March 21 – 24, 2025
The first edition of the Richmond Italian Film Festival starts on March 21 and runs through March 24. The festival, curated by Professor Luca Peretti, Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Richmond, showcases some of the best Italian films of the last two years and a rediscovered film from the heyday of Italian cinema.
Several guests introduce the films and participate in round-table discussions.
The festival is hosted by the Department of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures and by the Film Studies Program, at the University of Richmond.
Sponsors include the Cultural Affairs Committee, A&S Dean’s Office, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Office of International Education, the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement and the Boatwright Memorial Library, at the University of Richmond.
For more information about the festival, please visit the Richmond Italian Film Festival’s web page.
VARIOUS LOCATIONS IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC – NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Luca Peretti is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Richmond. He wrote Un dio nero un diavolo bianco. Storia di un film non fatto tra Algeria, Eni, Solinas e Sartre (Marsilio, 2023) and co-edited volumes on terrorism and cinema (Postmedia books, 2014), Pier Pasolini Pasolini (Bloomsbury Academics, 2018), on Italian cinema and Algeria (AAMOD, 2022), and on Italian cinema and the former Portoguese colonies (AAMOD, 2024). His work has appeared in, among others, Film History, Senses of Cinema, The Italianist, Interventions, Annali d’Italianistica, Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, Historical Materialism, Comunicazioni Sociali, L’Avventura, He is the editor-in-chief of Cinema e Storia. He wrote and co-produced the film Mister Wonderland (dir. Valerio Ciriaci, 2019) and collaborates with newspapers and magazines. He has organized and programmed film festivals and retrospectives since 2005.