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Italian Film Festival · 2015

Italian Film Festival 2015

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Darker Than Midnight (Più Buio Di Mezzanotte)

A feminine boy who can't fit in at home finds new friends among the outcasts in the city park, but his double life threatens to tear him in two.

(Country: Italy; Year: 2014; Director: Sebastiano Riso; Writer: Sebastiano Riso, Stefano Grasso; Stars: Vincenzo Amato, Micaela Ramazzotti, Pippo Delbono, Lucia Sardo, Fabio Grossi)

The Dinner (I nostri ragazzi)

Tensions between two brothers and their families are stretched to breaking point over a death.

(Country: Italy; Year: 2014; Director: Ivano De Matteo; Writer: Valentina Ferlan, Ivano De Matteo, based on the novel by Herman Koch; Stars: Alessandro Gassman, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Luigi Lo Cascio, Barbora Bobulova, Rosabell Laurenti Sellers, Jacopo Olmo Antinori, Lidia Vitale, Antonio Salines, Roberto Accornero, Giada Fradeani, Cristina Puccinelli, Lupo De Matteo, Adamo Dionisi, Sharon Alessandri, Antonio Grosso)

First Snowfall (La prima neve)

An African refuge forms a bond with the grandson of his employer.

(Country: Italy; Year: 2013; Director: Andrea Segre; Writer: Andrea Segre, Andrea Segre, Marco Pettenello; Stars: Matteo Marchel, Jean-Christophe Folly, Anita Caprioli, Giuseppe Battiston, Peter Mitterrutzner, Paolo Pierobon, Sadia Afzal, Leonardo Paoli, Lorenzo Pintarelli, Roberto Citran, Andrea Pennacchi)

Good For Nothing (Buoni A Nulla)

A man on the verge of retirement discovers a legal change means he has to work for three more years. He is determined to avoid having to do a full day's work.

(Country: Italy; Year: 2014; Director: Gianni Di Gregorio; Stars: Gianni Di Gregorio, Marco Marzocca, Valentina Lodovini)

Greenery Will Bloom Again (Torneranno i prati)

Troops on the Italian Front prepare to make the final sacrifice.

(Country: Italy; Year: 2014; Director: Ermanno Olmi; Writer: Ermanno Olmi; Stars: Claudio Santamaria, Camillo Grassi, Niccolò Senni, Andrea Di Maria, Francesco Formichetti, Andrea Benetti, Domenico Benetti, Alessandro Sperduti, Andrea Frigo, Riccardo Rossi, Stefano Rossi, Marco Rigoni, Nicola Rigoni, Maurizio Frigo, Degiampietro)

Happy To Be Different (Felice chi è diverso)

An older gay couple talk about their long-term relationship.

(Country: Italy; Year: 2014; Director: Gianni Amelio; Stars: Glauco Bettera, Giorgio Bongiovanni, Mosè Bottazzi, Nicola Calì, Ciro Cascina, Francesco Cocola, Roberto David, Ninetto Davoli, John Francis Lane, Corrado Levi, Pieralberto Marchesini, Alba Montori, Claudio Mori, Fernando Nigiro, Roberto Pagliero)

Illustrious Corpses (Cadaveri eccellenti)

When a district attorney is murdered in Palermo a dogged detective is assigned to the case.

(Country: Italy, France; Year: 1976; Director: Francesco Rosi; Writer: Francesco Rosi, Tonino Guerra, Lino Iannuzzi, Leonardo Sciascia; Stars: Lino Ventura, Tino Carraro, Marcel Bozzuffi, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Maria Carta, Luigi Pistilli, Tina Aumont, Renato Salvatori, Paolo Graziosi, Anna Proclemer, Fernando Rey, Max von Sydow, Charles Vanel, Carlo Tamberlani)

I Can Quit Whenever I Want

Review preview for I Can Quit Whenever I Want

A fast paced, witty comedy that sweetens its bitter social comment with an optimistic outlook.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A bunch of broke academics decide to enter the drug manufacture and dealing business.

(Country: Italy; Year: 2014; Director: Sydney Sibilia; Writer: Valerio Attanasio, Andrea Garello, Sydney Sibilia; Stars: Edoardo Leo, Valeria Solarino, Valerio Aprea, Paolo Calabresi, Libero De Rienzo, Stefano Fresi, Lorenzo Lavia, Pietro Sermonti, Sergio Solli, Majlinda Agaj, Neri Marcorè, Guglielmo Poggi, Katsiaryna Shulha, Nadir Caselli, Luca Vecchi)

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Leopardi (Il giovane favoloso)

Period biopic of legendary Italian 19th century poet Giacomo Leopardi.

(Country: Italy; Year: 2014; Director: Mario Martone; Writer: Mario Martone, Ippolita Di Majo; Stars: Elio Germano, Michele Riondino, Massimo Popolizio, Anna Mouglalis, Valerio Binasco, Paolo Graziosi, Iaia Forte, Sandro Lombardi, Raffaella Giordano, Edoardo Natoli, Federica De Cola, Isabella Ragonese, Giovanni Ludeno, Giorgia Salari, Gloria Ghergo)

The Mafia Kills Only In Summer (La mafia uccide solo d'estate)

Young Arturo believes in those who deride the Mafia’s activities in his native Palermo, yet he gradually abandons his naïve faith in the rectitude of certain politicians.

(Country: Italy; Year: 2013; Director: Pif; Writer: Michele Astori, Pif, Marco Martani; Stars: Cristiana Capotondi, Pif, Alex Bisconti, Ginevra Antona, Claudio Gioè, Barbara Tabita, Rosario Lisma, Enzo Salomone, Maurizio Marchetti, Antonio Alveario, Antonino Bruschetta, Salvatore Borghese, Domenico Centamore)

The Mattei Affair (Il caso Mattei)

Francesco Rosi’s Palme d’Or-winning bio-pic stars the great Gian Maria Volonté as Enrico Mattei, the Italian businessman who sought to develop the country’s energy efficiency before dying under mysterious circumstances in 1962.

(Country: Italy; Year: 1972; Director: Francesco Rosi; Writer: Tito Di Stefano, Tonino Guerra, Tonino Guerra, Nerio Minuzzo, Francesco Rosi; Stars: Gian Maria Volonté, Luigi Squarzina, Gianfranco Ombuen, Edda Ferronao, Accursio Di Leo, Giuseppe Lo Presti, Aldo Barberito, Dario Michaelis, Peter Baldwin, Franco Graziosi, Elio Jotta, Luciano Colitti, Terenzio Cordova, Camillo Milli, Jean Rougeul)

Quiet Bliss (In grazia di dio)

When a family's textile business fails, they are forced to return to the family olive grove.

(Country: Italy; Year: 2014; Director: Edoardo Winspeare; Writer: Anna Boccadamo, Alessandro Valenti, Edoardo Winspeare; Stars: Celeste Casciaro, Laura Licchetta, Anna Boccadamo, Barbara De Matteis, Gustavo Caputo, Angelico Ferrarese, Amerigo Russo, Antonio Carluccio)

Zoran, My Nephew The Idiot (Zoran, il mio nipote scemo)

When his aunt dies, an unreliable misanthrope is left looking after his shy teenage nephew with a talent for darts.

(Country: Italy, Slovenia; Year: 2013; Director: Matteo Oleotto; Writer: Daniela Gambaro, Matteo Oleotto, Marco Pettenello, Pier Paolo Piciarelli; Stars: Giuseppe Battiston, Teco Celio, Rok Prasnikar, Roberto Citran, Marjuta Slamic, Peter Musevski, Riccardo Maranzana, Ivo Barisic, Jan Cvitkovic, Maurizio Fanin, Mirela Kovacevic, Ariella Reggio, Rossana Mortara, Doina Komissarov, Sylvain Chomet)