Director: Marco Filiberti.
Cast: Alessandro Gassman, Maria de Medeiros, Massimo Poggio, Michela Cescon, Christo Jivkov.
U.S. Premiere!
A group of friends are happy to rent a beautiful beach house so they can spend summertime together. But the sudden arrival of young David, son of one the couples, leads to an unexplained growing tensions in the house. The only one who seems to understand what’s causing this anxiety is Leonard, the enigmatic uncle. A summer vacation gone awry, that will change everyone’s life forever.
Director: Francesca Archibugi. Cast: Kim Rossi Stuart, Antonio Albanese.
Los Angeles Premiere!
Angelo and Alberto have nothing in common. Angelo is the typical family man, married with children, running his own business (a garage); Alberto is a screenwriter, a man of abstract ideas, a loner unable to fully commit to his girlfriend. A heart attack brings both men face to face with mortality: and it’s here, in the hospital’s room they share, that they meet each other. The two men become close friends against all odds and differences. They end up learning a lot from each other It’s the story of a special friendship and the things that really matter in life, told with a light touch and keen humour. The Italian National Film Critics Circle nominated “Questione di cuore” for five Nastri d’Argento Awards, including Best Director, Screenplay and Actor.
Director: Marco Spagnoli.
This highly entertaining documentary uses archival footage and old images, provided by Archivio Luce (Cinecittà Luce), to bring back stories, anecdotes, curiosities and interesting news from a great period in Italian cinema, the ’50s and ‘60s, when Rome and its Cinecittà Film Studio became to be known as “Hollywood in Europe.” Twenty exciting years, when Hollywood classics such A Roman Holiday, Ben Hur and Cleopatra were filmed in Italy and theirs famous stars were having fun in Rome, Amalfi or Venice for its International Film Festival. The beautifully restored footage captures the stars of that Golden Years as they attended film premieres, award ceremonies, working on the Cinecitta’ sets or just carousing around Italy.
Director: Gianluca Petrazzi.
Cast: Jane Alexander, Raul Bova, Valerio Mastandrea.
U.S. Premiere!
A man (Raoul Bova) is wrongly accused of murder and will face the electric chair. Many things can be said against death penalty in just a few minutes of film. The short has been made with the Patronage of the European Parliament and it was presented to the Parliament’s full session on occasion of the first “European Day Against Death Penalty: October 18th."
15 SECONDS talks about all the executions in the world and intersects its narrative with a series of observations by various Italian actors and politicians who offers candid point of views about this controversial subject. The film is produced by Sanmarco, the production company of Italian star Raoul Bova and his wife Chiara Giordano, both fully committed to the issue of the abolition of the death sentence.
Director: Michele Placido.
Cast: Riccardo Scamarcio, Jasmine Trinca, Luca Argentero, Laura Morante.
Taking place in 1968, a time when young men and women dreamed the dream of “changing the world”, when the rules set by the Establishment were broken and love was free, Nicola, a police officer from Puglia, goes undercover to spy on the leaders of the leftist student movement. There, at the university, he meets Laura, an idealist committed to the fight for a world free of injustice, and Libero, leader of the student “revolution”. A love triangle ensues: Laura, attracted to both men, has to make a choice.
THE BIG DREAM screens again on November 14 at the Aero Theatre at 9:30pm.
