We’re so proud and excited to watch so many of the films screened at #ICFF2017 win major prizes in this busy award season in Italy. Films with the most nominations and awards include Edoardo De Angelis’s Indivisibili (Indivisible) and Paolo Virzì’s La Pazza Gioia (Like Crazy), but almost all of the films in our 2017 program were recognized in one way or another.

The Davids, Best Picture, La Pazza Gioia

The David di Donatello Awards are the Italian equivalent of Hollywood’s Oscars, and this year’s big winners were Indivisibili, Veloce Come Il Vento (Italian Race), and La Pazza Gioia.

Matteo Roveres’s Veloce Come Il Vento won 6 Awards: Best Actor (Stefano Accorsi), Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Makeup, Best Sound, and Best Digital Effects.

Edoardo De Angelis’s Indivisibili went home with 6 as well; Best Supporting Actress (Antonia Truppo, SO deserved), Best Screenplay, Best Producer, Best Musical Score, Best Original Song, and Best Costume Design.

Antonia Truppo, Indivisibili

Paolo Virzì’s La Pazza Gioia (Like Crazy) earned five and it got the big ones: Best Director, Best Picture, Best Actress (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), Best Production Design, and Best Hair.

We’re very happy for Best Supporting Actor Valerio Mastandrea (Fiore) and Pierfrancesco Diliberto (Pif) for his Young David Award (In Guerra Per Amore), the winner of our Audience Choice Award.

In Guerra Per Amore

The Nastri d’Argento Awards (Silver Ribbons) are the oldest film awards in Europe and given by the Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani. The 2017 Comedy of the Year was L’Ora Legale (The Legal Hour). Indivisibili was awarded Best Story and Best Musical Score.

Ficarra e Picone in L’Ora Legale

The Globi d’Oro Awards are Italy’s version of the Golden Globes. This year, Isabella Ragonese was named Best Actress for her role in Fabio Mollo’s Il padre d’Italia (There Is A Light).

Isabella Ragonese (Il Padre d’Italia)

Ciak Magazine’s Film Awards are reader generated, and so a little extra special. This year, we the people voted La Pazza Gioia Best Film, and Micaela Ramazzotti best actress for her role in it.

Claudio Giovanessi’s Fiore won the Ciak Youth Award, and actress Daphne Scoccia, who played Daphne in the film won the Revelation of the Year award.

Indivisibili was recognized for Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay, and actresses Angela and Marianna Fontana won the Colpo di Fulmine Award, for best newcomers.

A very special congratulation to Indivisibili’s Enzo Avitabile for having won the award for Best Music from all four film award presenters.

Angela and Marianna Fontana with Enzo Avitabile, Indivisibili

If you missed #ICFF17 you have the opportunity to watch 2 popular films at our Cinema Under The Stars movie night.

 JULY 21, 2017
“IN GUERRA PER AMORE”
“AT WAR FOR LOVE”
8:30 pm Refreshment
9:30 pm Screening
5300 Dundas St. W.

AUGUST 18, 2017
“LA PAZZA GIOIA”
“LIKE CRAZY”
8:30 pm Refreshment
9:30 pm Screening
5300 Dundas St. W.

The screenings Free are free, with the option to purchase refreshments for $12. For L’Altra Italia members the refreshment is free of charge and includes: Slice of Pizza, popcorn, bottle of water, beer and Ferrero Rocher.

For more information please Click here: 

Toronto, June 21, 2017

The ICFF 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award presented to Chris-tian De Sica, IC Savings Award for Outstanding Career presented to Alan Barillaro in closing the sixth edition of the ICFF in Canada.

The Italian Contemporary Film Festival People’s Choice Award won by At War for Love, The Neighborhood’s Giancarlo Giannini, Franco Nero, Danny Aiello bringing home the Trilogy Award, Paola Cortellesi e Leo Gullotta rounding out the trophy winners for 2017.

Toronto – The King of Italian comedy Christian De Sica, was awarded the ICFF 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award, which in the past Festival editions went to highly ac-claimed cinema stars such as Claudia Cardinale and Al Pacino at The Ritz-Carlton during the closing gala attended by 400 hundred guests.

When given his prestigious award by the organization, De Sica said, “I was enthralled by the warmth and affection that I felt during the festival from all the Italians I encountered in Canada and their energy.”

The actor proceeded to underline the fact that if this affection and enthusiasm was the same in Italy, the additional warmth and passion would lead to better things for the coun-try.

The ICFF 2017 Trilogy Award went to Giancarlo Giannini, Franco Nero and Dan-ny Aiello. The trio enthusiastically accepted this award, with Giannini giving personal in-sight about his career, Aiello giving a brilliant singing performance and Nero entertaining in true fashion with a humorous joke.

The three iconic actors were praised from the patrons of the gala, all starring in the film The Neighborhood that was presented at the Festival as a World Premiere and gained such popularity; another screening was added before the closing evening.

Alan Barillaro, in addition to winning an Oscar this year for Best Animated Short Film for his short Piper, received the IC Savings Award for Outstanding Career. Moved by win-ning this new prestigious award, Barillaro – who is also a director, animator and writer of many other successful titles designed by Pixar Studios – dedicated this award to his three children, “the message that Piper wants to give, especially to those that are young, is to never lose the faith and hope when confronted with the first real adversities of life,” said Barillaro.

The film by Pierfrancesco Diliberto, In guerra per amore/At War For Love won the Peo-ple’s Choice Award, by all the patrons that voted at the end of each film screening throughout the 9-days of the festival in the 6 participating cities.

Paola Cortellesi was awarded with the Special Achievement Award for Best Actress in her roles in the films that she presented in Canada, Qualcosa di nuovo/Something New by Cristina Comencini and Mamma o Papà?/Mum or Dad? directed by her husband Ric-cardo Milani.

“I never expected to feel such a large and warm feeling from the audiences, not only from Italian-Canadians but also from those that weren’t Italian – I think that this is beautiful and something I wouldn’t have thought,” said Cortellesi.

This 2017 edition was a festival record Festival: 180 screenings in six Canadian cities – Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Québec City, Vaughan and Hamilton – with more than 30, 000 spectators. A kermis dedicated to the best in Italian contemporary film but also includ-ing two retrospective as aspects: one dedicated to Vittorio De Sica (Marriage Italian Style and Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow) and the other dedicated to Dario Argento (Suspiria and The Bird with The Crystal Plumage).

“A remarkable festival that grows in prestige every year – balancing and weighing this sixth edition,” ICFF Artistic Director Cristiano de Florentiis continued to say, “that is a manifestation which plays a pivotal role in the promotion and key elemental aspects of Italian cinema and moreover, for our culture here in North America.”

As part of our From Bello to Beautiful special program, Tony Nardi won the Special Achievement Award for Best Actor in the film La Sarrasine/The Saracen Woman, di-rected by Paul Tana in Montreal, focused on cultural issues within society.

Acclaimed critic Jim Slotek presented the Film Critics Award in memory of Angela Baldassarre to Fiore/Flower, by Claudio Giovannesi.

Leo Gullotta won the Excellence Award for L’Ora Legale/It’s the Law, and was pleased to see the audience engaged and excited to host him here in Toronto, “I’ve noted and I’m delighted that Canadians are engaged in Italian films and it’s a pleasure to play a part in this,” said Gullotta.

The ICFF 2017 Best Short Award went to Office Kingdom, produced by Salvatore Cen-toducati, Eleonora Bertolucci, Ruben Pirito, and Giulio De Toma – a team of four young promising Italian artists, and graduates of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinemato-grafia di Torino.

Ruth Borgobello, director of The Space Between won the Award of Excellence, and was extremely excited that her film was so well received in Toronto, especially by the Friuli region, and in partnership with the Famee Furlane, the screening was a complete sell out.

“It’s amazing that there’s so much support in this city, from the Friulis as well as Toronto and Vaughan – it’s all so exciting and I look forward to the possibility of coming back with my next film,” said Borgobello.

The ICFF Junior Award was won by Come diventare grandi nonostanti i genitori/How to Grow up Despite your Parents by Luca Lucini. This aspect of the ICFF is dedicated to the youth audiences in Toronto, and occurs during the month of May.

The sixth edition of the Italian Contemporary Film Festival took place from June 8th until June 16th, during Italian Heritage Month, a month dedicated to the Italian cul-ture, and this year celebrating Canada and Ontario’s 150th anniversary.
For more information on the Festival please visit the website www.icff.ca.

About ICFF

The ICFF promotes discovery, appreciation, and pride in the diverse and ever-evolving Italian heritage in Canada. Inaugurated as a grassroots non-profit film festival in 2012, the ICFF has grown to be the largest Italian film festival outside of Italy.

Since its first edition, the ICFF has screened a collection of hundreds of feature films, documentaries and shorts from more than 30 countries. Every year it attracts an audience of more than 30 thousand attendees in Toronto, Vaughan, Hamilton, Montréal, Québec City and Vancouver, to screenings, workshops, industry events and galas.

The ICFF is proudly Canadian and showcases international films defying conventional perspectives on complex and challenging issues facing both the Italian and global communities.

About the 2017 Festival Sponsors

As Presenting Sponsor of the ICFF, IC Savings is committed to supporting the Festival and the art of filmmaking, bringing business and energy to Canada and offering festival patrons the opportunity to enjoy the best in storytelling through film.

ICFF is generously supported by The Ritz-Carlton Toronto, Empire Communities, Cityzen, Two Sisters Vineyard, and the official airline sponsor Delta Air Lines. It is also supported by leading partners, TIFF and Cineplex, and major partners Cinémathèque Quebecoise, Casa d’Italia-UNITAS, Cinéma Cartier, the City of Vaughan, the Italian Embassy, the Consulates General of Italy in Toronto and Montreal, the Italian Cultural Institutes in Toronto and Montreal, the Italian Trade Commission, the Italian Cultural Centre in Vancouver, Rio Theatre and L’Altra Italia.

Media Partners: CTV, RAI Italia, CHIN Radio
Media Supporters: Panorama, ItalNews, and MyEtvMedia, Lo Specchio, Corriere Canadese
ICFF partners are: Ryerson University, Centro Scuola e Cultura, TCDSB, YCDSB, TFCA, ICCO, and CIBPA.

Ecco la lista dei vincitori dell’ICFF 2017

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD – Premio alla Carriera
Christian de Sica

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD – Premio del Pubblico
In Guerra per Amore di Pierfrancesco Diliberto (PIF)

TRILOGY AWARD
Danny Aiello, Giancarlo Giannini, Franco Nero
per The Neighborhood di Frank D’Angelo

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Best actress – migliore attrice
Paola Cortellesi per Qualcosa di Nuovo e Mamma o Papà

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Best actor – miglior attore
Tony Nardi per La Sarrasine

FILM CRITICS AWARD – Premio della Critica
In memory of Angela Baldassarre
Fiore di Claudio Giovannesi

IC SAVINGS AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CAREER
Alan Barillaro per Piper

ICFF JUNIOR AWARD
Come diventare grandi nonostante i genitori di Luca Lucini

BEST SHORT FILM AWARD – Premio al miglior Corto
Office Kingdom di Salvatore Centoducati, Eleonora Bertolucci, Ruben Pirito, Giulio De Toma

EXCELLENCE AWARD – Premio Eccellenza
Leo Gullotta per L’Ora Legale

EXCELLENCE AWARD – Premio Eccellenza
Ruth Borgobello per The Space Between

Media Contacts:

Giorgio Mitolo – ICFF Media Relations – gmitolo@icff.ca

Mia Foley – ICFF Communications – mfoley@icff.ca

On Popular Demand, We Have Added An Additional Screening Of :- The Neighborhood

WORLD PREMIERE

Directed by: Frank D’Angelo

Produced by: In your Ear Productions

Canada | 2017 | Action – Drama | English | World Premiere

Cast: Frank D’Angelo, Giancarlo Giannini, Danny Aiello, Franco Nero, Armand Assante

In Attendance: Frank D’Angelo (Director & Actor), Giancarlo Giannini (Actor), Danny Aiello (Actor)

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We are SO excited to have Paola Cortellesi join us for this year’s Italian Contemporary Film Festival (ICFF)! Paola’s films Mamma o Papà? and Qualcosa di Nuovo – both appearing at ICFF – have her credited as both an actor and writer. Paola will be joining us for the screening of Qualcosa di Nuovo (our Opening Film) and for our Opening Night Party on June 8th, as well as the screening of Qualcosa di Nuovo and Mamma o Papà? in Vaughan on June 9th.She is gorgeous, talented, and beloved by fans, but it’s hard to imagine a more gracious, unassuming, unpretentious superstar than Italian actress Paola Cortellesi. She’s #13 on Ciak Magazine’s 2016 Power List, the star of dozens of crowd-pleasing and award-winning films and described as “one of the best Italian voices”!

Paola Cortellesi

Paola began as a singer at age 13 and went on to become a popular comic actress on television, where she showcased her particular talent for impersonations.

Paola as Italian politician Daniela Santanchè.

Since 2000 she’s starred in some of Italy’s funniest and most successful movies, early on in the title role of Aldo Giovanni and Giacomo’s Tu La Conosci Claudia? (Do You Know Claudia?) As Claudia, she’s adorably hilarious playing the girl that literally everyone in the movie loves and wants.

Tu La Conosci Claudia (Do You Know Claudia?)

Lately Paola’s career has been on fire, starring in two successful films that we’ll be screening at the ICFF, her husband Riccardo Milani’s Mamma o Papà?, and Cristina Comencini’s Qualcosa Di Nuovo.
In Mamma o Papà, she stars with Antonio Albanesi as a divorcing couple in the middle of a custody battle; the twist? In this custody battle, neither parent wants custody.

Mumma O Papa

In Qualcosa Di Nuovo, Paola stars with Micaela Ramazzotti and plays Lucia, a middle-aged woman who has shut herself off to the possibility of love after a big heartbreak, and has a fling with a handsome 19-year-old guy.

This year ICFF movie goers will have the unbelievable opportunity to get up close and personal with this Italian Cinema super star at the festival’s June 8 Opening Party as well as the film screenings.

Meet Paola Cortellesi

*The Istituto Italiano di Cultura will host a press conference with ICFF guest of honour Paola Cortellesi.
*Guest star in attendance. Subject to change at the actors discretion.

He’s Vittorio De Sica’s son,Carlo Verdone’s brother-in-law, and he’s the reigning King of Cinepanettone.

We are so excited to have Christian De Sica as a guest star this year at ICFF! Christian is an amazing Italian singer, actor and director who has taken on many different roles since his television debut in 1971. His father was celebrated Italian film director Vittorio De Sica, and Christian is helping us celebrate our Bello to Beautiful program which is bridging the gap between Italian classics, like the ones his father directed, and modern films.

Vittorio De Sica with his son, actor Christian De Sica

If you’ve ever seen one of the movies that are affectionately dubbed Cinepanettone, the slightly bawdy Christmas films that don’t have A LOT to do with Christmas, you know Christian De Sica. He’s starred in all of the big ones like Natale in Sudafrica (Christmas in South Africa), Natale a Beverly Hills, and Natale in Crociera (Christmas on a Cruise), delighting holiday audiences with the tantalizing stuff we used to think of as “bedroom farce”.

ICFF is proud to have Christian De Sica will be joining us in Toronto for the 6^th edition of our festival. One of the most famous actors in Italy thanks to his professional career, his true multi-faceted talent, and the popularity and box office success of virtually all his films, TV series and theatrical performances.

“I’m a street acrobat; I feel like an actor. I feel like a showman. A comedian. Someone who sings, acts, dances. A person in this profession should know how to do everything. […] To a certain extent, that’s how my father was, too, that was the school. Then, of course, some people do it better and others do it worse”.

Sabrina Ferilli with Christian De Sica in Natale a New York

Christian De Sica Fun Facts!

• His father, Vittorio De Sica, was one of the most important Neorealist directors.
• He’s married to Silvia Verdone, sister of Carlo Verdone.
• Roberto Rossellini was his early mentor.
• He named his son, Brando, after Marlon Brando.
• He’s won 3 David Di Donatello Awards for acting.
• He starred with Johnny Depp in the English language hit, The Tourist.

Meet Christian De Sica

Presenter: Liam Lacey

Liam Lacey was the film critic for The Globe and Mail for more than twenty years, as well as contributing to various broadcast outlets and publications. He is currently a freelance writer, principally for the new film review site, original-cin.ca

Comedic and dramatic actor, loved by fans and critics alike, Gullotta won the prestigious David di Donatello in 1987 for the best supporting actor in the film Il Camorrista, and subsequently in 1989 he won the David di Donatello, likewise as best supporting actor for the film Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, which won an Oscar for the best foreign film that year. Gullotta has also won two Nastro d’Argento awards for best supporting actor for the film Mi manda Picone and for the film Vajont.

Meet Leo Gullotta

*Guest star in attendance. Subject to change at the guest discretion.

La Pazza Gioia (Like Crazy)

ICFF Festival-goers are going to GO CRAZY for this award-winning Italian comedy of the year.

Nominated for 16 David Di Donatello Awards, and winning 5, we cannot wait to screen La Pazza Gioia at this year’s ICFF! Paolo Virzì, indisputably one of Italy’s top directors, created a “Thelma and Louise” all’Italiana with two of Italy’s finest actresses; Virzì’s wife Micaela Ramazzotti. Ramazzotti and co-star Valeria Bruni Tedeschi show off what they know how to do best, each in her own special way.

In La Pazza Gioia (Like Crazy), Bruni Tedeschi (who has perfected the role of the over-wound and unstable woman) plays the institutionalized Beatrice; Ramazzotti plays her roommate Donatella.
Valeria sticks with the personification we expect from her but has never done it with this amount of explosive authority. The character of “Beatrice” is the product of everyone working on the movie doing his or her job really well. Virzì and fellow scriptwriter (director) Francesca Archibugi nail the dialogue in a way that tops what either of these accomplished screenwriters have achieved to date.

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

In The Forefront, Micaela Ramazzotti

Ramazzotti, on the other hand, is the polar opposite of type-cast as the deeply depressed, tattooed and anorexic Donatella and any idea that she’s riding her husband’s coat tails has been long disproved. Her performance is award-winningly intense; she’s dug down so deep into herself to achieve this level of authentic bleakness that I can imagine it was impossible to completely crawl back out at the end of the work day.

Director of photography Vladan Radovic captures Beatrice’s true essence, the delicate flower /emotional train wreck that never stops moving, never stops buzzing, and couldn’t if she wanted to (and hence, the mental institution that is her home.)

Micaela Ramazzotti And Valeria Bruni Tedesch, La Pazza Gioia

“I fell in love right away with the film as soon as I read the script,” Radovic told us. “The cinematography follows characters and their constant mood changes throughout the film, but also through the scenes, and ultimately even in a single shot. There was one time that I invisibly changed the light during the shot because the character changed emotions while walking. I changed the light from warm to cold to follow his state of mind.”

He went on, “There are several scenes in the film where Paolo wanted to shoot in light that’s particularly special because it doesn’t last very long, for example, the scenes at sunrise and also the really long scene at sunset. For me it was a cool challenge and I planned my work to accommodate this requirement of direction that brought a special atmosphere to the film. We liked so many of the scenes we shot at dawn so much that we switched them with a lot of the daytime scenes and we did it knowing that we’d be facing practical problems for the implementation.”

To be clear, this is not a Thelma and Louise remake. The two mental hospital roommates break out and hit the road so yes, it’s #roadtripmovie and it’s #buddymovie and it’s #chickflick, but it’s so much more. Again, everyone who had something to do with this movie did a really good job, and the whole is much greater than sum of its parts. What a team! With Virzì’s brother Carlo Virzì creating the music for the film in the way that has changed Italian movie soundtracks forever, and cinematography from Radovic, perhaps the top DP in the business La Pazza Gioia is a clear “not-to-be-missed” highlight of this year’s Italian Contemporary Film Festival.

Guest Stars in attendance at the Closing in Toronto are Christian De Sica, Alan Barillaro, and more!

Watch La Pazza Gioia:

Micaela Ramazzotti and Valeria Bruni Tedesch, La Pazza Gioia

Toronto-born chef David Rocco has achieved world recognition in his career. Hailed as aa skilled Italian chef, his four television programs and four bestselling novels have made him known in over 120 countries across the globe. His programs dive into a love for Italy’s culture and way of life as well as the simplicity of its elegant food.

Meet David Rocco

*Guest star in attendance. Subject to change at the guest discretion.

Orecchie

We are excited to screen Alessandro Aronadio’s Orecchie at this year’s #ICFF17! Here are the top 10 reasons to add it to your MUST-SEE list!

1) Orecchie (Ears) was written and directed by Aronadio.

2) Aronadio is a Fulbright scholar (for life, he tells us), studied in Los Angeles, and is fluent in English.

3) The end of the movie is a kind of Rorschach test that Aronadio has created to evaluate our psychological evaluation of it. Did you feel hopeful or depressed? Aronadio wants to know.

4) Rocco Papaleo plays an unusual priest that believes that a lot of the Bible is nonsense.

Rocco Papaleo, Orecchie

5) Orecchie is a sort of philosophy lesson, referencing Nietzsche, for example: “You’re not more intelligent. You’re just unhappier.”

6) The movie’s star, Daniele Parisi, bears a striking resemblance to Aronadio, one that he insists is a coincidence, but we’re not so sure…

Daniele Parisi

Alessandro Aronadio

7) Parisi’s character has no name.

8) He wakes up to find a note on his refrigerator that says, “Your friend Luigi has died. PS I took the car.” But he doesn’t know anyone named Luigi.

9) Orecchie premiered at the 2016 Venice Film Festival and went home with 3 awards.
10) Aronadio’s favorite thing about the film is that it was so lo budget that it’s his alone, didn’t have to answer to anyone, and could make Orecchie exactly the way he wanted to.

Showtimes

Actress

Plot

Every year five hundred thousand young people leave Italy and flee overseas. Among the new emigrants there are a lot of ordinary young people seeking their fortune. Sandro and Luciano are two of them. To start up a new business in Italy is an hopeless dream for young people. Now there’s a place instead where – Sandro and Luciano – believe that everything is possible, Cuba. But they will meet a beautiful, strong, sentimental italian woman, Nora, who is going to change their lives.

Director

Giovanni Veronesi

Giovanni Veronesi – born in Prato, on August 31, 1962 – is an Italian film screenwriter, actor and director and he is the brother of writer Sandro Veronesi. He has written scripts for Francesco Nuti, Leonardo Pieraccioni, Massimo Ceccherini, Carlo Verdone, before being a commercial success film maker with Che ne sarà di noi and specially boxoffice winners Manuale d’amore and Manuale d’amore 2. His current partner is actress Valeria Solarino, whom Veronesi directed in Che ne sarà di noi..

Trama

Oggi molti ragazzi italiani lasciano il Paese natìo e viaggiano, sparpagliati nel mondo, alla ricerca di un luogo dove diventare grandi. Due di loro, Sandro e Luciano, vanno fuori dalle rotte battute dai loro coetanei e approdano a Cuba, all’inseguimento di un’attesa svolta economica. Ma il loro destino è segnato e s’imbattono immediatamente in Nora, una ragazza bella e irriducibile, sentimentale, estrema e italiana pure lei, che cambierà le loro vite.

Regista

Giovanni Veronesi

Giovanni Veronesi – nato a Prato, il 31 Agosto 1962 – è uno sceneggiatore, regista e atto-re cinematografico italiano ed è fratello dello scrittore Sandro Veronesi. Ha scritto sce-neggiature per Francesco Nuti, Leonardo Pieraccioni e Massimo Ceccherini, facendo an-che qualche cameo nei film che sceneggiava per loro, prima di raggiungere il successo come regista con Che ne sarà di noi, Manuale d’amore, Manuale d’amore 2 – Capitoli successivi, Italians, Genitori & figli – Agitare bene prima dell’uso e Manuale d’amore 3..

RÉSUMÉ

Chaque année, cinq cent mille jeunes quittent l’Italie et fuient à l’étranger. Parmi les nouveaux émigrés, il y a beaucoup de jeunes qui sont à la recherche de leur fortune. Sandro et Luciano sont deux d’entre eux. Démarrer une nouvelle entreprise en Italie est un rêve désespéré pour les jeunes. Maintenant, il y a une place où – Sandro et Luciano – croient que tout est possible, Cuba. Mais ils rencontreront une belle femme italienne, forte et sentimentale. Nora changera leurs vies pour toujours.

Directeur Bio

Giovanni Veronesi

Giovanni Veronesi – né à Prato le 31 août 1962 – est un scénariste, un acteur et un réalisateur italien, et il est le frère de l’écrivain Sandro Veronesi. Il a écrit des scénarios pour Francesco Nuti, Leonardo Pieraccioni, Massimo Ceccherini, Carlo Verdone, avant d’être un producteur de succès commercial avec et avec grand succès aux guichets et . Son partenaire actuel est l’actrice Valeria Solarino, que Veronesi a dirigée dans Che ne sarà di noi.

Synopsis

David is in Naples: one of the world’s oldest inhabited cities and a treasure trove for foodies and travel junkies alike. Famous for its music, museums, and thriving arts scene, this Southern Italian city is also the birthplace of pizza and espresso as we know it, making it the perfect place for David to embark on a culinary adventure. He uncovers hidden gems in the city and explores the surrounding scenic islands of Capri, Ischia, Procida and the beautiful Sorrento Peninsula. Through David, we get to know the proud and passionate Neapolitans and experience the real Naples: gritty, colorful, vibrant and full of life.

Executive Producer

David Rocco

Canadian-born celebrity chef, executive producer and author David Rocco brings his passion for food and healthy cooking to millions of kitchens every day, through his worldwide hit television programs. David is most known for producing and hosting the television series David Rocco’s Dolce Vita, and publishing four cookbooks David Rocco’s Dolce Vita, Made in Italy, and David Rocco’s Dolce Famiglia.

Trama

David si trova a Napoli per una nuova puntata della sua trasmissione David Rocco’s Dolce Vita, dedicata allo street food partenopeo. È arrivato in città il sabato di Pasqua e la prima tappa è stata la pizza. Prima da Sorbillo ai Tribunali, poi da Guglielmo Vuolo e infine da Ciro Oliva da Concettina ai Tre Santi alla Sanità. Gira tra i vicoli di Napoli, Bacoli e Pozzuoli in Vespa. Il suo cicerone è un altro influencer del web in materia di food, il napoletano Egidio Cerrone. Tappe obbligate per la Pizza fritta, Maria Cacialli e La Masardona: “The ultimate Neapolitan street food!”, scrive Rocco. Poi in Vespa verso Monte di Procida per provare i panini di Mazzella.

Produttore Esecutivo

David Rocco

David Rocco è un famoso chef, produttore esecutivo e autore canadese che porta la sua passione per il cibo e la cucina sana a migliaia di spettatori ogni giorno grazie ai suoi programmi televisivi di successo. E’ conosciuto soprattutto per la serie televisiva David Rocco’s Dolce Vita, di cui è produttore e presentatore e per aver pubblicato quatto libri di cucina di successo come David Rocco’s Dolce Vita, Made in Italy, and David Rocco’s Dolce Famiglia.

Director: Luca Lucini

Country: Italy
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 92 min.
Year: 2016
Production: Bianca Film | Rai Cinema
Distributor: Bianca Film

Language: Italian
Subtitles: English

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VAUGHAN
May 4th, 2017
8:00 pm Screening
Colossus Vaughan
(3555 Highway 7 West)

TORONTO
May 12 th, 2017
9:00 pm Screening
Tiff Bell Lightbox
(350 King St W)

$ 13+hst Movie Ticket

*Once you have purchased the ticket, please print your receipt and bring it with you to the event. It will serve as your admission ticket.

Plot

Fabiola and Lucia have hated each other since their first meeting. Though they are completely different from each other, they share a man in their life, Paolo, Lucia’s ex husband, now married to Fabiola.

When Paolo dies unexpectedly, he leaves behind little Paolino, a half Chinese boy, whose existence had been kept secret from the women.

Lucia and Fabiola, though still overwhelmed by resentment, are forced to come closer.They must find a way to put aside their enmity and personal disagreements to raise the child together. They will find themselves inadequate in their new role as mothers, but will embark in a journey of self-discovery, growing fonder and fonder of little Paolino.

Eventually they will join forces to obtain full custody of the child.

Trama

Fabiola e Lucia si odiano da quando si conoscono. Non potrebbero essere più diverse, ma le accomuna un uomo, Paolo, che è stato il marito di Lucia ed è l’attuale marito di Fabiola.

Quando Paolo scompare lasciando in eredità il piccolo Paolino, un bimbo per metà cinese del quale entrambe le donne ignoravano l’esistenza, Lucia e Fabiola, anche se ancora animate dall’antico astio, dovranno necessariamente tentare di mettere da parte le proprie divergenze personali, frequentarsi e trovare il modo di coesistere.

Benché inadeguate al nuovo ruolo di madri, iniziano un viaggio dentro se stesse e finiranno presto per affezionarsi al piccolo, tanto da dovere unire le forze per ottenere l’affido del piccolo Paolo, che ha ormai fatto breccia nei loro cuori.

This week at The Ritz-Carlton, Toronto, the Italian Contemporary Film Festival (ICFF), presented by IC Savings, announced our lineup consisting of 180 screenings, including features, shorts and documentaries, of which several are premieres.

This is our sixth edition of a Festival that celebrates the best in contemporary Italian cinema from around the world, taking place June 8th-16th, 2017 in Toronto, Vaughan, Hamilton, Montreal, Québec City and new this year, Vancouver!

ICFF will bring together film enthusiasts with some of the most influential and prolific directors, actors and industry leaders, including Academy Award®-winning director Alan Barillaro and producer Andrea Iervolino, who will participate in a special tribute to celebrate the contribution of Italian-Canadians to the film industry.

From Bello to Beautiful: The Art and Impact of Italian-Canadian Cinema is a dynamic 7-day free-admission screening series of a multitude of inspirational films in honour of Canada and Ontario’s 150th Birthday, opening this celebration with Noelle’s Journey, a documentary by Peter Gentile about two immigrants who left southern Italy for a new life in Canada.

The Future Ways of Living – a documentary by Marcello Ferrara and George Brown University, as well as Il Fiume ha sempre ragione/The River Always Knows, directed by Silvio Soldini, will also premiere at the festival as part of the Bello to Beautiful program. The screening will feature the publisher Alberto Casiraghi and will include a poetry reading by Rob Marra e Lucio Iacobelli.

Italian box office celebrity and superstar Christian De Sica, son of iconic director Vittorio De Sica, will be receiving the ICFF’s Lifetime Achievement Award, joining other screen legends winners Al Pacino, Academy Award® Winner Roberto Benigni and film star Claudia Cardinale. De Sica will also be presenting his latest films, Poveri ma ricchi/Poor but Rich and Fraulein/Una fiaba d’inverno/A Winter Tale.

“This year’s Festival lineup focuses on three aspects of Italian cinema: creating a bridge between the classics, due to the phenomenal presence of film royalty Christian De Sica, welcoming Paola Cortellesi, who will show the importance of women in film as they headline both the opening and closing screenings, as well as celebrating Canada’s 150th by showcasing the incredible contribution of Italian-Canadians to cinema,” said Cristiano de Florentiis, ICFF Artistic Director.

”We believe that ICFF – through the years – has strongly built its reputation within the Canadian audience and this edition is going to represent another great opportunity for the film industry to showcase its best,” said Paul Golini, President of ICFF’s Board of Directors. “ICFF 2017 will definitely shine thanks to its wide range of features, documentaries and shorts selection along with the presence of several protagonists of the film industry here in Canada.”

“The Festival has a very positive impact on Canada’s diverse economy” said Maurizio Magnifico, ICFF Managing Director. “With thousands of ticket sales, as well as the fundamental support of our sponsors, our festival not only aids the economy while supporting local businesses, but also draws international media coverage, visitors and attracts major attention from the film industry.”

ICFF will also honour De Sica’s father, Vittorio De Sica, a four-time Academy Award® winning director with the screening of one of his most brilliant comedies, Matrimonio all’italiana/Marriage Italian style. In conversation with Christian De Sica will also play a main role in the sixth edition of the ICFF, when he’ll openly discuss his work with the audience as well as the prolific productions of his father Vittorio.

ICFF’s opening film is Qualcosa di nuovo/Something New, a vibrant comedy directed by Cristina Comencini, starring Paola Cortellesi and Micaela Ramazzotti. Special guest Paola Cortellesi will be with us, known for her eclectic talent as an actress, singer, voice actress and presenter, and starred in over 20 movies as well as a number of theatrical shows, television and radio shows.

Other special guests of the ICFF 2017 will include Giancarlo Giannini, an Oscar® nominated Italian actor, director and multilingual voice actor who’s created an international reputation for his leading roles in Italian films, as well as for his mastery of a variety of languages and dialects.

The ICFF will also have the pleasure of hosting actor Franco Nero, who was discovered by director John Huston and became famous for his unforgettable role as the lonely gunfighter in Django by Sergio Corbucci and his acting performance alongside Bruce Willis, in Die Hard 2. Giannini and Nero star in The Neighborhood, the latest feature by prolific Italian-Canadian artist and filmmaker Frank D’Angelo and a World Premiere at ICFF 2017. The Neighborhood features Hollywood stars such as Danny Aiello, who will attend the screening with the entire cast of D’Angelo’s movie.

We are also excited for Director Ruth Borgobello to come directly from Australia, presenting to Canadian audiences her movie The Space Between – the first ever Italian-Australian film co-production. There will also be a World Premiere of Jackie and the Ladies: 65 Years of The Ladies’Auxiliary of the CIBPA by Diana Di Mauro.

We’ll close our 9 day festival featuring the film La pazza gioia/Crazy Love, directed by Paolo Virzì, and starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Micaela Ramazzotti, which won the David di Donatello for Best Picture – the equivalent of an Italian Oscar.

Parties

The ICFF is ecstatic to be once again planning our extravagant Opening Party and Closing Gala, now our festival staples. Our glamorous and star-studded events enable us the opportunity to continually expand this cherished reputation. This year, the Opening Party’s at QRC West and the Closing Party’s at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, a soirée dedicated to walking the Red Carpet and rubbing shoulders with celebrity guests.

We’re so excited for the 6th edition of our festival. For movie and party tickets please visit our website at ww.icff.ca. Stay up to date with everything happening with our festival by following us on www.facebook.com/icffcanada, www.twitter.com/icffcanada and www.Instagram.com/ICFFcanada.

DANNY AIELLO

Danny Aiello is part of a large group of American actors with Italian origins that created the stereotypical Italian mob boss or typical pizza chef in modern film, by having the ability to bring these various traditional Italian characters to the big screen.

He made his big screen debut in the ’70s, participating in The Godfather – Part II. At the peak of her music career Madonna had Aiello play the role of her father in her music video – Papa Don’t Preach. The ‘80s are where Aiello gave his best, playing multiple feature roles.

His most famous role is most likely that of an Italian-American pizza chef named Sal in Spike Lee’s film, Do the Right Thing, for which he was nominated for an Oscar in 1990 for best supporting actor..Aiello also made himself a well-known film figure in his role of police captain Vincent Aiello in Sergio Leone’s best work, Once Upon a Time in America and for his role of Monk in The Purple Rose of Cairo oby Woody Allen.

DANNY AIELLO

Danny Aiello fa parte della grande schiera di attori statunitensi, di origine italiana, che hanno fatto la storia del cinema contemporaneo ed in cui ha ricoperto diversi ruoli dimostrando grande abilità nel portare sul grande schermo personaggi come uno spietato gangster o un pizzaiolo.

Debutta sul grande schermo negli anni ’70, partecipando anche a Il padrino – Parte II. La cantante Madonna – all’apice del successo – lo ha voluto per interpretare la figura di suo padre nel video musicale Papa Don’t Preach. Gli anni ‘80 sono poi quelli in cui Aiello dà il meglio di sé, interpretando diversi ruoli da attore caratterista.

La sua interpretazione più celebre è probabilmente quella del pizzaiolo italo-americano Sal nel film di Spike Lee, Fa’ la cosa giusta, per il quale fu nominato al premio Oscar nel 1990 come miglior attore non protagonista..Aiello si fece notare al grande pubblico anche per l’nterpretazione del capitano di polizia Vincent Aiello nel capolavoro di Sergio Leone, C’era una volta in America e per il ruolo di Monk in La rosa purpurea del Cairo di Woody Allen.

The Italian Contemporary Film Festival [ICFF] cordially invites you to our press conference at The Ritz‐Carlton on Monday, May 8, 2017 at 12:00 p.m. We will unveil this year’s line‐up of film premieres for the 6th edition of the ICFF, the guest stars that will be present, the 150 Ontario Bello to Beautiful program and other key aspects.

This will be the only press conference for the entire festival, taking place in Toronto, Vancouver, Montréal, Quebec City, Vaughan, and Hamilton.

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Actress Claudia Gusmano

At just 31-years-old director Marta Savina embodies Italian cinema’s bright future.

Her short film, Viola, Franca is based on the true story of a young Sicilian woman in 1965 who was being forced to marry her rapist because of a custom known as “reparation marriage”; the rapist marries his victim and “saves” the woman’s reputation. Seventeen-year-old Franca’s simple act of refusing to marry her attacker and insisting that he be arrested was monumental in establishing rights for women in Italy. In fact, hers was the first rape trial in the country.

And yet, Savina says that it was important to her that the rapist, Filippo (Carlo Calderone) wasn’t portrayed as “just some evil guy”.

“This is probably controversial, but in a way he’s almost like the victim”, she says. “He was just how some men were, and that’s just how you treated women.”

“Franca’s definitely not a victim. She fell victim to violence but she bounces back. He, on the other hand, was a product of that society”, says Savina.

Claudia Gusmano

 
Claudia Gusmano, who plays Franca, says that the first time she watched the film she turned to Savina and said, “Is that me?” because she almost didn’t recognize herself. She says that she cried because she saw so many qualities in Franca that she wished she had.

The most surprising thing of all about Viola, Franca is its length, just 15 minutes long. “We have just 13 minutes to tell the story”, says Savina, “and that’s hard because you have to be really, really disciplined and put in the very central things that you need to tell the story.”

“Otherwise you end up just muddying the waters and losing the focus. We really stripped out anything that wasn’t vital.”

As for the real Franca Viola, Savina says that she’s met her and that they agreed not to share what they’d talked about. “She’s obviously a very private person.”

Carlo Calderone, Marta Savina and Claudia Gusmano

“I did a lot of research and I hope I found the essence of the character. It’s a biopic, of course, but you have to let the character live and breathe.”

And there’s good news; according to Savina this short film is just chapter 1 of a feature length film that is in the works. “We’re getting together the financing right now, because obviously there is more to the story”, she explained.

The film is especially important to Savina because she says she really wanted to inspire young girls. “If she could do it”, says Savina, “maybe I can do it as well.”

Indivisibili was one of the big winners at this year’s David Di Donatello Awards in Italy. Nominated for 17 awards this film took home 5 Davids and had it’s North America premier last year at TIFF. We are looking forward to having this film in Toronto, Vaughan, Hamilton, Montreal and Quebec City as part of #ICFF17! For tickets please click here.

Indivisibili (Indivisible)

In Indivisibili (Indivisible) eighteen-year-old conjoined twins Daisy and Viola (twins Angela and Marianna Fontana) have been supporting their family earning as much as €80,000 a year performing at weddings and first holy communion festivities, but are they succeeding because they are pop stars, or because they are side show geeks?

Angela Fontana And Marianna Fontana

Whatever the reason, their parents couldn’t waste the girls’ hard-earned money any more efficiently if they tried.

Their home in the seaside town of Castel Volturno (north of Naples) is furnished with top of the line everything and their dad, Peppe (Massimiliano Rossi) and his wife Titti (played by David di Donatello winner Antonia Truppo) won’t win any parents-of-the-year awards any time soon. When the girls were little, life was pretty good for them, too. They loved singing and each other and didn’t know any other way of living. But can they, should they be separated?

Director Edoardo De Angelis cleaned up at this year’s David di Donatello Awards (6 awards) and Indivisibili was on the list of films considered to represent Italy at the Oscars; in fact, Paolo Sorrentino famously said that it should have been selected.

“The first time I knew I had a hit was when the screenwriter pitched me the idea; the second was when I met the girls,” says De Angelis. “They were the body and the soul of the story.”

Angela and Marianna Fontana, professional singers in real life and new to acting, believe it or not. “We identified so much with the characters”, the say. “We read and read and read the script many times; actually before we even read the script we knew we wanted to make the movie.”

They say that they’ve been “living in a kind of symbiosis” their whole life, are very close to each other, and can identify with the pain of separation even though they aren’t physically connected. “The story is about ‘amore veramente indivisibile” (truly indivisible love) and talks about a psychological bond that is even stronger than the physical one,”, they say.

indivisibili

 
Indivisibili uses the unusual dialect of the girls’ region making it necessary for subtitles, even for Italians. “It’s a very obscure dialect,” says De Angelis, “and the idea was to give them a language that was a sort of mysterious code between them.”

As do all good directors on a budget,De Angelis used the local talent for everything from actors to technicians . “With the cuts in government funding for cinema,” says De Angelis “we have learned how to make films with little money. We talk about reality in our films,” he says, “and they are made with little money, but we are free with the way we make them. Even with the mainstream film distributors we have a kind of freedom to produce the kind of realism that we want to.”

Antonia Truppo, Indivisibili

 
Antonia Truppo won best supporting actress for her role in last year’s big hit Mi Chiamavano Jeeg Robot and then again this year for her role in this film. De Angelis says of her, “I always admire beautiful actresses that are willing to and so successfully take on the parts for unattractive characters, as she does playing Nunzia in Indivisibili. Nunzia is a bad mother on so many levels, is drunk most of the time, and probably not faithful to her husband.”

“Antonia’s a great human being,”says De Angelis. “She arrived at the audition with a completely different idea about the character, but after one reading she immediately changed. This showed how really smart and flexible she is as an actress.”

ICFF is excited to be well into planning our extravagant Opening Party and Closing Gala with what has become a staple to our festival. These glamorous and star-studded events enable ICFF to build on and expand this cherished reputation.

This year, the Opening Party will be held at QRC West and the Closing Party will be held at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, a soirée dedicated to walking the Red Carpet and rubbing shoulders with celebrity guests.

Past ICFF gala’s included the likes of Raoul Bova, Claudia Cardinale, Roberto Benigni, Chef Massimo Capra, Mischa Barton, Andrea Iervolino and Lady Monika Bacardi, David Rocco, and Giacomo Gianniotti to name a few…

Queen Richmond Centre

The Queen Richmond Centre at Richmond and Peter will capture your complete attention with the 70-foot atrium and soaring x-shaped delta frames, creating a mystical energy in perfect synergy with opening the ICFF. Home to exclusive events, private residences and our Opening Party sponsor Ricarda’s, our plush party in this recently restructured building should be marked on your calendar for June 8^th. With this dazzling ambience filled by a night of savouring the most decadent Italian cuisines in Toronto beginning at 9:00 p.m., we advise you to purchase your tickets right away!

Lavis Ritz Carlton

In true ICFF fashion, we will once again host our exclusive closing gala at the lavish Ritz-Carlton, surrounded by a luxurious atmosphere, where guests can indulge in the splendid creations of superior cuisine while enjoying and celebrating the effervescent surroundings. This star-studded evening on June 16^th will also include our annual award ceremony, live music, as well as extravagant entertainment that will begin at 9:00 p.m. Start preparing your Red Carpet walk because this is definitely a gala you shouldn’t miss!

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 Le Confessioni was so popular during our Annual Program, we HAD to bring it to our ICFF audiences in Quebec City and Montreal. Le Confessioni was a highly anticipated movie in 2016, and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay, Best Writer, Best Actor (Toni Servillo), Best Supporting Actor, and Best Photography at the David Di Donatello Awards.

ICFF 2017 Screenings:

June 10th at 7pm at Cinéma Cartier in Quebec City

June 13th at 7pm at Cinémathèque in Montreal

That director Roberto Andò’s movies are as satisfying as a good book is no mistake because Andò is also an author; his latest movie, Le Confessioni (The Confessions) is like a mystery novel that is impossible to put down.Billed as a “thriller”, Le Confessioni is likewise a good old-fashioned whodunit with a big “Clue Game” cast of characters in forced seclusion at a picturesque luxury hotel by the sea plus a murder (or was it a suicide?). Everybody seems a little sinister, including the monk (Toni Servillo) who was invited by the rich and powerful director (Daniel Auteui) for reasons that no one’s quite sure of.

G8 organizers have taken over the resort for a summit and leaders from around the world are there to discuss their top-secret new plan for making the poorest countries in the world even poorer; the film has plenty of lessons about power, money, and morality, but the mystery is what will really draw you in.

It turns out the monk is there for the sole purpose of hearing the director’s confession, and shortly after the two meet, the director’s found dead in his room. Murder or suicide? And does it even matter, since what the group is going to announce about it will be based on which explanation they feel will less severely impact the stock market. What’s the big secret that nobody wants to come out? What’s the monk hiding, and can anyone be trusted?

Tony Servillo  has made a career-playing guys that are unflappable and cool as cucumbers, but this is a different kind of serenity, one that comes from integrity instead of arrogance. As everyone around him frets and panics, insisting he tell them what the director shared with him the night he died, the monk is relaxed and composed in his resolve to keep the seal of the confessional.

Andò’s films are particularly original and internationally admired for a reason: He sees the future of Italian cinema and is firmly in the midst of innovative filmmakers who changing the face of Italian cinema. “In the last fifteen years”, he says, “filmmakers have given up on the idea of making films with no relationship to the audience.”

He talks about what he calls a “mortification” of Italian cinema that had developed in previous decades, where, “unlike in the US where filmmaking is a strategic industry, Italians just wanted movies that didn’t hurt”.He says that iconic director Bernardo Bertolucci, for example “made beautiful films that nobody saw, and it was in the moment that he (Bertolucci) decided that he wanted an audience that he began to fill theaters, because if you don’t want an audience, then why would an audience want you?”

Andò and Toni Servillo are great friends and had been looking for a project to do together for a while when they made Andò’s book Il Trono Vuoto into the movie Viva La Libertà. According to Andò, Servillo (perhaps Italy’s most important actor) is a simple man who has become a “messenger for Italy.”

“It was obvious even when I was writing Viva La Libertà that it would have to be him (Servillo)”, says Andò, and you’ll see that the same is true for Servillo as Roberto Salus in the spellbinding Le Confessioni.

Toni Servillo and Roberto Andò

To purchase tickets for Le Confessioni and to watch the trailer please click here.

Director: Rocco Papaleo

Plot

Gegè, a fading pop singer, is invited to a tour in Uruguay, where thirty years before he had performed obtaining an astounding success.

Not having enough money for the flight, he boards a ship and meets Ruggero, a loner cook who hasn’t touched ground for the last four years.

The two feel an immediate dislike for each other and, as an act of spite, Ruggero locks Gegè in the refrigerator.

Due to this occurrence, Gegè’s voice suddenly fades and he is diagnosed with a block of his vocal chords. Feeling responsible, Ruggero pretends to be the singer himself.

From then on, the destinies and the lives of these strangers, united by the same desire for redemption, will intertwine in surprising ways.

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Gegè, cantante in crisi economica e di popolarità, riceve un invito per ritornare in Uruguay, dove trenta anni prima si era esibito con successo.

Non avendo denaro sufficiente per il volo aereo, si imbarca come passeggero su una nave, dove incontra Ruggero, cuoco solitario che non scende a terra da quattro anni.

Da subito scatta una istintiva antipatia: per dispetto Ruggero chiude Gegè nella cella frigorifera. Questo incidente causa a Gegè un improvviso abbassamento della voce.

A Montevideo, Gegè viene visitato e la prima diagnosi accerta un blocco delle corde vocali. Sentendosi responsabile, Ruggero finge con l’organizzazione di essere lui il cantante.

Da questo momento, i destini e le vite dei due uomini, accomunati dallo stesso desiderio di rinascita, si intrecceranno.

 Year-Round program 2015/16
Ten months of movies

Confused and Happy
Confusi e felici (2014)

Genre: COMEDY
Duration: 93 MIN
Presented by: IIC TORONTO
CONSOLATO D’ITALIA
GRILLO BARRISTERS

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Il Capitale Umano
Human Capital (2014)

Genre: DRAMA
Duration: 96 MIN
Presented by: MARTINELLO
FIERAMOSCA
THAT’S ITALY

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19

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Un Natale Stupefacente (2014)

Genre: COMMEDY
Duration: 100 MIN
Presented by: ROSEHAVEN
NUMAGE TRADING
CULINARY STUDIO

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La scuola più bella del mondo (2014)

Genre: COMEDY
Duration: 98 MIN
Presented by: MONTEMURRO
IN QUATTRO
PIZZANOVA

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14

22

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Venetian Carnival Party (2015)

Location: BERKELEY CHURCH
Time: TBC
Price: SPECIAL PRICE
for L’ ALTRA ITALIA
MEMBERS

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12

14

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Labyrinth of Lies (2015)

Genre: DRAMA
Duration: 122 MIN
Presented by: TD – VELTRI
FERRERO
POLICARO

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3

18

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Marina
Marina (2014)

Genre: DRAMA
Duration: 120 MIN
Presented by: GALBANI
AIR TRANSAT
PRISTINE PRINTING

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22

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Se Dio Vuole
God Willing (2015)

Genre: COMEDY
Duration: 87 MIN
Presented by: CORSO ITALIA
STELVIO RESTAURANT
TREVISANA KITCHENS

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5

13

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ICFF Junior

The best Italian films for STUDENTS
Program for CHILDREN and YOUTH
Special SCHOOL booking

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9

14

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ICFF

Special price L’Altra Italia members
9 DAYS of quality Italian Films
from AROUND THE WORD
60 Features, shorts and documentaries

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17

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All Roads Lead To Rome

Join us for a night of Italian film “All Roads Lead to Rome” outdoors.

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16

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La Stoffa Dei Sogni

Join us for a night of Italian film “La Stoffa Dei Sogni” outdoors.

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13

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 Year-Round program 2014/15
Ten months of movies

Ti Sposo ma non troppo
The Pinguin’s Move (2014)

Genre: COMEDY
Duration: 94 MIN
Presented by: SAVERIO VELTRI, FIERAMOSCA

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La Mossa del Pinguino
The Penguin’s Move (2014)

Genre: COMEDY
Duration: 94 MIN
Presented by: MONTEMURRO,
IN QUATTRO

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Il Venditore di Medicine
The Medicine Seller (2013)

Genre: DRAMA
Duration: 105 MIN
Presented by: ROSEHAVEN,
TREVISANA KITCHENS

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La Nostra Terra
Mafia & Tomatoes (2014)

Genre: DRAMA
Duration: 98 MIN
Presented by: FERRERO

 

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L’Intrepido
A Lonely Hero (2013)

Genre: DRAMA / COMEDY
Duration: 104 MIN
Presented by: AIR TRANSAT

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Sei Mai Stata Sulla Luna? (2015)

Genre: SENTIMENTAL COMEDY
Duration: 119 MIN
FREE ADMISSION

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Ti Recordi di Me?
Remember me? (2014)

Genre: ROMANTIC COMEDY
Duration: 93 MIN
Presented by: IIC, ICE

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L’arbitro
The Referee (2014)

Genre: COMEDY
Duration: 96 MIN
Presented by: IC SAVINGS,
BIA – EMERY VILLAGE

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Il Peggior Natale della mia Vita
The Worst Christmas of my life (2012)

Genre: COMEDY
Duration: 103 MIN
Presented by: MARTINELLO,
NUMAGETRADING

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Married for 25 years, they first met in 1983. Roberto Benigni was making the movie Tu Mi Turbi and chose this unknown actress from Cesena to play Maria.

“There is a ‘before and after’ with her”, said Benigni. “Before her everything (in my life) was a joke: but comedy without a feminine is like a life half-lived, one you can’t imagine.”

Roberto Benigni was talking about his wife, Nicoletta Braschi.

“From then on, since she entered my life, we have done everything together like a theater company, it was her idea to give ourselves freedom by producing our own films”, he added. “She gave me truth. When I was flying, she brought me back to earth. I can’t imagine another face, another presence, another breath that isn’t hers.”

He says that she is always on the set with him, “Or rather, most of the time. The only time she wasn’t there with me is when she had the flu.”

In March of this year, Roberto Benigni was award a special David for his life’s work, and he said that he wasn’t going to thank his wife, Nicoletta, but share the David with her: I did it with her, for her, and thanks to her’

For Benigni’s part, he’s the only Italian man to receive an Oscar for Best Actor for starring in a foreign language film (La Vita È Bella), and he was a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007.

Their most successful collaborations have been the 1998 Oscar Winning La Vita è Bella (Life is Beautiful) (1998) and Johnny Stecchino in 1992, a comedy that cast Braschi as the girlfriend of a mobster (Benigni), and was a big hit in Italy.

In La Vita È Bella Benigni plays an Italian Jewish man who tries to protect his son when they are placed in a concentration camp by telling him that the Holocaust is game they are playing and trying to win. Benigni’s own father spent three years in a camp at Bergen-Belsen and the film is based partly on his father’s experiences.

Braschi plays his wife, who gets herself arrested too so that she can be near her husband and son.

Johnny Stecchino

Their last film together was La Tigre E La Neve (The Tiger And The Snow) in 2005, a “sleeping beauty” romantic comedy set in Rome and in Baghdad during the Iraq War. The film stars the couple with French actor Jean Reno and has a wonderful cameo in a dream sequence by singer Tom Waits.

In 2015 we were honored to host the couple in Toronto with a film retrospective (in collaboration with the Toronto International Film Festival), an exclusive event at The Rosewater Room and Q&As after the film.
                                                         

Today is Nicoletta’s birthday! Auguri!

Some Other Pictures Of Roberto Benigni and Nicoletta Braschi

Roberto Benigni And Nicoletta Braschi In ICFF 2015

In Conversation With Roberto Benigni And Nicoletta Braschi.

Roberto Benigni And Nicoletta Braschi receiving their Life Time Achievement Award at ICFF

In honour of Canada’s 150^th Birthday, the Italian Contemporary Film Festival presented by IC Savings, is proud to present From Bello to Beautiful: The Art and Impact of Italian-Canadian Cinema. This exciting 7-day free-admission screening series of a multitude of inspirational films crafted by Italian-Canadians will run from June 8^th – June 16^th, 2017.

The new slate of programming and events will pay tribute to a selection of key figures in the history of Canadian Cinema, showcasing Italian immigrants that have had immeasurable impact in Ontario, and for the City of Toronto in various sectors including cuisine, construction, and neighbourhoods.

Screenings will take place at the TIFF Bell Lightbox at 350 King St West, Toronto, and Cineplex Cinema Vaughan. Tickets will be available on the ICFF website, or in person at the ICFF and TIFF Box Office.

TICKETS ARE FREE OF CHARGE

*Tickets available May 9th*