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Fare Cinema 2018 – Italian Film Festival

On the occasion of “Fare Cinema – Italian Film Festival” the Italian Institute of Culture is proud the present Scotland’s annual showcase of the best in Italian cinema with an exciting, wide-ranging selection from the past twelve months. Italian Film Festival includes new work from several generations of filmmakers, including established auteurs such as Paolo and Vittorio Taviani and Abel Ferrara as well as young talents such as Roberto De Paolis and Jonas Carpignano. Moving from Sicily to rural Tuscany, from inner-city Rome to Calabria, the programme explores the landscape of il bel paese in all its diversity. We will also pay tribute to Totò and Anna Magnani, two of the giants of Italian cinema with a very special screening of Mario Monicelli’s 1960 comedy “Risate di Gioia”, recently restored by Cineteca di Bologna. The Italian Film Festival is programmed by Dr Pasquale Iannone, in partnership with the Italian Institute of Culture and Filmhouse.

 

 Sicilian Ghost Story by Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza

Directors Antonio Piazza and Fabio Grassadonia follow up their formally dazzling 2013 debut – hitman thriller Salvo – with an adaptation of a Marco Mancassola short story, itself based on true events. It tells of the mysterious disappearance of 13-year old Giuseppe (Gaetano Fernandez), the son of a local mafioso. With unmistakable echoes of the films of Guillermo Del Toro, Sicilian Ghost Story features the fairy-tale like cinematography of Luca Bigazzi (Il Divo, The Great Beauty).

Edinburgh Filmhouse, Thu 24 May, 14.30 / 20.30. The 20.30 

Belmont Filmhouse, Thu 24 May, 18.00 

Glasgow Film Theatre, Sun 27 May, 19.20

Dundee Contemporary Arts, Fri 1 June, 18.00

 

Equilibrium (L’Equilibrio) by Vincenzo Marra

Writer-director Vincenzo Marra (Sailing Home, The Trial Begins) had long been interested in making a documentary on the work of anti-mafia priests in his native Campania but found that the story was best told in fiction form. The director’s lean, fittingly stark fourth feature sees Giuseppe (Mimmo Borelli) return to his hometown to replace fellow priest Antonio (Roberto Del Gaudio). Once he finds out about the impact of organised crime on the local community, Giuseppe cannot help but intervene.

Edinburgh Filmhouse, Fri 25 May, 20.25

Belmont Filmhouse, Fri 25 May, 20.40 

Glasgow Film Theatre, Fri 25 May, 18.05

Dundee Contemporary Arts, Sat 26 May, 20.15

 

Fortunata by Sergio Castellito

Built around a powerhouse, multi-award-winning central performance by Jasmine Trinca (The Best of Youth), Fortunata is the latest collaboration between writer-director husband and wife team Margaret Mazzantini and Sergio Castellito. Trinca plays a straight-talking single mother who plans to open her own hair salon in Rome. Both Trinca and Castellito have spoken of Anna Magnani’s character in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Mamma Roma as a key influence and the film also features a memorable performance from Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s muse Hanna Schygulla.

Edinburgh Filmhouse, Sat 26 May, 18.15

Belmont Filmhouse, Sat 26 May, 18.00 

Glasgow Film, Mon 28 May, 20.15

 

Pure Hearts (Cuori Puri) by Roberto De Paolis

After her strict Catholic mother confiscates her phone, seventeen-year-old Agnese (Selene Caramazza) steals another one, only to be apprehended by young security guard Stefano (Simone Liberati).
Rather than turn Agnese in, Stefano lets her go. They go their separate ways, but soon their paths cross once more and a strong attraction develops. In the best tradition of Italian humanist cinema, Roberto De Paolis’ unassuming Rome-set romantic drama was one of the strongest European debuts of 2017.

Glasgow Film Theatre, Sat 26 May, 20.15

Edinburgh Filmhouse, Sun 27 May, 20.35

Belmont Filmhouse, Mon 28 May, 20.40 

 

The Passionate Thief (Risate di Gioia) by Mario Monicelli

Screened to mark the 120th and 110th birthdays of two undisputed icons of 20th century Italian culture, Risate di Gioia unites Neapolitan comic actor Totò and Roman acting legend Anna Magnani in a fizzy comic caper set against the backdrop of New Year celebrations in the Italian capital. Director Mario Monicelli (I soliti ignoti) shot the film over the course of forty nights between May and July 1960, and it also features an early role for John Cassavetes regular Ben Gazzara.

Glasgow Film Theatre, Sun 27 May, 16.30

Edinburgh Filmhouse, Mon 28 May, 18.15. 

Belmont Filmhouse, Tue 29 May, 20.40 

Dundee Contemporary Arts, Wed 30 May, 18.00

 

The Intruder (L’Intrusa) by Leonardo Di Costanzo

Leonardo Di Costanzo’s second fiction film was described by critic Claudia Catalli as ‘the most topical Italian film currently in circulation’ and was a success at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. In only her second major film role, distinguished dancer and choreographer Raffaella Giordano plays Giovanna, a middle-aged woman who runs an after-school club for children in an underprivileged area of Naples only to find her efforts hampered by local criminality.

Edinburgh Filmhuseouse, Tue 29 May, 20.45

Glasgow Film Theatre, Wed 30 May, 20.45

Dundee Contemporary Arts, Thu 31 May, 20.15

 

Stories of Love that Cannot Belong to the World (Amori che non sanno stare al Mondo) by Francesca Comencini

Filmmaking siblings Cristina and Francesca Comencini – daughters of celebrated Italian director Luigi – have long been active in both literature and cinema and both have adapted their own books for the big screen. The latest film from younger sister Francesca sees her adapt her own 2013 novel, a story inspired by her romantic relationships and those of her female friends. Lucia Mascino (recently seen in Netflix series Suburra) plays a middle-aged woman struggling to get over a break up.

Glasgow Film Theatre, Sun 27 May, 12.30

Edinburgh Filmhouse, Wed 30 May, 18.15

Dundee Contemporary Arts, Fri 25 May, 18.00

 

Piazza Vittorio by Abel Ferrara

Acclaimed Italian-American filmmaker Abel Ferrara (King of New York, Bad Lieutenant, Pasolini) has made a handful of eye-catching documentaries over the past decade, including two about his native New York (Chelsea on the Rocks and Mulberry Street) and one about the city of Naples (Napoli, Napoli, Napoli). With Piazza Vittorio, we find Ferrara back in Italy, this time to take in the sights and sounds of the eponymous square in Rome, famous for its ethnic diversity.

Glasgow Film Theatre, Mon 28 May, 15.35

Belmont Filmhouse, Wed 30 May, 20.40 

Edinburgh Filmhouse, Thu 31 May, 16.00/20.45. 

 

Lorello and Brunello (Lorello e Brunello) by Jacopo Quadri

Although best known as one of Italian cinema’s most prolific film editors of the past two decades – working with directors such as Bernardo Bertolucci (Besieged, The Dreamers, Me and You), Gianfranco Rosi (Sacro Gra, Fire and Sea) – Jacopo Quadri has recently carved out a career in documentaries. His most recent, Lorello and Brunello, is a meditative portrait of two middle-aged twin brothers and their struggle to make ends meet as farmers in the south of Tuscany.

Dundee Contemporary Arts, Mon 28 May, 18.00

Glasgow Film Theatre, Thu 31 May, 18.20

Edinburgh Filmhouse, Fri 1 June, 20.45

 

Rainbow: a Private Affair (Rainbow: Una Questione Privata) by Paolo Taviani

Thirty-five years after their 1982 masterpiece The Night of Shooting Stars, Tuscan filmmakers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani return to the subject of WWII with a characteristically intelligent adaptation of a 1963 novel by Beppe Fenoglio, one of Italy’s most important chroniclers of the anti-fascist resistance. Shot largely in Piedmont, the film tells of two partisans – Milton (Luca Marinelli) and Giorgio (Lorenzo Richelmy) – and their love for the same woman, Fulvia (Valentina Bellè).

Glasgow Film Theatre, Sat 26 May, 15.35

Dundee Contemporary Arts, Sun 27 May, 18.15

Belmont Filmhouse, Thu 31 May, 18.20 

Edinburgh Filmhouse, Sat 2 June, 18.15. 

 

Veleno by Diego Olivares

Writer-director Diego Olivares’ drama is the story of Cosimo and Rosaria (Massimiliano Gallo and Luisa Ranieri), a married couple whose family work as farmers on the so-called ‘land of fires’, an area in the Campania region used by the Camorra to illegally dispose of toxic waste. The film features a strong supporting turn from Salvatore Esposito, who recently shot to international fame for his starring role as young mob boss Genny Savastano in Gomorrah: The Series.

Belmont Filmhouse, Sun 27 May, 20.40

Glasgow Film Theatre, Tue 29 May, 17.50

Edinburgh Filmhouse, Sun 3 June, 20.15. 

 

The Ciambra (A Ciambra) by Jonas Carpignano

The outskirts of Gioia Tauro, a coastal town in the southern Italian region of Reggio Calabria is the setting for Jonas Carpignano’s second feature, the middle film of a planned trilogy which began with 2015’s Mediterranea. Romani teenager Pio (Pio Amato), one of the supporting characters in the first picture takes centre stage in a riveting coming-of-age story. Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, A Ciambra won Best Director and Best Editor awards at the 2018 David di Donatello (Italy’s equivalent of the Academy Awards).

Glasgow Film Theatre, Thu 31 May, 20.10

Belmont Filmhouse, Fri 1 June, 18.10 

Dundee Contemporary Arts, Sat 2 June, 18.00

Edinburgh Filmhouse, Mon 4 June, Fri 15 June, Sat 16 June, Sun 17 June at 14.30/20.35

 

For further information and tickets please refer to:

www.filmhousecinema.com

www.gft.org.uk 

www.dca.org.uk

www.belmontfilmhouse.com

 

 

  • Organizzato da: Italian Institut of Culture and Filmhouse
  • In collaborazione con: Glasgow Film Theatre, DCA Dundee Contemporary Arts and Belmont