Italian Film Festival
Italian Film Festival SUDestival in DC will open at the Embassy of Italy on September 19th. During this event there will be a presentation of six feature films and the screening of three shorts – with English subtitles.
The festival will reveal aspects of contemporary Italian reality through the lens of a talented new generation of filmmakers. With the participation of directors Fabio Mollo (Il sud è niente), Giuseppe Gigliorosso (Ore 18 in punto) and Gabriele Cecconi (Il seminarista).
SUDestival will continue on September 22nd at 6:30PM at George Washington University – Room 702 in the MELVIN GELMAN Library (2130 H Street NW. – 7 floor) – with a panel discussion on Italian and American cinema with film critics, scholars and exhibit curators. Open to the public. Photo ID required.
The Festival will conclude with the screening of the six feature films at West End Cinema on September 23, 24 and 25 followed by film directors Q&A sessions.
Following this second edition, Italian Film SUDestival in DC will become an annual event.
IN COLLABORATION WITH
AIFIC – American Initiative for Italian Culture – online: click here
West End Cinema – online: click here
RSVP – opening night
Please click on “Make a Reservation” by September 19, 2014 at 2 PM
Reservations are available until we reach
capacity or by the above date/time (whichever comes
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PHOTO ID REQUIRED
LOCATION
Embassy of Italy – Auditorium
3000 Whitehaven Street NW
Washington, DC 20008
Shorts screening @ Embassy of Italy
(SEPTEMBER 19 @ 6:30PM)
All shorts in Italian with English subtitles
Jennifer’s Law (La legge di Jennifer)
Jennifer is eight years-old and does not look like her parents. One day, in a class the teacher explains the theory of hereditary features, and her world collapses. Was she adopted? At home, she investigates and realizes that her parents do not look like her anymore because they have transformed their features through plastic surgery.
Comedy – Director : Alessandro Capitani – Italy 2012 – 11 min.
Carlo and Clara (Carlo e Clara)
To overcome our fears often we end up to cling to the Science. In a society where everything is planned and built also the desires can be realized with the support of medicine. But we not must settle of only one life but we must desire “new life”. This is the way to continue to love without to believe in eternal life.
Comedy – Director: Giulio Mastromauro – Italy, 2013 – 10 min.
Winner Premio Donatello web 2014
The Princess of Oriental Dance
KAMELLIA (Japanese, Korean origin) is one of the greatest belly dancers of the world. In the Arabic countries she is especially esteemed for her high artistic qualities, and she’s known as “The Princess of Oriental Dance”. Now that she is going to turn 60, she will tell us her story, unveiling connection between dance and femininity. And it’s amazing how she still can enchant us with her words, smiles, dance…
Documentary – Director: Samantha Cito – Simona Cocozza – Italy, 2009 – 13 min.
Winner of the 1° prize at Playing Female competition at SGUARDI ALTROVE FILM FESTIVAL, Milan 2009
SUDestival screenings @ West End Cinema
(SEPTEMBER 23 – 25)
All films in Italian with English subtitles
SEPTEMBER 23 @ 6:40PM – Il Sud è Niente (South is nothing)
Director: Fabio Mollo
Grazia (Miriam Karlkvist) is seventeen years-old and lives in Reggio Calabria. When she was little, her brother Pietro (Giorgio Musumeci) emigrated in Germany and never came back. Her father, Cristiano (Vinicio Marchioni), told her that the brother is dead and does not want to talk about him. One night, after a disagreement with the father, Grazia thinks she saw her brother on the beach and decides to look for him. At the same time, Cristiano gets a visit from the local Mafioso boss, who demands his house and his business.
Post-screening Q & A with director Fabio Mollo.
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SEPTEMBER 23 @ 8:40PM – Song ‘e Napule (I’m from Naples)
Director: Manetti Bros
Paco (Allessandro Roja) is a refined, unemployed pianist, whose mother gets him a recommendation to enter the police corps. As a result of his total ineptitude, he is relegated to a judicial unit, until Commissioner Cammarota (Paolo Sassanelli) assigns him as a pianist to the group led by Lollo Love (Giampaolo Morelli). This popular singer has been hired to perform at the wedding of the daughter of the Somma Vesuviana boss, where the dangerous Camorra killer, O’ Fantasma, is expected to be present. Paco, undercover, risks his life while playing music that he hates. But his life will take a turn…
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SEPTEMBER 24 @ 6:40PM – Ore 18 in Punto (At precisely six o’clock)
Director: Giuseppe Gigliorosso
A dusty office out of Time holds the files containing the most significant events that will mark the life of human beings. Paride has been working there for more than three thousand years. At six o’clock on a rainy afternoon, Paride has an appointment with Nicola, a homeless man defeated and disillusioned. At the time of the appointment, at precisely 6 o’clock, however, a series of events upset their lives and those of many others. None of the events could be prevented and the certainties of this office crumble miserably. The beauty of life and its variations through love, friendship, powerful ideas, the joy of living, can be more powerful than fate. Destiny is not written in the stars, but it is built inside each of us because humans, regardless of how things evolve, “always” have choices.
Post-screening Q & A with director Giuseppe Gigliorosso.
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SEPTEMBER 24 @ 8:40PM – Il Seminarista (The Seminarian)
Director: Gabriele Cecconi
Italy 1959, Guido as a kid dreams of becoming a priest, and enters the Minor Catholic Seminary. Soon he realizes that to be a good seminarian one must submit to a rigid education and an inflexible hierarchical system, which demands obedience to regulations and authorities. They teach him a religious practice of rituals and prayers which prevails over solidarity, for him the most important of the commandments. Facing a reality different from the one he had imagined, which hides immoral behavior in order to save the reputation of the institution, he makes an important life choice.
Post-screening Q & A with director Gabriele Cecconi.
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SEPTEMBER 25 @ 6:40PM – The Litium Conspiracy
Director: Davide Marengo
A taut thriller in the John Grisham tradition, The Lithium Conspiracy is set against a shadowy world of intrigue and corruption. Giulio (Guido Caprino) is a lawyer dealing with the fallout from a company merger as well as attempting to reunite with his estranged family. One day he finds himself aboard a plane to the South American Republic of Queimada on a mysterious mission with his new, sexy superior Cecilia (Carolina Crescentini). When he questions the mission, he is told ‘the less you know the better’.
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SEPTEMBER 25 @ 8:30PM – Se Chiudo gli Occhi non Sono Più Qui
(If I close my eyes I’m no longer here)
Director: Vittorio Moroni
Sixteen year-old Kiko (Mark Manaloto) lost his Italian father in an accident and lives with his Filipino mother, Marilou, and Ennio (Giuseppe Fiorello), the mother’s companion who exploits illegal immigrants. Every day after school, Kiko is forced to work at Ennio’s construction site. He feels he is living on the wrong planet. But there is place where is possible to daydream: an old, abandoned bus which the boy has made his refuge. One day Ettore (Giorgio Colangeli), an old friend of his father, offers to change his destiny by becoming his mentor. However, this man hides a secret.
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