manuel Pischedda
TORONTO
October 10, 2014
9:00 pm Screening
Tiff Bell Lightbox
350 King Street West
VAUGHAN
October 23, 2014
8:00 pm Screening
Colossus Vaughan
3555 Highway 7 West
Non members
$ 13+hst Movie Ticket
*Same-day tickets are available at the participating venue one hour before the screening
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
Once upon a time, at the front door of his therapist, the shy and weird Roberto (Edoardo Leo) meets the charming as well as ditsy Bea (Ambra Angiolini).
He’s a kleptomaniac and writes unfortunate fairytales which terrify all the kids listening to them. She is an elementary school teacher, narcoleptic and suffering of sudden and unpredictable amnesia. For this reason she takes note of anything happening to her day by day in a big red book.
Among petty theft and unexpected naps, escapes and chases, their relationship progresses and they finally fall in love. But one day, Bea faints again and loses her memory and can’t remember anything. Including her life with Roberto…
Plot
It’s not the most challenging rock wall in the world, but it is simply the most challenging rock wall I have ever climbed. It is a long story that started when, for the first time, I asked myself about the place where the sun set every night. Eternity must be hidden there. It is small and vertically démodé, existing in a remote and forgotten place among these mountains, in between the place I was born and the places I have lived.
Awards
Trento Film Festival
Trama
Non è la via più difficile del mondo, è semplicemente la via “sportiva” più difficile che ho scalato. Ha una storia lunga e comincia quando mi sono chiesto la prima volta come potevano essere quei luoghi dove ogni sera andava a morire il sole. L’eternità è nascosta proprio lassù, in un ambiente solitario e dimenticato di queste montagne, piccola e verticalmente démodé, a metà fra i luoghi dove sono nato e quelli dove sono vissuto.
Cast: Riccardo Scarafoni, Pino Quartullo
Plot
It’s the wild west. A man is crossing the desert and becoming more and more desperate. He is barely able to walk, and he is dehydrated. When, across the barren land, he sees a flower and he knows he is going to survive. He rushes to a small stream of water, and as he is about to drink the water, a deep voice from across the stream stops him from drinking. The voice belongs to a gunman, and his name is Daniel….
Awards
Miglior regia, 15 Minutes of Fame
Miglior fotografia, Vagón 2012
Trama
Il vecchio west. Un uomo vaga disperato nel deserto. Le gambe non lo reggono più, è del tutto disidratato, sta morendo di sete. Quando, tra tutta quella terra senza vita, vede un fiore, capisce che può ancora salvarsi. Arrivato ad un ruscello mette le mani nell’acqua fresca, le porta alla bocca, è sul punto… Continue reading
Cast: Fabio Boddi, Simona Calitri, Mario Giansanti, Gianluca Gori, Giuditta, Natali Elmi, Jessica Scheggi
Plot
In Venice, waves seem to have lost their peaceful sound and have acquired a mysterious aura.
A pall of fear is cast over the citizens, who are gripped by incipient insomnia.
What if they confused those strange repetitive noises with the hiccups of another citizen who can’t stop sobbing?
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
Awards
Best Short Film, Festival Young Station
Best Director, Festival Internazionale del Cinema Patologico
Best Short Film, Video Concorso Francesco Pasinetti
Best Short Film, Umbria Film Festival
Trama
A Venezia, il piacevole sciabordio delle onde si è tramutato in un rumore misterioso che inquieta i veneziani al punto che faticano a dormire.
E se stessero confondendo quegli strani rumori con dei singhiozzi inarrestabili?
Premi
Best Short… Continue reading
Cast: Antonio Andrisani, Oriana Celentano, Enzo Saponara, Carlo De Ruggieri, Alberto Rubini, Pasquale Pozzuoli, Vincenzo Forcillo, Claudio Salvato
Plot
Sir Pacucci is a genius in the Funeral Arts business in Matera, the city often used as the background for biblical films by directors from Pierpaolo Pasolini to Mel Gibson.
Awards
Nastro d’Argento 2012
Trama
Il Cavalier Pacucci, un genio dell’imprenditoria Funebre della città di Matera,famosa per aver fatto da sfondo ai molti film Biblici da Piepraolo Pasolini a Mel Gibson.
Premi
Nastro d’Argento 2012
Cast: Valerio Malorni, Josafat Vagni
Plot
Francesco and Luca, two former schoolmates, meet on the street many years after not seeing each other. Luca survives by working two jobs, and Francesco is a beggar, but nothing is what it seems.
Trama
Francesco e Luca, due ex compagni di scuola, si incontrano per strada molti anni dopo. Luca sopravvive lavorando due lavori, e Francesco è un mendicante, ma nulla è ciò che sembra.
Cast: Luciano Manzalini, Stefano Sarcinelli, Alice Sibani
Plot
A successful, self-made man meets his antithesis during what he thinks is the perfect night. This comedy showcases a modern war between classes.
Awards
Finalist Nastri d’Argento 2013
Trama
Un uomo di successo incontra la sua antitesi durante quello che lui pensa sia la notte perfetta. Questa commedia mette in mostra una guerra moderna tra le classi.
Awards
Finalist Nastri d’Argento 2013
Cast: With Josep Vilavert Manyà, Elena España
Plot
An older man searches for happiness in the photographs of his past life with his wife. The past and the present, two realities separated by the inability to dream.
Awards
Best Short Film, Short Soup International Film Festival
Best Film Award, Wordless International Short Film Festival
Plot
Un anziano cerca la felicità tra le fotografie della sua vita passata con la moglie. Il passato e il presente, due realtà separate dall’incapacità di sognare.
Awards
Best Short Film, Short Soup International Film Festival
Best Film Award, Wordless International Short Film Festival
Cast: Rebecca Metcalf, Marco Lecciso, Lucia Fanuli, Maria Pia Autorino, Raffaella Quaranta, Sara Aprile
Plot
Sud Italia, 1935. La vera storia della dodicenne Bianca Panarese: il suo duro apprendistato come operaia in una fabbrica di tabacco, e il suo amore per il fratello quindicenne Pietro, ucciso durante le proteste contro la chiusura del Tabacchificio.
Plot
Jane ha pianificato una notte speciale per il suo fidanzato che è di ritorno da un viaggio di lavoro. Benché sappia perfettamente che la relazione tra lei e Graham è insolita, il pensiero di lui la fa sentire desiderata, e quindi tiene la sua vita personale privata.
Quando degli amici incuriositi dalla situazione le fanno delle domande, Jane inizia a mettere in discussione la sua relazione non convenzionale con Graham. Gli eventi della giornata la forzano a tentare di cambiare le cose, ma le abitudini sono dure a morire.
Cast: Cassie Nadeau, Robyn Kay Pilarski, Matthew Gin, Nancy Morrison, Julien Kuehnhold, Pierrecedric Kuehnhold, Graham Robinson
Plot
Jane has planned a special night for her fiancé, who is returning home from a work trip. She knows she has an unusual relationship with Graham but the thought of him makes her feel desired, so she keeps her personal life private.
When curious friends pry, she questions her unconventional relationship with her fiancé. The events of the day force Jane to try and change her situation, but habits are hard to break
Plot
Jane ha pianificato una notte speciale per il suo fidanzato che è di ritorno da un viaggio di lavoro. Benché sappia perfettamente che la relazione tra lei e Graham è insolita, il pensiero di lui la fa sentire desiderata, e quindi tiene la sua vita personale privata.
Quando degli amici incuriositi dalla situazione le fanno delle domande, Jane inizia a mettere in discussione la sua relazione non convenzionale con Graham. Gli eventi della… Continue reading
Cast: Matteo de Cola, Tara Joshi, Genevieve Lauren
Plot
A tale of love, sorrow and re-birth follows the life of a young energetic couple full of dreams for the future. Lee is a very talented composer on his way up and his beautiful girlfriend Isabella cannot be more proud. One fateful night a tragic event shatters their dreams forever, raising a hard choice that grants Catherine the greatest gift of all.
Plot
Una storia d’amore, dolore e rinascita si intreccia alla vita di una giovane coppia, carica di sogni per il futuro. Lee è un compositore di talento sulla strada verso il successo, e Isabella, la sua fidanzata, non potrebbe esserne più orgogliosa. Finché una notte un evento tragico farà a pezzi i loro sogni, mettendoli di fronte a una scelta difficile che garantirà a Catherine il più bel dono della sua vita.
Cast: Tony Maiorino
Plot
Melodico chronicles the life of Tony Maiorino, a modern-day Italian immigrant living in the Bronx’s Little Italy. On the surface, Tony is a normal guy – he runs a barbershop, he has a family, and he has vices, but Tony also hides a passion. Between customers, the barber turns singer and trades in his scissors for a keyboard and a microphone. The film follows Tony after the announcement that he will be singing at the local Feast of Saint Anthony, the largest Italian event in New York City. Tony’s journey to the stage portrays not only his life, but also that of an entire community in its search for solidarity for its traditions and its nostalgia for a landscape left behind.
Plot
Melodico racconta la vita di Tony Maiorino, un immigrato italiano moderno nel quartiere Little Italy del Bronx. In superficie, Tony è un ragazzo normale – un barbiere con la propria una famiglia ed i propri vizi. Però Tony nasconde anche… Continue reading
Cast: Matilde Da Silva, Luca Di Costanzo
Plot
Despite a shy nature, Matilde is a child with a dynamic intelligence and a strong spirit. In her classroom, however, something is upsetting her. Combining the suggestions received from her teacher, the interest in the tools of her hairdresser mother and her passion for tennis, Matilde looks for a drastic and original solution to find the serenity.
Awards
Best Italian Short in RIFF
Plot
Pur essendo di poche parole, Matilde è una bambina dall’intelligenza vivace e dalla personalità spiccata. Tra i banchi di scuola, però, c’è qualcosa che sembra turbarla. Combinando i suggerimenti ricevuti dal suo maestro, l’interesse per gli strumenti da parrucchiera della madre e la passione per il tennis, Matilde cerca una soluzione drastica e sorprendente per ritrovare la serenità.
Awards
Best Italian Short in RIFF
Cast: Erika Blanc, Davide Colavini, Boris Makaresk
Plot
In a psychiatric hospital’s waiting room, a possessive mother, accompanied by her husband, meets with their son, who is refusing to speak. By the end of the visit, the son won’t be going back to his ward.
Awards
Best short, Gallura Tour Festival
Best short, Sguardi, cinema indipendente
Plot
Nella sala d’attesa di un ospedale psichiatrico, una madre possessiva, accompagnata dal marito, incontra il figlio che non parla più. Alla fine della visita, il figlio non tornerà piu al suo reparto.
Awards
Best short, Gallura Tour Festival
Best short, Sguardi, cinema indipendente
Cast: Elisa Forti, Federico Mariotti, Stefano Martinelli, Santa Pellino
Plot
A couple of friends are on a nature hike. What was to be a quiet and relaxing day soon becomes a nightmare.
Awards
Best Short Film, Fear Fête Horror Film Festival
Best Short, Festival de Cine de Terror de Alicante
Plot
Un gruppo di amici si trovano a fare un escursione. Quella che doveva essere una giornata tranquilla e rilassante si trasforma ben presto in un incubo.
Awards
Best Short Film, Fear Fête Horror Film Festival
Best Short, Festival de Cine de Terror de Alicante
Plot
Io so chi sono represents the need for escape, leaving one’s homeland to look for new horizons and new perspectives (in fact, one of its key images is the luggage symbolizing the journey and the very act of moving away). At the same time, the narrator says “I am my own grandfather and my father, the house where I was born…” thus underlining, somehow, the impossibility of an actual and true escape, a decisive cut with the past.
Plot
Io so chi sono rappresenta il bisogno di fuga, di allontanamento dalla propria terra d’origine, in cerca di nuovi orizzonti e di nuove prospettive (infatti, una delle immagini-chiave del film è la valigia come simbolo del viaggio e dell’allontanamento), ma, contemporaneamente, la voce narrante dice “sono mio nonno e mio padre, la casa dove sono nato…” sottolineando in un certo senso l’impossibilità a priori di una vera e propria fuga e… Continue reading
Cast: Alessandro Mercurio, Laurence Tremblay-Vu, Caterina Rossi, Francesca Pala.
Plot
In the last few years, the migratory flux from Italy to Canada has become once again a contentious reality. Hundreds of young and not-so-young people looking for a better future are coming to ‘invade’ North America. This short aims at representing and questioning this new form of immigration.
Plot
Negli ultimi anni, il flusso migratorio proveniente dall’Italia ha ricominciato ad essere molto presente in terra canadese. Centinaia di giovani (e meno giovani) in cerca di un futuro migliore, sono tornati ad “invadere” il Nord America. Il cortometraggio vuole rappresentare e interrogare questa nuova forma di immigrazione.
Cast: Julian Sands, Nastassja Kinski, Enrico Lo Verso
Plot
On the eve of their respective open-heart surgeries, Matteo and Sonia forge a friendship through a mutual passion for mountaineering and a promise to climb together in the Dolomites, in Trentino, Italy. Will their hearts survive the challenge? Though Sonia’s husband Mark worries about his wife and feels threatened by Matteo, the two aim for the summit, opening the route to a new beginning and a second chance at life.
Plot
Alla vigilia dei loro rispettivi interventi chirurgici a cuore aperto, Matteo e Sonia stringono un’amicizia attraverso una comune passione per l’alpinismo e la promessa di salire insieme sulle Dolomiti, in Trentino. Potranno i loro cuori sopravvivere alla sfida? Anche se il marito di Sonia, Mark, si preoccupa per la moglie e si sente minacciato da Matteo, i due puntano sulla vetta aprendo la via ad un nuovo inizio e a una seconda possibilità alla vita.
Plot
Tobacco is a mainstay of Italian agriculture. It represents a foundation for some regional economies. A reportage on the pros and cons of this controversial issue.
Plot
Importante pilastro dell’agricoltura in Italia, cardine dell’economia di alcune regioni come l’Umbria, il Veneto, la Campania, la Toscana e il Lazio e per decenni importantissima fonte di manodopera. Ma oggi la coltivazione del tabacco “non è più come una volta”, con l’avvento dei sistemi di produzione industriali e il dilagare dell’utilizzo dei prodotti chimici tra i campi…
Cast: Franco Pistoni, Silvia Sodaro
Plot
In a small country church, an elderly local priest is kneeling in prayer. He is alone until he turns around to find 11-year-old Angelina standing behind him. She has an inquisitive look in her eyes and she will question the priest on faith, God and the essence of life.
Awards
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Plot
In una piccola chiesa di campagna, un vecchio prete si trova raccolto in preghiera. Lui è solo finché vede l’undicenne Angelina in piedi dietro di lui. Vede uno sguardo curioso nei suoi occhi. La bambina interrogherà il sacerdote sulla fede, Dio, e l’essenza della vita.
Awards
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Cast: Roberto Herlitzka, Alberto Rubini, Claudio Salvato, Terry Paternoster, Teresa Amendola, Giovanni Montarulo, Giovanni Cirrottola
Plot
The tragic death of Giovanni’s son is told through the lens of the mythical book of Genesis and the story of the farmer and his friend the tree. We are witnesses to the quiet and difficult path travelled by Giovanni to placate his pain. In this manner, memories resurface, the soul finds peace, and tears create a conversation.
Plot
Attraverso il testo mitico per eccellenza, Genesi, e ricordando l’antico rituale contadino dell’albero amico, viene raccontata l’esperienza tragica della morte di un figlio e mostrata la via delicata e silenziosa percorsa da Giovanni per superare il dolore. Così i ricordi affiorano, l’animo si placa e il pianto si fa discorso.
Cast: Patrizia Mottola, Lucia Gadolini
Plot
“I have always had strong arms. They do get like that, of course, when one is born with soft legs, without bones.”
Awards
Cartoons on the Bay 2011
Best Animated Film at Lola Kenya Screen 2011
Best Fantastic Film at Ghedi Film Festival 2012
Plot
“Ho sempre avuto le braccia robuste. Ti diventano per forza così, quando nasci con le gambe molli, senza ossa.”
Awards
Cartoons on the Bay 2011
Best Animated Film at Lola Kenya Screen 2011
Best Fantastic Film at Ghedi Film Festival 2012
Cast: Alessio Vassallo, Paolo Sassanelli, Mauro Conte, Michele Botrugno
Plot
In 1978, during the time former Prime Minister Aldo Moro was held by kidnappers, the Italian army played a large role in the investigations. For the first time ever, new recruits participated in police checkpoints. “Fratelli Minori” is set in May 9, 1978, one of the many days spent waiting to find Mr. Moro – a quiet, seemingly ordinary day.
Plot
Nel 1978 durante il sequestro dell’ex Primo Ministro Aldo Moro, l’esercito italiano ha giocato un ruolo importante nelle indagini. Per la prima volta in assoluto, nuove reclute hanno partecipato ai posti di blocco della polizia. “Fratelli Minori” si svolge nel 9 maggio del 1978, uno dei tanti giorni di attesa per trovare Aldo Moro – una giornata tranquilla, in superficie solo simile agli altri.
Plot
The issue of violence against women, which often culminates in murder, rarely dominates the headlines. There is no census, no culture, no proximity or previous experience of violence that triggers a well identifiable cause/effect relationship. The phenomenon crosses a wide ethnic spectrum; it hits in the most unexpected places and spreads, emerging from the marshes of silence only proportionately to the degree of emancipation and freedom reached by women. This story is freely inspired by a real-life event that took place near Naples on July 2, 2012.
Plot
La violenza sulle donne, che trova il suo apice nel femminicidio, non ha una matrice dominante. Non c’è un censo, una cultura, una prossimità, o un’esperienza di violenze che inneschi un rapporto causa/effetto ben identificabile. Il fenomeno è trasversale, colpisce nei luoghi più imprevisti e dilaga, emergendo dalle paludi della reticenza solo in proporzione al grado di emancipazione raggiunto dalle donne.
L’episodio raccontato nel corto è ispirato a un fatto di cronaca accaduto… Continue reading
Cast: Marcello Sambati
Plot
Inmate A1002 is lucky enough to be able to rely on a hole in the wall of his cell where every day at dawn a pin of light, with the help of a mirror, decorated with a yellow wooden sun’s corona, wakes him up, heating and caressing him. From this hole, A1002 has always peeked the external reality, admiring the meadows, the trees and their shadows, but the day of his liberation, which he has waited for and dreamed of for so long, is destined to disappoint him.
Awards
Best Short International Festival CineMadeInLazio
Best soundtrack International Festival CortoMed
Plot
Il detenuto A1002 ha la fortuna di poter confidare in un buco nel muro della cella dove ogni giorno all’alba uno spillo di luce, con la complicità di uno specchietto, decorato da una corona solare in legno giallo, lo sveglia, lo riscalda, lo accarezza. Da questo buco A1002 ha sempre sbirciato la realtà esterna, ne ha ammirato… Continue reading
Cast: Lauren Segal, Richard Troxell, Lubin Tasveski
Plot
Seduction and betrayal are the themes in this captivating cinematic rendition of the aria “Mon coeur s’ouvre a ta voix” from Camille Saint-Saens’ opera “Samson et Dalila”. Through this song Dalila tries to seduce Samson with the hope that he can reveal to her the secret of his strength.
Plot
Seduzione e tradimento sono i fili conduttori di quest’accattivante trasposizione cinematografica di “Mon coeur s’ouvre a ta voix”, un’aria tratta dal “Samson et Dalila” di Camille Saint-Saens. Attraverso il canto, Dalila tenta di sedurre Sansone nella speranza che lui le riveli il segreto della sua forza.
Cast: Filippo Pucillo, Giovanni Calcagno, Federico Rosati
Plot
The bloody revenge of a young tailor during the peasant revolt of Bronte, Sicily. Salvo, the land keeper, leads the rebels who want to take everything from the former baron, even something they
cannot have: his elegance.
Salvo chooses to spare the life of the baron’s personal tailor in return for a beautiful custom-made jacket. During the tailor’s sewing work, some tragic memories resurface, memories of a man tortured by unknown individuals. This is when the tailor finally reacts and challenges the land keeper’s indiscriminate rage. In an amazing duel between the two, under the bloody and wild Sicilian sun, the tailor pieces together the most tragic events of his life, fuelling his old plan for vengeance.
Awards
Best Short Film David di Donatello 2012
Best Short Film at Riff-Rome Independent Film Festival 2012
Winner of the Michelangelo Antonioni Prize for the Best Short Film at Bif&st 2012.
Plot
Sul… Continue reading
Cast: Salvatore Ruocco
Plot
Ciro is a fourteen-year-old boy who lives in Scampia. His days are spent going to school, working in a grocery store, and playing soccer. In Ciro’s neighbourhood, there are only two people he can rely on – his soccer coach and his friend Anna, an eighteen-year-old whom he has known since childhood.
A young man named Lello is the neighbourhood’s kingpin. In Ciro’s eyes, Lello represents power, fame and riches. Ciro admires Lello, and sees him as someone surrounded by people who admire and respect him. What Ciro doesn’t know is that his idol is destined to fall.
Plot
Ciro è un quattordicenne che vive a Scampia. Trascorre le sue giornate tra scuola, lavoro e calcio. Nel suo quartiere Ciro può contare solamente sul suo allenatore di calcio e Anna, diciottenne e amica d’infanzia. Lello, un giovane ragazzo del quartiere, è un boss.
Negli… Continue reading
Cast: Alessandro Tamburini, Anna Ferraioli Ravel, Giorgia Masseroni, Ciro
Zecca, Delia Pierangeli
Plot
The encounter between two human beings who think of themselves as imperfect.
A night journey through Rome looking for the key to access their own happiness.
Awards
CORTINAMETRAGGIO 2013 – Best Director: Alessandro Tamburini – Best Actress: Anna Ferraioli Ravel – Best dialogues: Alessandro Tamburini, Ciro Zecca
Plot
L’incontro di due esseri umani che si credono imperfetti.
Viaggio nella Roma notturna alla ricerca della giusta chiave per la loro serenità.
Premi
CORTINAMETRAGGIO 2013 – Best Director: Alessandro Tamburini – Best Actress: Anna Ferraioli Ravel – Best dialogues: Alessandro Tamburini, Ciro Zecca
Cast: Giorgio Colangeli, Francesco Montanari
Plot
Oreste and Madhi live their loneliness in opposite ways. Oreste’s background and his belief that he has already seen and experienced everything on the one hand, and Madhi’s difficulty in living in a foreign country create a funny combination of sarcasm and naiveté. A simple request for directions gives rise to a surreal and ironic encounter between the two protagonists.
Plot
Oreste e Madhi vivono la loro solitudine in modi diversi. Le esperienze di Oreste e la sua convinzione di aver già visto e sperimentato tutto nella vita, e la difficoltà di Madhi di vivere in un paese straniero creano una divertente combinazione di sarcasmo ed ingenuità. Una semplice richiesta di indicazioni stradali diventa il pretesto per un incontro surreale e ironico tra i due protagonisti.
IN PROGRAMMA
Giovedì 4 luglio, 2013
7:30 pm Ricevimento
9:30 pm Film
AMC Theatre, Cinema 24… Continue reading
Cast: Pier Giuseppe Giuffrida, Marcella Oliveri, Luciano Arena
Plot
Enzo Bellavista is a 77-year-old blind man who lives in a small town in Sicily with his wife Agata. One day he finds himself with a camcorder in his hands and makes an incredible discovery.
Plot
Enzo Bellavista è un signore cieco di 77 anni che vive con la moglie Agata in un paesino della Sicilia. Un giorno si ritrova una videocamera fra le mani e fa un’incredibile scoperta.
Zia and Friends documents the lives of a few residents living at a long-term care facility in Toronto. Most of them have dementia and they spend their days eating, sleeping and sitting around the nursing station as they wait for God. They’ve lost track of time, forgotten the names of loved ones, but they have not lost their sense of humour.
Zia and Friends racconta la vita di alcuni residenti di una casa di cura a Toronto. La maggior parte dei pazienti soffre di demenza e trascorre i propri giorni mangiando, dormendo e aspettando Dio in infermeria. Hanno perso la cognizione del tempo, dimenticato i nomi dei propri cari, ma gli resta ancora il senso dell’umorismo.
Cast: Justine Vella, Lazar, Lyne Tremblay, Jeanette Roxborough, Fabio Fabbri, Srdjan Nikolic, Patricia Marceau, Damiano Pietropaolo, Elisa Chiocca D’Alfonso
In the world of Sophocles (495-406 B.C.) gods are distant; their actions are often incomprehensible. Human laws are absolute and cannot be transgressed. Yet Antigone decides to break these laws. Her murdered brother must receive the respect she believes he is entitled to, regardless of the fact that he is considered a traitor. When Creon finally decides to grant Antigone her wish, it is too late. This 631-verse ancient Greek dramatic poem has been transposed to a contemporary North American city.
Gli dei creati da Sofocle (495-406 A.C.) sono distanti; le loro azioni sono spesso incomprensibili. Le leggi umane sono assolute e non possono essere trasgredite. Ma Antigone decide di romperle. Suo fratello assassinato deve ricevere il rispetto che merita, nonostante sia stato tacciato come traditore. Quando Creone decide finalmente di soddisfare il desiderio di Antigone,… Continue reading
Cast: Marcello Zappatore, Sandra Milo, Guja Jelo, Monica Nappo
Marcello Zappatore is a 33-year-old man from Lecce. He plays the electric guitar in a well-known local Satanist heavy metal band. His life is soon to be affected by an extraordinary event: an uncomfortable itch on the side of his rib cage that turns out to be a stigmata. Is it the sign of divine intervention or a call for change?
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
Marcello does not know the answer but he undertakes a deep and personal voyage in two very different and apparently incompatible worlds, that of God and that of Rock. He is accompanied by his bigoted mother, who tries to put him on the road to redemption by having him locked up in a monastery, and his grandmother, a very eccentric woman who incites him not to give up on Rock’n’Roll. Old and new friends alike, they all try to get Marcello to do the right thing. But what is the right… Continue reading
Cast: Michele Placido, Ambra Angiolini, Alessandro Gassman, Raoul Bova, Rocco Papaleo, Edoardo Leo, Maurizio Mattioli, Sarah Felberbaum
Michele Spagnolo is a strong politician with three children: Riccardo, a respected, socially engaged doctor, Susanna, a talentless TV fiction actress, and Valerio, a layabvout whose career has been helped by his father.
Saturday, June 29, 2013
5:00 pm Cinémathèque québécoise
Salle Claude Jutra
Montreal
Wednesday, July 3
7pm AMC Theatre
Cinema 24
30 Interchange Way,
Vaughan
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
In a career spanning thirty years, Michele has always put the interests of the community ahead of his personal wishes, and has passed unscathed through the myriad of scandals that have plagued his country.
After a night spent with a “promising” showgirl, Michele has a seizure, survives, but not without consequences.
The apoplexy struck the part of the brain that controls inhibitions and now Michele says anything that comes into his head and does whatever he wants without the slightest… Continue reading
Cast: Sergio Castellitto, Marco Giallini, Francesca Neri, Claudia Gerini, Carolina Crescentini, Eugenio Franceschini, Eugenia Costantini.
Leone, 50, is a powerful, rich and mysterious man. Despite his wealth, he feels extremely lonely. For the Christmas holidays he decides to hire an acting company to play the perfect family he has always dreamed of having.
Friday, June 28
6:30 pm Cinémathèque québécoise
Salle Claude Jutra
Montreal
Monday, July 1
7:30 pm Reception
9:30 pm Movie*
AMC Theatre, Cinema 24
30 Interchange Way,
Vaughan
Tuesday, July 2
7:00 pm
AMC Theatre, Cinema 24
30 Interchange Way,
Vaughan
Thursday, July 4
9:30 pm TIFF Bell LightBox
Cinema 2
350 King St W, Toronto
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
The story travels on two levels: one real and one scripted, as written by the protagonist. Gradually the two levels clash, the script is gradually ignored and the reality becomes part of the fiction; each role is continuously questioned until the final revelation that gives meaning to the whole story.
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Paolo Genovese
Genovese started working in advertising, creating more than one… Continue reading
Cast: Antonio Andrisani, Francesca Faiella, Ernesto Mahieux, Alfio Sorbello, Claudia Zanella.
Antonio Colucci, 46, dreamed of becoming a famous director of horror movies, but his first attempt was a complete failure.
Thursday, June 27
7:30 pm Reception
9:30 pm Movie*
AMC Theatre, Cinema 24
30 Interchange Way,
Vaughan
Friday, June 28
7:00 pm
AMC Theatre, Cinema 24
30 Interchange Way,
Vaughan
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
He gets married and has a son, but the monotonous routine of his life prevents him from pursuing his dream, as he remains stuck in the suburbs. Yet his aspiration keeps burning inside him. He finally decides to look for funds for a low-budget movie.
What he will eventually find out is that the dread surrounding him is much scarier than the horror movie he wants to shoot.
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Giuseppe Marco Albano
Albano is a writer, screenwriter and film director. In 2008, along with friends and collaborators, he founded the cultural organization “Basiliciak” aimed at promoting the cinema of the Basilicata region. In 2008 he wrote… Continue reading
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This movie narrates the stages of the tour taken by the Genoese comedian, Beppe Grillo: 40 days, 77 Italian squares.
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
This unreleased documentary has as its only protagonist the politician who is the phenomenon of the year. Included is an interview enriched by the opinions of various Italian and European citizens and journalists.
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Francesco G. Raganato
Francesco Giuseppe Raganato is a film director of documentaries and television programs. Some of his documentaries are “L’isola analogica” (The Analogical Island), winner of the International Award for Mediterranean Documentary and Reportage, L’isola delle colf (The Housekeepers’ Island) produced for RAI3DOC3, the series Fotografi (Photographers) produced by SKY Arte and five documentaries produced for the series La storia siamo noi (History is Us). A few of the television programs that he direcgted are two series of Delitti on channel 7 and the History Channel, Leader, Potere, Ti ci porto io on channel 7, and Un’altra vita on… Continue reading
Cast: Hiroshi Abe, Aya Ueto, Kazuki Kitamura, Riki Takeuchi, Kai Shishido, Midoriko Kimura, Bunmei Tobayama
Ancient Roman architect Lucius is too serious. His inability to keep up with the fast-moving times costs him his job.
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English
When a friend takes the dejected Lucius to the public bathhouse to cheer him up, Lucius accidentally slips through time and resurfaces in a modern-day public bath in Japan. There, he meets aspiring young manga artist Mami, along with others of the “flat-faced clan”. Shocked by the many inventive aspects of Japan’s bathing culture, Lucius returns to ancient Rome and garners tremendous attention when he implements these novel ideas back in Rome. As he time-slips back and forth between ancient Rome and modern-day Japan, Lucius’ reputation as the ingenious, new bath architect begins to grow.
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Hideki Takeuchi
Born in 1966, Takeuchi Hideki entered Fuji Television and in 1996 directed his first of many dramas for the… Continue reading
Cast: Alvaro D’Antonio, Tony Nardi, Ron Lea, Nick Mancuso, Tony Nappo, Paula Rivera.
After struggling to make it in Hollywood, Nino finally lands a part when he is cast opposite an international star in a famous director’s movie. Shooting the film in Toronto, his family throws a party in a restaurant in Little Italy to celebrate his success.
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
Over the course of the night buried emotions erupt and old wounds bleed again, the little Italian community is in for a night of drama. A comedy-drama about life, love, community and being Italian in a place where the earth is never warm enough for transplanted roots.
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Jerry Ciccoritti
One of Canada’s most provocative and in-demand directors, Jerry Ciccoritti, a second-generation Italian-Canadian, has directed feature films, television movies and mini-series. His features have consistently been invited to film festivals throughout the world and, in television, he has been awarded numerous prizes. He… Continue reading
Cast: Fiorenzo Mattu, Pietrina Menneas, Tonino Murgia, Paolo Pillonca, Antonio Forma, Luca Todde, Giovanni Frau, Bruno Petretto, Ignazio Pani, Carlo Sannais.
Written and directed by Giovanni Columbu, Su Re is a rereading of the Passion of Christ translated into the Sardinian dialect and transposed within the harsh landscape of Sardinia. The movie starts and finishes in the grave, where Mary cries over her dead son.
Thursday, June 27
7:00 pm
AMC Theatre, Cinema 24
30 Interchange Way,
Vaughan
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
The story itself has already happened but the memories come back and repeat themselves as scenes narrated from the different perspectives of the protagonists, retracing the four canonical Gospels, each with their own sensitivity. An old story that becomes new, reinterpreted in an original and unexpected way.
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Giovanni Columbu
Columbu began his career writing numerous TV shows, such as Visos – sette sogni and Villages and Villages, broadcast by RAI in Cagliari between 1979 and 1999. In 1999 he founded the LUCHES FILM and directed various documentaries. In 2001… Continue reading
Cast: Aniello Arena, Nando Paone, Nunzia Schiano, Claudia Gerini, Paola Minaccioni, Ciro Petrone, Nello Iorio, Ernesto Lama
Luciano is a Neapolitan fishmonger who, in order to supplement his modest income, gets by with little scams carried out together with his wife Maria.
Wednesday, June 26
8:30 pm Cinémathèque québécoise
Salle Claude Jutra
Montreal
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
Due to his outgoing nature, Luciano never misses a chance to perform for his customers in the fish market and numerous relatives. One day his family urges him to audition for the reality show, Big Brother. From that time on, his perception of reality will never be the same.
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Matteo Garrone
Garrone is an award-winning filmmaker of international fame. His first film, Terra di mezzo, received the Special Jury Prize at the Cinemagiovani Festival in Turin. Estate romana, was presented at the Venice Film Festival. L’imbalsamatore garnered considerable success with audiences and critics and won the Aiace award.… Continue reading
Cast: Robert Loggia, John Savage, Steven Bauer, Margot Kidder, Nick Mancuso, Michael Pare, Robert Mangiardi, Frank D’Angelo.
Real Gangsters tells the story of the Lo Giacomo family, one of the most successful crime syndicates in New York City. Run by cousins Vincent Lo Giacomo and Jack Lo Giacomo.
Language: English
They are surrounded by a variety of characters: Frankie and Cacciatore, who follow Jack’s orders, Uncle Gaetano a survivor of early gangster generations, Big Nick Salens, who runs the biker gangs, and Detective Ted Roberts, the tireless FBI undercover agent on Jack’s heels. Most of the family business takes place at the Forget About It Restaurant, run by Stella. Real Gangsters is a burst of galvanic energy. A relentless rush of classic crime and the thrill that comes from living life on the edge, knowing that at any moment you may have to put your life on the line to serve and protect the family.
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Frank D’Angelo
Television personality, vocalist,… Continue reading
Cast: Elio Germano, Valerio Mastandrea, Gianni Morandi, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Mauro Marchese, Francesca Rabbi, Lorenzo Rivola, Alina Gulyalyeva, Giovanni Piccinini
Two brothers, Cosimo and Elia, young and overambitious contractors from Rome, arrive in a remote village in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines to complete the renovation of the villa of the major landowner in the area: the popular singer Fausto Mieli.
Thursday, July 4
7 pm The Royal
608 College St, Toronto
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
Mieli, who retired from the music scene, is both loved and hated by the local community. Mieli’s comeback concert is due to be held in the village at the end of the contractors’ stay. Meanwhile, the clumsy and unwittingly arrogant presence of Cosimo and Elia in the village generates trouble and hostility amongst the local men.
At the same time Adriana, the village beauty, who is attracted to Elia, dreams of running away with him. The conflict that develops after the arrival of these “foreigners” produces dreadful and unexpected consequences in the lives of… Continue reading
Cast: Nicolas Vaporidis, Andrea Bosca, Massimo Ghini, Claudia Potenza, Giulia Michelini, Camilla Ferranti, Riccardo Leonelli, Mia Benedetta, Lorenzo Zurzolo.
Federico and Riccardo are friends from Puglia who are extremely different but connected by a brotherly relationship rooted in their infancy.
Friday, June 28
7:30 pm Reception
9:30 pm Movie
AMC Theatre, Cinema 24
30 Interchange Way,
Vaughan
Saturday, June 29
7 pm AMC Theatre,
Cinema 24
30 Interchange Way,
Vaughan
Sunday, June 30
7 pm Cinémathèque québécoise
Salle Claude Jutra, Montreal
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
Federico is a suburban playboy on the loose who lives in Puglia, while Riccardo is a talented fashion designer who lives in Milan and works at a dead-end job. Once they find out about the possibility of obtaining a grant from the region of Puglia in support of entrepreneurial activities in the fashion field, the two friends decide to attempt taking on this great adventure.
Soon they learn that the grant is given only… Continue reading
Italian Eye in the World
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Letter Two challenges misconceptions about the commedia dell’arte by present-day theatre critics and directors. It explores a history of an ‘actor-less’ theatre culture in Canada at the hands of a ‘director’s theatre’, in which, increasingly, a tradition of over-trained actors and under-trained directors is encouraged.
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Letter Two sfida le concezioni sbagliate dei critici e dei registi di oggi sulla commedia dell’arte esplorando la storia della cultura teatrale canadese senza attori a causa del ‘teatro di regia’ che incoraggia una tradizione di attori ultrapreparati e di registi non all’altezza.
Italian Eye in the World
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Mathieu Kassovitz, Olivier Gourmet, Francis Renaud
Police chief Mattei is about to arrest a notorious gang of thieves when, during a robbery at a Parisian bank, a sharpshooter on the roof of an overlooking building single-handedly decimates an army of cops, thereby letting his accomplices escape. Unfortunately, one of them is seriously wounded and the rest of their plan is compromised. While Mattei organizes a massive manhunt, the descent into hell for for each gang member begins.
Language: French
Subtitles: English
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Michele Placido
One of the best known names in Italian cinema, Placido started his career first as a theatre actor, then moving to television in 1970. He worked with Luca Ronconi and Mario Monicelli. His role as the police inspector Corrado Cattani in the TV series La Piovra marked the beginning of his greatest television popularity. In 1990 he made his directorial debut with the feature film Pummarò, presented… Continue reading
Cast: Toni Servillo, Nello Mascia, Marco Baliani, Giulia Michelini, Fausto Sciarappa, Denis Fasolo, Sara D’Amario, Valeria Golino
The nude corpse of a young girl, Anna, is found on a lakeshore. A brilliant detective (Sanzio) questions a number of potential suspects.
Wednesday, July 3
7:30 pm Reception
9:30 pm Movie*
AMC Theatre, Cinema 24
30 Interchange Way,
Vaughan
Thursday, July 4
7:00 pm AMC Theatre,
AMC Theatre, Cinema 24
30 Interchange Way,
Vaughan
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
Anna’s father (who had videotaped Anna in a bikini), Anna’s combative boyfriend, Anna’s surly stepsister, a womanizing hockey coach and a divorced neighbour. While piecing together the pieces of the puzzle, Sanzio has to contend with a wife riddled by Alzheimer’s and a rebellious teenage daughter who hardly speaks to him.
Based on the novel ‘Don’t look back’ by Karin Fossum and directed by Andrea Molaioli (“The Jewel”) this is a taut, tense thriller set in an idyllic mountainous region of Italy that hides a mundane yet deadly evil.
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Andrea Molaioli
Andrea Molaioli was born… Continue reading