Now in its 27th year, the AFI European Union Film Showcase continues its tradition of bringing the best in European cinema to the Washington, DC, region.
This year’s selection of more than 50 films includes international film festival award winners, local box-office hits and debut works by promising new talents, plus many countries’ official Oscar® submissions for Best Foreign Language Film.
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ITALIAN SELECTION:
Il capitale umano (Human Capital) – 2014 Oscar® Selection, Italy ( more info )
Directed by Paolo Virzi – Italy/France 2013 – 110 min
Showtimes: Sat, Dec 6, 7:00 – Thu, Dec 11, 9:30
L’arbitro (The Referee) ( more info )
Directed by Paolo Zucca – Italy/Argentina 2014 – 96 min
Showtimes: Sat, Dec 13, 10:30 – Tue, Dec 16, 5:30 – Thu, Dec 18, 9:30
Anime nere (Black Souls) ( more info )
Directed by Francesco Munzi – Italy/France 2014 – 103 min
Showtimes: Thu, Dec 18, 7:20 – Sat, Dec 20, 5:45
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HUMAN CAPITAL [Il capitale umano] 2014 Oscar® Selection, Italy
DATES: Sat, Dec 6, 7:00; Thu, Dec 11, 9:30
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High-school classmates Serena (Matilde Gioli) and Massimiliano (Guglielmo Pinelli) are dating. Desperate to be a big shot, Serena’s father (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) invests in the hedge fund run by Massimiliano’s father, Giovanni (Fabrizio Gifuni), by mortgaging his house and business, neglecting to tell his pregnant wife (Valeria Golino). Meanwhile, Giovanni’s wife (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Best Actress, 2014 Tribeca Film Festival), a former actress, invests her husband’s money to rescue an historic theater, becoming involved with artistic director Donato (Luigi Lo Cascio). All these interconnections form a web in which the characters soon find themselves caught.
DIR/SCR Paolo Virzì; SCR Francesco Bruni, Francesco Piccolo, from the novel by Stephen Amidon; PROD Marco Cohen, Benedetto Habib. Italy/France, 2013, color, 110 min. In Italian with English subtitles. NOT RATED
THE REFEREE [L’arbitro]
DATES: Sat, Dec 13, 10:30; Tue, Dec 16, 5:30; Thu, Dec 18, 9:30
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Paolo Zucca scores big laughs with this quirky and irreverent soccer comedy. Atletico Pabarile is the worst team in Italy’s worst division — the Sardinian third league. Their players are athletically suspect — untalented, overweight and/or underage — and their manager is blind. Their matches are sparsely attended, with goats often outnumbering people on the sidelines. Atletico’s fortunes pick up, however, with the return of native son Matzutzi, home after a stint playing in Argentina. They begin a winning streak that has even Montecrastu, the league champion and their hated rivals, on edge. As fate would have it, their big match will be refereed by Cruciani, exiled to the bush leagues after a corruption scandal derailed his FIFA World Cup career. Official Selection, 2013 Venice Film Festival, 2014 Karlovy Vary Film Festival.
DIR/SCR Paolo Zucca; SCR Barbara Alberti; PROD Amedeo Pagani. Italy/Argentina, 2014, b&w, 96 min. In Italian with English subtitles. NOT RATED
BLACK SOULS [Anime nere]
DATES: Thu, Dec 18, 7:20; Sat, Dec 20, 5:45
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Francesco Munzi’s mafia family drama follows the contours of a Greek tragedy. Bored with life in the rural hamlet of Africo Vecchio, teen Leo aspires to the flashier ways of his mafiosi Milanese uncles, disdaining his father, who, instead of pursuing criminal business, chose to look after the family farm and herd goats. After a childish prank by Leo reignites a decades-long feud between his family and a rival clan, tensions run high in all directions. “A measured, ethically resonant story of what violence and power do to families in places like Africo.” –Lee Marshall, Screen International. Official Selection, 2014 Venice, Toronto, London Film Festivals.
DIR/SCR Francesco Munzi; SCR Maurizio Braucci, Fabrizio Ruggirello from a novel by Gioacchino Criaco; PROD Luigi Musini, Olivia Musini. Italy/France, 2014, color, 103 min. In Italian with English subtitles. NOT RATED
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