CINEFORUM WITH ITALIANS IN DC 2012
AN EVENT SERIES
JANUARY
18
BASILICATA COAST TO COAST
Italy, Rocco Papaleo, 2010, 93 minutes, Italian with Italian subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
A group of musicians walk across Basilicata from the Tyrhennian to the Ionian Sea. Their leader is Nicola, a math professor played by Papaleo, and their destination is the festival at Scanzano Jonico.
FEBRUARY
08
L’UOMO CHE VERRÀ (The Man Who Will Come)
Italy, Giorgio Diritti, 2009, 116 minutes, Italian with English subtitles.
Italy, 1943. Martina stopped talking when her infant brother died. Her mother is pregnant again and Martina lives waiting for her new brother to be born.
MARCH
08
NOI CREDEVAMO (We Believed)
Italy, Mario Martone, 2010, 165 minutes, Italian with Italian subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
The film tells the story of three guys in the Cilento: the patriotic Salvatore, Domenico, who believes in friendship and Angelo who believes in violence. Together they join the “Giovine Italia” movement and their lives start taking different paths which retrace some of the historical moments of the Italian Risorgimento.
APRIL
10
MEDITERRANEO
Italy, Gabriele Salvatores, 1991, 89 minutes, Italian with English subtitles.
It’s 1941, eight Italian soldiers land on a small island in the Aegean Sea with the task of establishing an Italian fort. The island appears deserted, abandoned by the population of Greece, which has suffered from the previous German occupation.
MAY
09
LA PRIMA COSA BELLA (The First Beautiful Thing)
Italy, Paolo Virzì, 2010, 118 min., Italian with English subtitles.
Summer 1971. The beauty pageant of Miss Pancaldi, is the highlight of the summer season in Livorno. The election of Anna as the “most beautiful mother” brings trouble to the Michelucci’s family.
JUNE
13
VINCERE
Italy, Marco Bellocchio, 2009, 124 min., Italian with English subtitles.
The story revolves around Benito Albino Dalser, son of the dictator Benito Mussolini, and Ida Irene Dalsen.
The film traces the tormented love between Mussolini and Ida from the day they met each other to the day their son ends up in a madhouse.
JULY
11
AMARCORD
Italy, Federico Fellini, 1973, 125 min., Italian with English subtitles.
Federico Fellini’s film combines the free form and make-believe splendor with the comic, bittersweet feeling for character and narrative we remember from some of his best films of the 1950s.
AUGUST
15
AMICI MIEI (My Friends)
Italy, Mario Monicelli, 1975, 130 min., Italian Italian subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
Necchi, Perozzi, Melandri and Mascetti live in Florence. They have been friends since their youngest years and spend every free moment together organizing complex and terrible jokes to all the people they meet, or just wandering around Tuscany.
SEPTEMBER
12
LA KRYPTONITE NELLA BORSA
Italy, Ivan Cotroneo, 2001, 116 min., Italian with English subtitles.
A large, colorful Neapolitan family in the early 1970s experience the decade’s radical social changes in microcosm in Ivan Cotroneo’s uneven helming debut, “Kryptonite!”
OCTOBER
23
DIECI INVERNI (Ten Winters)
Italy, Russia, Valerio Mieli, 2009, 96 min., Italian and Russian with English subtitles.
Born of a chance meeting in Venice, Silvestro and Camilla’s rocky romance unfolds over 10 winters as new lovers come and go but they are eternally thrust back into one another’s arms.
NOVEMBER
14
TERRAFERMA
Italy, France, Emanuele Crialese, 2011, 88 min., Italian, Sicilian, Amharic with English subtitles.
While fishing in the sea near their home island of Linosa, Sicily, aging fisherman Ernesto and his 20-year-old grandson Filippo spot a dinghy packed to the gills with illegal immigrants in transit from North Africa.
DECEMBER
18
NUOVO CINEMA PARADISO
Italy, France, Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988, 155 min., Italian, English with English subtitles.
A famous film director remembers his childhood at the Cinema Paradiso where Alfredo, the projectionist, first brought about his love of films.
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