Made in Italy

THE LAST LEOPARD

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore

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Goffredo Lombardo was among the most celebrated producers in the history of Italian cinema. L’ultimo Gattopardo retells his life and professional activity through a series of sequences of prestigious films from the Titanus Library, with stock footage and contemporary interviews with Italian and foreign actors, directors and screenwriters who have worked with Lombardo and which trace the history of one of the most prestigious Italian film companies.

Country: Italy
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 100 minutes
Year: 2010
Production: Titanus
World Sales: Intramovies
SHOWTIMES
Monday July 1, 2013
6:45 pm TIFF Bell LightBox
Cinema 2
350 King St W, Toronto

Language: Italian
Subtitles: English

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Giuseppe Tornatore

Giuseppe Tornatore

Giuseppe Tornatore is an Academy Award winning Italian film director and screenwriter. He was born in Bagheria, near the city of Palermo, Sicily. Tornatore made his debut in the world of cinema with Le minoranze ethiche in Sicilia (Ethnic Minorities in Sicily), a documentary that won the prize for best documentary at the Salerno Film Festival in 1982. His first full-length film, Il Camorrista, garnered great responses from the public and critics; Tornatore was awarded the Silver Ribbon for… Continue reading →

Director: Andrea Segre

Cast: Zhao Tao, Rade Serbedzija, Marco Paolini, Roberto Citran, Giuseppe Battiston

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The film tells the story of the friendship between a young Chinese woman and a fisherman of Slavic descent.

Country: Italy 2011
Genre: Drama
Duration: 96 minutes
Production: Jolefilm, RAI Cinema
North America Distributor: Film Movement
SHOWTIMES
Friday, June 28, 2013
8:30 pm Cinémathèque québécoise
Salle Claude Jutra
Montreal

Monday, July 1
9:30 pm TIFF Bell LightBox
Cinema 2
350 King St W, Toronto

Friday, July 5
7:30 pm Reception
9:30 pm Movie*
AMC Theatre, Cinema 24
30 Interchange Way,
Vaughan

Language: Italian
Subtitles: English

The story takes place on an island in the Venetian lagoon which is going through a period of economic and social turmoil. Shun Li moves to the small town of Chioggia, where she works as a bartender in a tavern. Here she meets Bepi, also called “the Poet.”

Shun Li and the Poet represent two worlds in crisis: one is the world of a woman who abandoned her roots to find fortune abroad, the other world is a man who feels that his roots have been transformed by economic growth.

These two worlds sense… Continue reading →

Made in Italy

Into Paradiso

Director: Paola Randi

Cast: Gianfelice Imparato, Peppe Servillo, Saman Anthony, Eloma Ran Janz, Gianni Ferreri, Diego Sepe

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Alfonso is a Neapolitan scientist, shy and clumsy, who has just lost his job. Gayan is a charming but penniless ex-cricket champion from Sri Lanka who just arrived in Naples and is convinced that he has found Paradise. Alfonso spent his entire life studying cell migration and watching soap operas with his mother. Gayan has traveled, and has known fame, glory and fortune. What do these two men have in common? How is it possible that two people who are so different become permanently tied with one another?

Country: Italy
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 104 minutes
Production: Acaba Produzioni
Worldwide sales: Ellipsis Media International
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Saturday, June 29
7 pm TIFF Bell LightBox
Cinema 2
350 King St W, Toronto

Language: Italian
Subtitles: English

In multi-ethnic Naples, Alfono and Gayan’s destinies cross and they find themselves inevitably sharing an illegally erected shack on the roof of a building in the heart of the Sri Lankan quarter of the city. Amidst this bizarre situation a special friendship grows a bond that will give… Continue reading →

Italian Eye in the World

THE LOST WORLD CUP

Director: Lorenzo Garzella Filippo Macelloni

Cast: Marcelo Alejandro Auchelli, Walter Balzarini, Wolfgang Bandorsky.

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The film re-enacts the events of the 1942 World Cup in Patagonia, while the civilized world is swallowed up by the ferocity of World War II.

Country: Argentina/Italy
Genre: Docu-Fiction
Duration: 95 minutes
Production: Verdeoro
Worldwide sales: RAI Trade
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Monday, July 1
4:30 pm TIFF Bell LightBox
Cinema 2
350 King St W, Toronto

Language: Spanish/Italian
Subtitles: English

This World Cup has never been recognized by official bodies and was shrouded in mystery for decades with no knowledge of the winner.

The story opens with the discovery of a mysterious skeleton and a camera during a paleontological dig in Argentina. The investigations reveal that the human remains belong to Guillermo Sandrini, an Argentine cameraman of Italian descent, hired to film the tournament. The reel in Sandrini’s camera promises to reveal the truth about the result of the final of the forgotten World Cup.
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Garzella Filippo Macelloni

Garzella Filippo Macelloni

Lorenzo Garzella and Filippo Macelloni founded NANOF, an Italian independent production company whose work spans from movies to documentaries and… Continue reading →

Italian Eye in the World

HOPEFUL NOTES

Director: Valerio Zanoli

Cast: Walter Nudo, Sharon Hayes, Laural Merlington, Ian Poland, Colin Ross, Kaitlyn Squires, Kimberly Harsch, Lori Silvey

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Alex is an Italian engineer who has been working in Russia for several years. At the end of his contract, he announces to his friends and colleagues that he will go back to Italy;

Country: USA/Canada 2010
Genre: Drama
Duration: 94 minutes
Production: High Concept
Worldwide sales: Pure Flix Entertainment
SHOWTIMES
Friday June 28
9:30 pm Movie
TIFF Bell LightBox
Cinema 1
350 King St W, Toronto

Language: English

however, after a chance meeting with Dima, a child who is a cancer patient in a local hospital, he reconsiders his future. After being introduced by the boy to the other young patients of his ward, Alex decides to volunteer at the hospital by playing the piano to the children.

By doing so he is suddenly engulfed into a reality that is too often forgotten. Many children are in a daily fight for their lives against frightening illnesses. Hopeful Notes is an inspiring tale about bringing hope to those who have none.
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Valerio Zanoli

Valerio Zanoli… Continue reading →

Director: Maximilian Mazzotta

Cast: Ninetto Davoli, Lunetta Savino, Max Mazzotta, Rita Montes, Giampaolo Morelli, Ronny Morena, Deniz Ozdogan

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Enrico Fiabeschi is alone in Bologna. Anna, his girlfriend, left him. He has no job. He didn’t even graduate from university, despite all the years spent studying. His friends have gone their separate ways and Enrico feels like the city itself has abandoned him, as a foreign, almost hostile, entity, forcing him to go back to Calabria.

Country: Italy 2012
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 90 minutes
Production: 11 Marzo Film, RAI Cinema
Distributor: Iris Film
SHOWTIMES

Saturday, June 29
7:30 pm Reception
9:30 pm Movie*
AMC Theatre, Cinema 24
30 Interchange Way,
Vaughan

Sunday, June 30
7 pm AMC Theatre,
Cinema 24
30 Interchange Way,
Vaughan

Language: Italian
Subtitles: English

Once there, his memories and the inhabitants of the small town of Cuculicchio seem to be frozen in the past, pushing him to question his life. Fiabeschi will try to find the answers in his own way, focusing on the direction he wants to go in his life and maybe finally recognizing his true love.
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Maximilian Mazzotta

Maximilian Mazzotta

Maximilian Mazzotta is an Italian actor… Continue reading →

Italian Eye in the World

SIBERIAN EDUCATION

Director: Gabriele Salvatores

Cast: Maurizio Casagrande, Maurizio Mattioli, Valeria Marini, Jerry Calà, Enzo Salvi, Benito Urgu, Adolfo Margiotta, Cosetta Turco

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The film tells the story of a Siberian community, a kind of mafia with strong mystical connections. Here we find the criminals who call themselves “honest criminals.” Among the rules: contempt for money and power in general, the police and the communists; the love of weapons, tattoos, people who have physical or mental disabilities and religion. Besides weapons, these honest criminals spend all their money buying precious icons.

Country: Italy
Genre: Drama
Duration: 100 minutes
Production: Cattleya
Canadian distributor: Mongrel Media

SHOWTIMES
Tuesday, July 2
9 pm TIFF Bell LightBox
Cinema 2
350 King St W, Toronto

Language: English
Subtitles: None

All this is told through the stories of two boys, Kolima and Gagarin, who will find themselves behaving opposite to their traditions with the advent of globalization.
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Gabriele Salvatores

Gabriele Salvatores

Salvatores debuted as a theatre director in 1972. In 1989 he directed his first feature film, Marrakech Express, which was followed in 1990 by Turné, a film screened at the Cannes Film Festival. In… Continue reading →

Director: Daniele Ciprì

Cast: Toni Servillo, Giselda Volodi, Alfredo Castro, Aurora Quattrocchi, Benedetto Raneli, Fabrizio Falco, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Giacomo Civiletti, Piero Misuraca, Lucia Guzzardi, Alessia Zammitti

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The Ciraulos live very poorly in Palermo, in the Zen neighbourhood. In spite of this, they own a bright new Mercedes, the best car in town,

Country: Italy 2012
Genre: Drama
Duration: 90 minutes
Production: Passione Produzioni, Babe Films, RAI Cinema
World Sales: RAI Trade
SHOWTIMES
Saturday, June 29, 2013
9:00 pm Cinémathèque québécoise
Salle Claude Jutra
Montreal

Sunday, June 30
7:30 pm Reception
9:30 pm Movie*
AMC Theatre, Cinema 24
30 Interchange Way,
Vaughan

Monday, July 1
7:00 pm
AMC Theatre, Cinema 24
30 Interchange Way,
Vaughan

Language: Italian
Subtitles: English

parked right in front of their house, bought with the money they obtained as a refund after the accidental death of their daughter Serenella, victim of a shooting between mafiosi.

Their Mercedes, blessed with holy water, rather than being a symbol of richness, will soon become a sign of misery, a dangerous instrument of ruin and defeat.

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Daniele Ciprì

Daniele Ciprì

Filmmaker, screenwriter and director of photography, Daniele Ciprì contributed to the success of… Continue reading →

Made in Italy

I WON’T PAY

Director: Alessandro Capone

Cast: Maurizio Casagrande, Maurizio Mattioli, Valeria Marini, Jerry Calà, Enzo Salvi, Benito Urgu, Adolfo Margiotta, Cosetta Turco

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Marshall Remo Signorelli and sergeant Riccardo Riva of the Italian Finance Police must prepare for an “anti-evasion blitz” in Poltu Quatu, a tourist center on the northeast coast of Sardinia. There are in fact several “rotten apples” that hang around the accountant Massimiliano Grilli, a “master of tax evasion”. Remo casually encounters his old friend Fulvio, who manages a fashion store. Fulvio welcomes Remo as an old, dear friend: he does not know that he has become an officer of the financial police and ends up revealing secrets from great tax evaders. In reality Remo is angry with his old friend because he is convinced that many years ago Fulvio slept with Remo’s future wife.

Country: Italy
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 108 minutes
Production: Red Carpet, Motom Electronics
Canadian distributor: AI Entertainment
SHOWTIMES
Friday, July 5, 2013
7pm TIFF Bell LightBox
Cinema 2
350 King St W, Toronto

Language: Italian
Subtitles: English

The preparation for the mega blitz continues relentlessly and when Remo discovers that in reality things did not… Continue reading →

Made in Italy

DIAZ – DON’T CLEAN UP THIS BLOOD

Director: Daniele Vicari

Cast: Elio Germano, Claudio Santamaria, Renato Scarpa, Rolando Ravello, Alessandro Roja, Jennifer Ulrich, Monica Barladeanu, Aylin Prandi, Paolo Calabresi

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A film inspired by the events that took place in Genoa during the G8 in 2001, when 300 police officers and 70 special agents raided the Diaz school looking for demonstrators.

Inside the school were 90 activists, mostly students from around Europe along with a handful of foreign reporters. As the police burst in, the young demonstrators raised their hands in surrender. Undeterred and unmoved, the police unleashed a calculated frenzy of violence.

Country: Italy
Genre: Drama
Duration: 127′
Production: Fandango
Canadian distributor: Mongrel Media
SHOWTIMES
Thursday, June 27, 2013
8:30 pm Cinémathèque québécoise
Salle Claude Jutra
Montreal

Wednesday, July 3, 2013
9:30 pm TIFF Bell LightBox
Cinema 2
350 King St W, Toronto

Language: Italian
Subtitles: English

“The most serious suspension of democratic rights in a Western country since the Second World War” – Amnesty International.

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Daniele Vicari

Daniele Vicari

Vicari has worked as a film critic with several magazines while taking his first steps into the world of cinema as… Continue reading →

Made in Italy

COME UNDONE

Director: Silvio Soldini

Cast: Alba Rohrwacher, Pierfrancesco Favino, Giuseppe Battiston, Monica Nappo, Fabio Troiano, Teresa Saponangelo, Gigio Alberti, Gisella Burinato

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On paper, Anna should be a happy woman: she has a good job, an affectionate family, and a boyfriend, Alessio, who loves her. However, when Anna meets Domenico, a complacent and self-gratifying world starts to crumble, and Anna’s life becomes filled with unprecedented love and passion.

Thus begins an odyssey made up of secret encounters, lies, sexual intercourse voraciously consummated in motels, and many, many doubts. Until Anna decides to put an end to the lies and return to her partner. Domenico, who is married with children, realizes that his family needs him. Yet giving up a relationship based on sultry passion and unprecedented excitement won’t be so easy.

Country: Italy/Switzerland
Genre: Drama
Duration: 126 minutes
Production: Lumière & Co.
Distributor:
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Saturday July 6
7 pm TIFF Bell LightBox
Cinema 1
Toronto

Language: Italian
Subtitles: English

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Silvio Soldini

Silvio Soldini

Through his production company, Monogatari, Soldini made his first feature film L’aria serena dell’ovest, a movie that represents the revival of New Italian Cinema.
He is a cultured… Continue reading →

Director: Michele Rho

Cast: Vinicio Marchioni, Michele Alhaique, Giulia Michelini, Duccio Camerini, Cesare Apolito, Antonella Attili, Fausto Sciarappa, Marco Iermanò

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At the end of the 1800s, Alessandro and Pietro live in a small town in the Appennini mountains. The brothers are very different, yet very close, especially after their mother’s death. Her last gifts to them were two marvelous, untamed horses.
Once Alessandro becomes an adult, he voices the desire to travel beyond the mountains and go far away, while Pietro wants to become a breeder and live with Veronica, the girl he loves.

Country: Italy
Genre: Drama
Duration: 120 minutes
Year: 2011
Production: Lucky Red
World Sales: Global Screen
SHOWTIMES

Tuesday, July 2
7:30 pm Reception
9:30 pm Movie*
AMC Theatre, Cinema 24
30 Interchange Way,
Vaughan

Language: Italian
Subtitles: English

One day, due to a political error, something amazing happens: Peppino is mistakenly elected President of the Italian Republic. He is forced to leave his quiet life to play a role for which he is clearly inadequate, as are his manners; however, his common sense and his spontaneity prove incredibly effective.

Peppino’s joyful madness, his humanity and his disarming honesty in a time… Continue reading →

Director: Gennaro Nunziante

Cast: Claudio Bisio, Kasia Smutniak, Giuseppe Fiorello, Massimo Popolizio, Remo Girone, Omero Antonutti

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In a small mountain village lives a man with the famous name of Giuseppe Garibaldi, known by everybody as Peppino. He is an optimist who loves fishing, the company of friends and the library where he has a temporary job.

Country: Italy
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 100 minutes
Production: Indigo Film
Distributor: 01 Distributon

SHOWTIMES
Wednesday, June 26
6:30 pm TIFF Bell LightBox
Cinema 1
350 King St W, Toronto

Sunday, June 30, 2013
5:00 pm Cinémathèque québécoise
Salle Claude Jutra
Montreal

Thursday, July 4
7:30 pm Reception
9:30 pm Movie*
AMC Theatre, Cinema 24
30 Interchange Way,
Vaughan

Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
*To redeem vouchers for this film, the cost is $18 for the reception.
You can´t redeem your voucher for the film alone.

One day, due to a political error, something amazing happens: Peppino is mistakenly elected President of the Italian Republic. He is forced to leave his quiet life to play a role for which he is clearly inadequate, as are his manners; however, his common sense and his spontaneity prove incredibly effective.

Peppino’s joyful madness, his… Continue reading →

WE HAVE A POPE

Director: Nanni Moretti

Cast: Michel Piccoli, Nanni Moretti, Jerzy Stuhr, Margherita Buy

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The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is due to appear on St. Peter’s balcony to greet the faithful, who have been patiently awaiting the conclave’s decision.

Country: Italy
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Duration: 104 min.
Production: Sacher Film
Worldwide sales: 01 Distribution
SHOWTIMES
Sunday July 1 2012
4:00 pm Reception
5:00 pm Screening AMC
30 Interchange Way
Vaughan

Language: Italian
Subtitles: English

His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, seek help from a renowned psychoanalyst (and atheist).

However, the Pope’s fear of the responsibility suddenly thrust upon him is one that he must face on his own.

2012 DAVID DI DONATELLO WINNER: Best Leading Actor (Michel Piccoli), Best Art Director, Best Costume Designer

GLOBO D’ORO 2011: Best Film

TIFF – TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2011: Special Presentations
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Basilicata Coast To Coast

Director: Rocco Papaleo

Cast: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Rocco Papaleo, Alessandro Gassman, Max Gazzè, Paolo Briguglia.

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The untouched region of Basilicata stars in this engaging road movie with a heart and soul from actor-turned-writer/director Rocco Papaleo, known to Italian audiences for his Basilicata accent and comic genius.

Country: Italy
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 105 min.
Production: Paco Cinematografica
Worldwide sales: Eagle Pictures
SHOWTIMES
Friday June 29, 2012
7:00 pm Reception AMC
8:00 pm Screening AMC
30 Interchange Way – Vaughan

Language: Italian
Subtitles: English

When Nicola (Papaleo) enters his unassuming band in a music festival on the other side of Basilicata, he comes up with the idea of walking there in 10 days – partly as a publicity stunt and partly as a bonding journey!

This trip would normally take under two hours by car but his motley crew are willing: sweet-natured Salvatore (Paolo Briguglia), his hipster ex-TV celeb cousin, Rocco (Alessandro Gassman), and amiable mute Franco (singer Max Gazze’ in his screen debut).

Tagging along on this adventure is apprehensive journalist Tropea, expertly played by Giovanna Mezzogiorno (Vincere) who displays her flair for comedy in this charming role.

Against the sometimes… Continue reading →

THE RIGHT DISTANCE

Director: Carlo Mazzacurati

Cast: Giovanni Capovilla, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Giuseppe Battiston, Valentina Lodovini, Ahmed Hafiene, Ivano Marescotti.

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In a remote stretch of land at the mouth of Italy’s river Po lies a sleepy and unassuming town: A few isolated houses haphazardly scattered in a flat, desolate landscape. This evanescent tableau is the background for the encounter between Hassan and Mara.

Country: Italy
Genre: Drama
Duration: 106 min
Production: Fandango, RAI cinema
Worldwide sales: Fandango Portobello
SHOWTIMES
Wednesday June 27, 2012
7:00 pm Reception
8:00 pm Screening
AMC 
30 Interchange Way – Vaughan

Language: Italian
Subtitles: English

Hassan is a Tunisian mechanic who has earned the esteem and respect of the locals through years of hard work. Mara is a young substitute teacher who is waiting to leave for Brazil for work. Giovanni, an eighteen-year-old aspiring journalist, spends an inordinate amount of time fixing a motorcycle in Hassan’s body shop. In time, Giovanni becomes more than a mere eyewitness to the affair.

This story begins in a disquieting ambience, with Hassan spying on Mara at night while she sleeps in the isolated house where she is staying. After initially rejecting him,… Continue reading →

THE VANISHING OF PATÒ

Director: Rocco Mortelliti

Cast: Nino Frassica, Maurizio Casagrande, Neri Marcorè, Flavio Bucci, Danilo Formaggia, Roberto Herlitzka, Gilberto Idonea, Simona Marchini, Alessandra Mortelliti, Francis Pardeilhan

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Rocco Mortelliti’s adaptation of Andrea Camilleri’s novel set in Sicily starts as a simple detective story, but eventually grows into an incisive social commentary on Italy’s class system and the true nature of power.

Country: Italy
Genre: Drama-Thriller
Duration: 100 min
Production: EMME cinematografica, RAI Trade
Worldwide sales: RAI Trade
SHOWTIMES

Friday June 29, 2012
9:00 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox
350 King Street West – Toronto
Cinema 2

Saturday June 30, 2012
5:00 pm Reception AMC
6:00 pm Screening AMC
30 Interchange Way – Vaughan

Language: Italian
Subtitles: English

It’s 1890 and as the town enjoys its traditional re-enactment of the Passion of Christ, local banker Antonio Patò (Marcoré) disappears after his mock hanging playing the role of Judas. A Sicilian Carabiniere, Marshal Giummaro (Nino Frassica) and a Neapolitan police officer, Inspector Ernesto Bellavia (Casagrande) are forced to work together to solve the case quickly.

Patò is considered above reproach by the entire community and is well connected. Is Patò dead or hiding?

The case… Continue reading →

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY

Director: Gennaro Nunziante

Cast: Checco Zalone, Nabiha Akkari, Rocco Papaleo, Tullio Solenghi, Anna Rita del Piano, Ivano Marescotti, Michele Alhaique, Mehdi Mahdloo, Luigi Luciano, Anna Bellato.

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Checco works as a bouncer at a nightclub in Brianza and dreams of becoming a policeman like his uncle Giuseppe.

Country: Italy
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 97 min.
Production: Medusa film
Worldwide sales: Medusa distribuzione
SHOWTIMES
Wed June 27, 2012
8:30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox
350 King Street West – Toronto
Cinema 1

SHOWTIMES
Thursday June 28, 2012
7:00 pm Reception AMC
8:00 pm Screening AMC
30 Interchange Way – Vaughan

Language: Italian
Subtitles: English

Through a series of zany circumstances, Checco is rejected by Colonel Gismondo Mazzini three times in one year. However, thanks to a recommendation from the Archbishop of Milan, he finds work as a security officer at the Milan Duomo.

Here, the hapless Checco meets Farah, an Arab girl who pretends to be a student of architecture in order to gain access to the Madonna.

Farah’s plan is to pray to an icon of the Virgin Mary in order to place an explosive device with the help of her brother… Continue reading →

A FLAT FOR THREE

Director: Carlo Verdone

Cast: Pier Francesco Favino, Carlo Verdone, Marco Giallini, Micaela Ramazzotti, Diane Fleri, Nicoletta Romanoff, Nadir Caselli, Valentina D’Agostino.

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Divorce has plunged Domenico, Ulisse and Fulvio into serious economic problems.

Country: Italy
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 119 min.
Production: Filmauro
Worldwide sales: Intramovies
SHOWTIMES
Sunday July 01, 2012
7:00 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox
350 King Street West – Toronto
Cinema 1

Language: Italian
Subtitles: English

The three men meet for the first time when – looking for a place to stay – they converge on a flat that none of them can afford on a single budget.

The instant proposal of sharing space and expenses brings them together under the same roof.

However, this precarious situation attracts every possible problem the men have with ex wives, young or grown-up children and capricious new partners.

Finally they come up with an idea that should help them out of their plight, but it’s just another disaster waiting to happen.
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To Rome with Love

Director: Woody Allen

Cast: Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page.

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Well-known architect John (Alec Baldwin) is vacationing in Rome, where he once lived. There he encounters Jack (Jesse Eisenberg), a young man not unlike himself. As he watches Jack fall head-over-heels for Monica (Ellen Page), his girlfriend Sally’s (Greta Gerwig) dazzling and flirtatious friend, John relives one of the most romantically painful episodes of his life.

Country: United States
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 102 min.
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
Worldwide sales: Sony
SHOWTIMES
Saturday June 30, 2012
6:00 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox
350 King Street West – Toronto
Cinema 1

Language: English

At the same moment, retired opera director Jerry (Woody Allen) flies to Rome with his wife Phyllis (Judy Davis), to meet their daughter Hayley’s (Alison Pill) Italian fiancée, Michelangelo (Flavio Parenti). Jerry is amazed to hear Michelangelo’s undertaker father, Giancarlo (renowned tenor Fabio Armiliato) singing arias worthy of La Scala while lathering up in the shower. Convinced that such a prodigious talent cannot be kept hidden, Jerry clutches at the opportunity to promote Giancarlo and rejuvenate his… Continue reading →

THE JEWEL

Director: Andrea Molaioli

Cast: Toni Servillo, Remo Girone, Sarah Felberbaum, Lino Guanciale, Fausto Maria Sciarappa, Jay O. Sanders, Lisa Galantini, Vanessa Compagnucci, Maurizio Marchetti, Adriana De Guilmi, Gianna Paola Scaffidi, Alessandro Adriano, Igor Chernevich, Renato Carpentieri

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Another addition to a recent string of Italian films that take a close, unvarnished look at Italy’s dark side (Il Divo, Gomorrah), The Jewel is the second film by Andrea Molaioli, a frequent second-unit director for Nanni Moretti.

Country: Italy
Genre: Drama
Duration: 110 min.
Production: Indigo Film / Babe films
Worldwide sales: BIM Distribuzione
SHOWTIMES
Friday June 29, 2012
6:00 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox
350 King Street West – Toronto
Cinema 2

Language: Italian
Subtitles: English

Molaioli’s acclaimed debut The Girl By the Lake was a meticulous existential murder mystery; The Jewel applies the same sort of forensics and deep character study to its telling of a tale closely based on the 2003 Parmalat scandal, an “Italian Enron” in which a multi-billion-dollar food conglomerate with close ties to the Christian Democrat party went bust and saw its CEO jailed.

Remo Girone stars as the lightly fictionalized CEO, Amanzio Rastelli, who inherits a cheese and… Continue reading →

IMMATURE, THE TRIP

Director: Paolo Genovese

Cast: Ambra Angiolini, Luca Bizzarri, Barbora Bobulova, Raoul Bova, Anita Caprioli, Paolo Kessisoglu, Ricky Memphis, Luisa Ranieri, Maurizio Mattioli, Giovanna Ralli, Lucia Ocone, Alessandro Tiberi, Francesca Valtorta, Lavinia Longhi, Aurora Cossio, Rocio Muñoz

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Having finally passed their high school exam (which they had to re-take twenty years later), seven former classmates organize a much-yearned trip that they were unable to take in their teens.

Country: Italy
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 108 min.
Production: Medusa Film
Worldwide sales: Medusa distribuzione
SHOWTIMES
Thursday June 28, 2012
6:00 pm Cinema Royal College
608 College st – Toronto

Language: Italian
Subtitles: English

Much to their chagrin, they will be accompanied by wives, girlfriends, parents and children.

Together, they visit a Greek island, experiencing new adventures, learning life lessons, revealing new weaknesses, proving that real ‘maturity’ can never be fully achieved.
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KRYPTONITE!

Director: Ivan Cotroneo

Cast: Valeria Golino, Cristiana Capotondi, Luca Zingaretti, Libero de Rienzo, Luigi Catani, Vincenzo Nemolato, Monica Nappo, Massimiliano Gallo, Lucia Ragni, Gennaro Cuomo, Sergio Solli, Antonia Truppo, Carmine Borrino, Rosaria De Cicco, Nunzia Schiano, Fabrizio Gifuni

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Plot

Naples, 1973. Peppino Sansone, a sensitive but clumsy nine-year-old boy, lives in a dysfunctional and bizarre family. His mother Rosaria has fallen prey to depression and isolates herself in anguished silence, after finding out that her husband cheats on her using his blue FIAT 850 as an alcove for his trysts.

Country: Italy
Genre: Drama-Comedy
Duration: 98′
Production: Indigo Film, RAI Cinema
Worldwide sales: RAI Trade
SHOWTIMES
Tuesday June 26, 2012
7:00 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox
350 King Street West Toronto
Cinema 1

Language: Italian
Subtitles: English

Peppino’s father tries to distract him from the family troubles by giving him three chicks to raise as pets. The chicks, however, eventually die.

Peppino’s aunt and uncle, Titina and Salvatore, provide a respite of sorts by taking him to nightclub parties and feminist rallies. However, Peppino’s greatest friend is his cousin Gennaro, an odd character who thinks he is Superman.

When Gennaro suddenly dies after being… Continue reading →