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Festival 17 JUNE 2021 20 STARTS 21 13 JANUARY 2022 FINISHES No.6 ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL TWENTY FILMS NAMING SPONSOR 6 No. Our sponsors / Contenuto / Our sponsors Contents Benvenuti / 03 Welcome Naming Sponsor Naming Luoghi / 04 Locations Cinema / 06 Films Programma / Official Cultural Partners Cultural Official 36 Schedule Classificazione / 60 Classification Proudly Supported by Supported Proudly Io Sono L'Amore / Amici I am Love 3 / Benvenuti / Welcome Benvenuti / Welcome Francesco Calogero, Dream now travel later... that cinema possesses as an Ambassador of Italy – This year I have chosen art form. We celebrate both the art form of ‘Opera’ and The Italian Embassy is proud films and Directors I personally two of its most important to support once again Cinema love. Audiences will experience exponents. The story of Italiano Festival, the biggest the Golden Age of Italian Andrea Boccelli in The Music Italian cultural event in Cinema in Vittorio De Sica’s of Silence and the documentary Aotearoa. This year Renee and collaborations with Sophia about the inimitable tenor Paolo Rotondo have outdone Loren. In La Ciociara and Luciano Pavarotti. themselves securing twenty Marriage Italian Style with cinema venues nationwide and a co-star Marcello Mastroianni, You will be moved, amused, great selection of Italian movies. Sophia Loren truly shines. challenged, inspired and entertained in a uniquely Thanks Renee and Paolo Luchino Visconti’s ‘The Leopard’ Italian way. for offering seven months offers the kind of beauty, scale of great entertainment and and refinement that makes it In 2021 we are honoured to showcasing our country here worthy of its’ ‘Masterpiece’ collaborate with prestigious in New Zealand. I look forward status. One can also feel his Italian Institutions - Embassy to celebrating the great Italian influence in Luca Guadagnino’s of Italy in Wellington, L’Istituto Cinema with all the Italian contemporary, I am Love. Italiano di Cultura in Sydney culture lovers in Aotearoa. Matteo Garrone’s gothic, noir and the Italian National version of Pinocchio with Tourist Board. Buona visione a tutti voi! Roberto Benigni as Geppetto, I acknowledge the challenges Ambassador Francesco Calogero tackles Italy’s most famous Italy continues to experience fairy tale. The result is a work due to Covid-19. I know all of A message from the of breathtaking visual beauty. us from the Italian community Artistic Director – As a counterpoint to reveal in Aotearoa have felt for Garrone’s versatility, I have Collaborating with Italy our friends and family. We programmed Garrone’s Cannes and many international appreciate the solidarity shown Grand Prix-winning film Reality. companies, I am reminded by so many New Zealanders, The calibre of contemporary that sharing Cinema together Grazie. Directors, includes Ferzan is a tremendous privilege. Italia, non sei mai lontana Ozpetek, with his moving dal cuore. In 2020, The Cinema Italiano and entertaining visual feast, Festival was resilient and nimble The Goddess of Fortune, our Buona visione – Paolo enough to reschedule our entire Opening night film presented year. We demonstrated our by our Naming Sponsor facebook – commitment to cinemas and ‘Studio Italia’. The octogenarian cinemaitalianofestivalnz the ‘cinema experience’. Director, Marco Bellocchio’s instagram / @italianfilmfestivalnz In 2021 we now travel to 20 The Traitor, chronicles the epic cinemas nationwide with an true story of the first Mafia #italianfilmsnz eclectic curation of Italian turncoat’s maxi-trial. The art- #cinemaitalianonz Cinema that will make us house masterpiece Martin Eden #studioitaliacinemaitaliano dream of Italy once more. by Pietro Marcello reminds us Paolo Rotondo – Artistic Director of the imaginative possibilities WWW.EDIT-STORE.COM 4 / Luoghi / Locations Luoghi / Locations Govett Brewster / Globe Theatrette / Napier Suter Theatre / Nelson New Plymouth July 29 - August 5 August 20 - September 5 June 17 - 27 15 Hardinge Rd Queens Gardens The Len Lye Centre Cinema Ahuriri, Napier 4110 208 Bridge St 42 Queen Street 06 833 6011 Nelson 7010 New Plymouth 4310 globenapier.co.nz 03 548 3885 06 759 6060 suter.statecinemas.co.nz govett-brewster.com/cinema Event Cinemas / Havelock Nth July 30 - August 11 Whakamax / Whakatane Rialto Cinemas / Dunedin 11 Joll Rd September 2 - 9 June 18 - 23 Havelock North 4130 99 The Strand 11 Moray Place 06 877 9016 Whakatane 3120 Dunedin 9016 eventcinemas.co.nz/cinema/ 07 308 7625 03 474 2200 havelock-north whakamax.co.nz rialto.co.nz /cinema/dunedin Event Cinemas / Matakana Cinemas / Bridgeway Cinema / Palmerston North Matakana Auckland August 4 - 11 September 6 - 14 June 22 - July 6 70 Broadway Avenue 2 Matakana Valley Rd 122 Queen St Palmerston North 4410 Matakana 0985 Northcote Point 06 355 5335 09 423 0218 Auckland 0627 eventcinemas.co.nz/cinema/ matakanacinemas.co.nz 09 481 0040 palmerston-north bridgeway.co.nz Starlight Cinema / Taupo The Screening Room / September 15 -22 Silky Otter Cinemas / Masterton Starlight Arcade Auckland August 5- 15 26 Horomatangi Street June 23 - July 7 435 Queen Street Taupo 228 Orakei Road, Orakei, Masterton 5810 07 377 1085 Auckland 1071 06 378 6191 starlightcinema.co.nz 09 523 0400 thescreeningroom.co.nz silkyotter.co.nz Dorothy Browns / Event Cinemas / Blenheim Arrowtown Capitol Cinema /Auckland August 12 - 18 September 23 -29 June 24 - 30 4 Kinross Street, 18 Buckingham St 610 Dominion Rd, Balmoral, Blenheim 7201 Arrowtown 9302 Auckland 1041 03 577 8273 03 442 1964 09 623 2000 eventcinemas.co.nz/cinema/ dorothybrowns.com thecapitol.co.nz blenheim Rialto / Tauranga Waiheke Cinema /Waiheke Empire Cinema / Wellington October 15 - 29 June 25 - 29 August 13 - 27 21 Devonport Rd 127-129 Oceanview Rd 214 The Parade Tauranga 3110 Oneroa Island Bay 07 577 0445 Wellington 6023 Auckland 1081 rialtotauranga.co.nz 09 372 4240 04 939 7557 waihekecinema.co.nz empirecinema.nz 2022 Monterey Cinemas / Lumiere Cinema / Takapuna Christchurch Waiheke Cinema / Waiheke July 9 - 11 August 18 - 31 January 6 - 13 32-34 Anzac Street The Christchurch Arts Centre 127-129 Oceanview Rd Takapuna 26 Rolleston Avenue Oneroa Auckland 0622 Christchurch 8013 Auckland 1081 09 488 6000 03 365 0066 09 372 4240 montereytakapuna.co.nz lumierecinemas.co.nz waihekecinema.co.nz VITA CON STILE 6 / La Dea Fortuna / The Goddess of Fortune La Dea Fortuna / M The Goddess of Fortune Director / Director, Ferzan Özpetek is a completely unexpected layers. Ferzan Özpetek prolific and celebrated filmmaker Under Özpetek’s brave and that possesses the rare skill of disarming direction, the colourful Cast / Stefano Accorsi, being an accomplished visual cast is nothing short of superb. Edoardo Leo, craftsman while telling deeply These are big names in Italian Jasmine Trinca, humanistic stories. The Goddess of cinema, taking risks and working Barbara Alberti Fortune is filled with warmth, gentle at the peak of their powers. humour, and heartfelt drama. It is I expected the multi-award-winning Country / fresh and contemporary in style Stefano Accorsi and Jasmine Trinca Italy, 2019 and thematics, yet at the same to deliver, but a real stand out for Genre / time, it harks back to a brilliant me is Edoardo Leo, who is usually Drama tradition of Italian romantic films, lauded for his comedic skills. I am with all the joys, passion, trials and proud to programme this film for Duration / tribulations of real love. The love our Opening Night with its glorious 118mins story at the centre of the story depictions of Rome and Palermo Language / is so realistic and thoughtfully meeting storytelling and acting of Italian with evoked that, at times, it felt like it the highest order. English subtitles should be private. Levity and, at Paolo Rotondo times, achingly beautiful drama Presented by / mix together effortlessly in a Studio Italia sophisticated modern tale. Awards / Premi It is the story of a couple whose Winner / Best Actress, Best Song, lives are turned upside down David di Donatello Awards when they must take care of a sick Winner / Best Actors Stefano Accorsi friend’s children. This seemingly and Edoardo Leo. Best Film, Best simple set up is never treated Song, Golden Ciak Awards 2020 superficially, and therefore all the humour and drama reveals 8 / Reality / Reality 9 / Pinocchio / Pinocchio M Reality M Pinocchio Director / After winning acclaim with his is a brilliant critique. I imagine Director / Carlo Collodi’s 1883 book The possesses some of the most Matteo Garrone crime film Gomorra, Director Garrone is lamenting the trashy Matteo Garrone Adventures of Pinocchio is probably beautiful sets and costume design Matteo Garrone seemed to want commercialisation of Italian Italy’s favourite fairy tale. Like all you are likely to see this year in a Cast / Cast / Aniello Arena, to prove that he was a real force television and its effect on Italian Roberto Benigni, good fairy tales, it is not just for contemporary film. By the time you Loredana Simioli, in contemporary Italian Cinema. society. For us, the audience, Federico Ielapi, children. Director Matteo Garrone read this, it may have won 2 Oscars Claudia Gerini, This year we have programmed it is a colourful riot of fun. Rocco Papaleo, has demonstrated considerable for Costume and Make-up. The Paola Minaccioni, two Garrone films; Reality and The visual flair, flamboyance and Massimo Ceccherini, courage with the films he has inherent aesthetics of Garrone’s film Ciro Petrone, the recent Pinocchio. These films sheer spectacle remind me of Marine Vacth, made. I first discovered his