Cycle
From 12.11. To 17.11.2007.
Second Review of Contemporary Italian Film
Films in cycle
L' udienza e aperta
(2006)
Directed by: Vincenzo Marra
PHOTOGRAPHY: Mario Amura
Synopsis:
One day at a court in Naples: the protagonists are a seventy-year-old judge, his forty-five-year-old advisor Elena and the most famous criminal law attorney in Naples. They are all in charge of a mafia-related case. However, the film doesn’t only focus on the criminal case but also goes deep into these people’s lives, questions their way of being and the Italian judicial system.
color, 35 mm, 75 min
PROJECTION:
Monday 12.11.2007 AT 18:30
La Madonna in cielo, la” matre” in terra
(Madonna in cielo, la” matre” in terra, 2006)
Directed by: Luigi Di Gianni
PHOTOGRAPHY: Marco Mensa
Synopsis:
This film was inspired by pre-Romanic sculptures, the so-called Matres Matute, figures representing mothers on thrones. It is a documentary that questions the dimensions of the female sex.
Betacam SP, 43 min
PROJECTION:
Monday 12.11.2007 AT 19:45
La stella che non c’e
(2006)
Directed by: Gianni Amelio
PHOTOGRAPHY: Luca Bigazzi
Synopsis:
A Chinese delegation arrives in Italy to buy a machine from an ironworks that is about to close. Vincenzo Buonavolontŕ, who maintains the machines, is convinced that this machine is not suitable for sale and persistently tries to find a malfunction in order to prevent accidents from happening when the new workers handle it. In the process, Vincenzo Buonavolonte travels to China and finds the country to be quite different from how he had imagined it from far away. The film is based on Ermanno R...
color, 35 mm, 104 min
PROJECTION:
Monday 12.11.2007 AT 21:00
L' estate di mio fratello
(2005)
Directed by: Pietro Reggiani
PHOTOGRAPHY: Luca Coassin, Werther Germondari
Synopsis:
This is a story about one summer in Sergio’s life. Sergio, the only son in a rich family, is an imaginative boy who is the center of attention for his parents. Every summer Sergio and his parents leave their apartment in Verona and move to the country. Here Sergio rules his magic kingdom.
color, 35mm, 82 min
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 13.11.2007 AT 18:30
L' orchestra di Piazza Vittorio
(2006)
Directed by: Agostino Ferrente
PHOTOGRAPHY: Greta De Lazzaris, Alberto Fasulo, Simone Pierini, Giovanni Piperno, Sabrina Varani
Synopsis:
This film tells the story about the group called The Vittorio Square Orchestra. It is a mixture of music, solidarity and comedy. The founder of the group was Mario Tronco, a composer of film music, and other members included the pianist from the Piccolo Orchestro Avion Travel and the Apollo 11 association. This musical group finds its home in a neighborhood in Rome in which Italians are an ethnic minority.
color, 35mm, 90 min
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 13.11.2007 AT 21:00
La rieducazione
(2006)
Directed by: Davide Alfonsi
PHOTOGRAPHY: Alessandro Fusto
Synopsis:
Marco is 28 years old. He has just graduated and lives with his mother (who is an addict) and a father who cannot stand him. He doesn’t have a job and spends all his time with priests and children. The film was produced by the Amanda Flor Association whose members are: Davide Alfonsi (screenwriter and director), Denis Malagnino (screenwriter, director and actor), Daniele Guerrini (co-screenwriter and actor), Alessandro Fusto (director, editor and actor). These four friends who normally work...
color, Mini DV, 96 min
PROJECTION:
Wednesday 14.11.2007 AT 18:30
Tre giorni di anarchia
(2004)
Directed by: Vito Zagarrio
PHOTOGRAPHY: Pasquale Mari
Synopsis:
The story takes place in Sicily in 1943. Giuseppe, a soldier on leave, returns to his village. There he finds his family and his old friends who are all affected by the war and Fascism. Great upheaval of the villagers ensues…
color, 35mm, 96 min
PROJECTION:
Wednesday 14.11.2007 AT 21:00
I promessi sposi
(2007)
Directed by: Massimo D’Anolfi
PHOTOGRAPHY: Martina Parenti, Massimo D’Anolfi
Synopsis:
Zaručnici is a comical documentary about people who are involved in a wedding…
color, DV Cam, 73 min
PROJECTION:
Thursday 15.11.2007 AT 18:30
Lettere dal Sahara
(2006)
Directed by: Vittorio De Seta
PHOTOGRAPHY: Antonio Grambone
Synopsis:
Assane has to leave Senegal. He has to quit his school and look for a job. He has a friend in Italy and decides to go there. His illegal journey starts with a shipwreck and arrival to Lampedusa. At first he works illegally but that is not what Assane wants. So, he continues his journey…
color, 35mm, 123 min
PROJECTION:
Thursday 15.11.2007 AT 21:00
Baiano
(2005)
Directed by: Elisabetta Bernardini
PHOTOGRAPHY: Mauro Petito
Synopsis:
The distance between two friends disappears when they play chess. This is a story about the power and durability of friendship.
color, Mini DV, 14 min
PROJECTION:
Friday 16.11.2007 AT 18:30
Quando il fuoco si spegne
(2006)
Directed by: Ivan Gergolet
PHOTOGRAPHY: Emilio Della Chiesa
Synopsis:
Quando il fuoco si spegne is a short feature film that symbolically talks about the ruined intimacy of a woman who survived a concentration camp and her fight against memories that haunt her. The protagonist of this film is Vilma Braini, a professional actress who herself survived horrors of a concentration camp.
14 min
PROJECTION:
Friday 16.11.2007 AT 18:45
Pasolini prossimo nostro
(2006)
Directed by: Giuseppe Bertolucci
Synopsis:
We are on the set of the films Salň and 120 days of Sodom. Even though the film caused many passionate discussions, the calm and rather happy Pasolini allows a small team led by the journalist Gideon Bachmann to follow him. Pasolini and Bachmann have a long and unusual conversation.
HD/35mm, b/w, 63 min
PROJECTION:
Friday 16.11.2007 AT 19:15
Jimmy della collina
(2006)
Directed by: Enrico Pau
PHOTOGRAPHY: Gian Enrico Bianchi
Synopsis:
Sarroch ia a village in southwestern Sardinia that lives in between harbor sirens and factory chimneys. Jimmy, who is about to turn 18, has always lived with his working class family. He gets involved in some criminal activities that cause him trouble. The film is based on Massimo Carlotto’s novel.
color, 35mm, 86 min
PROJECTION:
Friday 16.11.2007 AT 21:00
4-4-2 Il gioco più bello del mondo
(2006)
Directed by: Michele Carillo
PHOTOGRAPHY: Massimo Lupi
Synopsis:
This film consists of four episodes directed by debutants who graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. They all portray the world of soccer in the style of popular comedy. Bolji od Maradone, directed by Michele Carrilla, is a story about a coach (Nino D’Angelo) who brings a talented boy from Naples to Turin to play soccer. Trenerova cura, directed by Claudio Cupellini, tells the story about female soccer. In Balondòr, directed by Francesco Lagi, an amateurish soccer age...
color, 35mm, 100 min
PROJECTION:
Saturday 17.11.2007 AT 18:30
Sfiorarsi
(2006)
Directed by: Angelo Orlando
PHOTOGRAPHY: Massimiliano Trevis
Synopsis:
Sfiorarsi is a story about a meeting of Paolo and Céline; about their “postponed” love. Their love is not realized because their lives run in parallel and enable them to meet often.