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Stockholm 17 - 20 Okt. 2013 - Biografen Sture 3 Italienska Filmfestivalen 16:e Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Stoccolma “C.M. Lerici” and Federazione Italiana Circoli del Cinema present 16th Stockholm Italian Film Festival Stockholm 17 - 20 Oct. 2013 With contributions from: Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale Cinema In association with: Ambasciata d’Italia in Svezia F.I.C.C.- Centro Regionale Campania Associazione Culturale Blackout Pigrecoemme Scuola di cinema televisione fotografia di Napoli and Settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo Embassy of Switzerland in Sweden Festival Director: Vincenzo Esposito PR: Paolo Balzano Press: Diego Del Pozzo Administrative secretary: Maria Rosaria Vassallo Catalogue edited by Vincenzo Esposito Translations: Maria Rosaria Vassallo Graphic design: Corrado Morra for Pigrecoemme (www.pigrecoemme.com) Print: PGD - Calata Trinità Maggiore, 38/39 - 80134 Napoli (Italy) Thanks to: Ferrero Rocher Matric Italgross Salute Italienska Filmfestivalen 2 16:e The Italian Cultural Italian language abroad. the last two years, and Institute “C.M. Lerici” document the new is delighted to present The impressive selec- trends of Italian cinema the 16th annual Italian tion of this year’s films, today. Film Festival, taking featured in the Film place at the well-known Festival’s program, The Italian Institute of cinema Sture. bears witness to the Culture gives its vitality of Italian cine- warmest thanks the This Festival, which has ma, which in spite of FICC for organizing the become a traditional production difficulties Festival of Italian yearly event in the City fostered upon them by Cinema in Stockholm of Stockholm, forms the economic crisis of and looks forward in part of the initiatives recent years, has contin- seeing the films pre- promoted by the Italian ued to produce films sented, alongside a large Cultural Institute “C.M. that merit their place on audience as well! Lerici”, to celebrate the screen. week of the Italian lan- The films selected for guage. Italian cinema this Film Festival by Sergio Scapin continues to be an Vincenzo Esposito of Director important tool for the FICC are among the Italian Cultural Institute promotion of the most significant ones of “C.M. Lerici” Italienska Filmfestivalen 3 16:e What constitutes a national cine- Normally, no one at the end of which is part of the retrospective ma? Production, distribution, lan- the screening wonders whether dedicated to Michele Placido, was guage, setting, cultural context, these films are Italian or not. shot in French with French genre, or history? A national festi- There is “something” Italian that actors. This is what we need. This val, like the one I’m going to everyone can grasp. A national is what made European cinema introduce, should be able to film festival runs, first and fore- popular during the Sixties and the answer these questions, whether most, on the passion of the peo- Seventies. The last two years separately or all together. «The ple for their respective Country’s have seen a significant shift in the definition of national cinema» – “culture”. When I founded this way most of us now watch films, as Tiziana Regis points out – festival in 1998, there weren’t with the widespread switchover «starts to take form in relation to “national film festivals” in from viewing conventional film the methodology employed in its Sweden. Now, there are plenty of prints to digital ones (DCP), but analysis»1. Over the last 16 years, them (French, German, Russian, it will never change the way we our approach of selecting fea- Spanish, etc). It means that “feel” the movies. tures for the “Stockholm Italian Europeans want to see their own My most sincere thanks go to Film Festival” has always been films, to feel them as British, as Sergio Scapin, Director of the open-minded and multidiscipli- Portuguese, or as Italians… This Italian Institute of Culture in nary: we have shown Italian films desire has nothing to do with Stockholm, and Elena Basile, shot in the English language, such “nationalism”; on the contrary, it’s Ambassador of Italy to the as The Legend of 1900,by a matter of cultural connections Kingdom of Sweden. And, of Giuseppe Tornatore; or French between countries, of constant course, to the City of Stockholm, films directed by Italian filmmak- relationship and confrontation: my “home” away from home. ers (Il est plus facile pour un chameau, the worst enemies of chauvinism. As usual, I invite you to do the by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi); or, Of the films selected this year, following: Just relax and enjoy speaking of classics, features that some are deeply rooted in specific (Italian) movies! are fully linked to foreign cultural film traditions, such as and historical contexts, like La L’industriale, by Giuliano Vincenzo Esposito battaglia di Algeri, by Gillo Montaldo and Viva la liberta,by VP of The Italian Federation Pontecorvo. (I still remember that Roberto Andò. Some were not of Film Societies night as one of the best in the produced in Italy: Sinestesia, for Festival Director festival’s history. The majority of example, is a Swiss one. Il coman- the audience was composed of dante e la cicogna, by Silvio Soldini 1 Tiziana Ferrero-Regis, Recent Italian immigrants from Arab countries. and L’intervallo, by Leonardo di Cinema. Space Context Experiences, Gillo was a hero for them, and Costanzo, were also co-produced Troubadour Publishing Ltd, that was “their” film!). with Swiss Tv, and Il giocattolo, Leicester, Uk, 2009, p. XVI. Italienska Filmfestivalen 4 16:e THE ENTREPRENEUR Directed by: Giuliano Montaldo. Screenplay: Giuliano Montaldo, Andrea Purgatori. Cinematography: Arnaldo Catinari. Editing: Consuelo Catucci. Production: BiBi Film Tv, Rai Cinema, MiBAC, Film Commission Torino-Piemonte. Cast: Pierfrancesco Favino, Carolina Crescentini, Eduard Gabia, Francesco Scianna. Year: 2011. Film run: 95’. PANORAMA L’industriale Nicola (Pierfrancesco Favino), victim of the economic crisis, owns a factory that begins to fail and needs refinanc- ing. The banks refuse his loan request unless he gets his rich wife Laura (Carolina Crescentini) to co-sign. Nicola doesn’t want to: he is proud, refuses to give up, and has decided to solve his problems alone. Laura begins a friendship with garage attendant Gabriel (Eduard Gabia), though she refuses his advances. Nicola spies them to confirm his suspicions. He is floundering and it brings out his worst. But when the problems seem to get solved (the factory, his marriage, his social status), dirty secrets emerge again. Italienska Filmfestivalen 5 16:e THE COMMANDER AND THE STORK Directed by: Silvio Soldini. Screenplay: Doriana Leondeff, Marco Pettenello, Silvio Soldini. Cinematography: Ramiro Civita. Editing: Carlotta Cristiani. Production: Lumière & Co., Ventura Film, MiBAC, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera italiana, Film Commission Torino Piemonte e Valle d'Aosta. Cast: Alba Rohrwacher, Valerio Mastandrea, Giuseppe Battiston, Claudia Gerini, Luca Zingaretti. Year: 2012. Film run: 108’. PANORAMA Il comandante e la cicogna Bread and Tulips director Silvio Soldini returns to screen with his magic-real- istic touch in this new sophisticated comedy; where Leo (Valerio Mastandrea), a widowed plumber, struggles every day to raise his two chil- dren, and Diana (Alba Rohrwacher), a penniless artist waiting for the chance of her life, meet in the office of an arrogant lawyer. Leo is there to help his daughter who has been tagged as a porn star in the internet, while Diana, forced by econom- ic needs, is painting a wall. Their stories take place in an emblematic city, under the ironic gaze of the stat- ues who comment on the disaster of contemporary Italy, while Leo’s son fol- lows the flight of a stork, symbol of renaissance. Italienska Filmfestivalen 6 16:e THE INTERVAL Directed by: Leonardo Di Costanzo. Screenplay: Leonardo di Costanzo, Maurizio Braucci, Mariangela Barbanente. Cinematography: Luca Bigazzi. Editing: Carlotta Cristiani. Production: Tempesta Film, Amka Films Productions, Rai Cinema, MiBAC, in co-production with ZDF and ARTE RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera. Cast: Francesca Riso, Alessio Gallo, Carmine Paternoster, Salvatore Ruocco. Year: 2012. Film run: 90'. PANORAMA L’intervallo Veronica (Francesca Riso) is locked up in a huge abandoned and frightening building. Salvatore (Alessio Gallo) is forced by the local Camorra gang to play the gaoler. As time pass- es and the hood fails to appear, Veronica gradu- ally leaves her initial hostility towards Salvatore behind, and starts to talk with him and lead him on. There follows a series of shy approaches and advances. The relation- ship between the two changes and it’s as if they were inside a bub- ble suspended in mid- air, dreaming to fly away. But they are choked by fear as Veronica’s pun- ishment could arrive at any minute and it’s sure to be terrible. Italienska Filmfestivalen 7 16:e A FLAT FOR THREE Directed by: Carlo Verdone. Screenplay: Carlo Verdone, Pasquale Plastino, Maruska Albertazzi. Cinematography: Danilo Desideri. Editing: Antonio Siciliano. Production: Filmauro, MiBAC. Cast: Pierfrancesco Favino, Carlo Verdone, Marco Giallini, Micaela Ramazzotti, Diane Fleri, Nicoletta Romanoff. Year: 2012. Film run: 120’. PANORAMA Posti in piedi in Paradiso Carlo Verdone returns to the screen with Posti in piedi in Paradiso,a comedy that deals with three unlucky charac- ters. Three divorced husbands and fathers at the bottom of the pile, both romantically and professionally. They decide to share an apartment together in Rome: Ulisse (Carlo Verdone), a former music producer; Fulvio (Pierfrancesco Favino), a former film critic, and Domenico (Marco Galliani) a gambler who was temporarily living on a boat before meeting them. This typical “comedy Italian style” follows the progress of these three funny losers in the con- text of serious social considerations. Italienska Filmfestivalen 8 16:e EVERY BLESSED DAY Directed by: Paolo Virzì. Screenplay: Paolo Virzì, Francesco Bruni, Simone Lenzi. Cinematography: Vladan Radovic. Editing: Cecilia Zanuso. Production: Motorino Amaranto, Rai Cinema, in cooperation with Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena.