©2018 IMPOR TED BY BIRRA PERONI INTERNAZIONALE, W ASHINGTON, DC QUANTO BASTA As Needed Showing: Friday, October 5th at 8:00pm Genre: Romantic Comedy Director: Francesco Falaschi Cast: Giuliano Montaldo, Andrea Carpenzano, Arturo Bruni, Emanuele Propizio Screenplay: Filippo Bologna, Ugo Chiti, Francesco Falaschi, Federico Sperindei Director of Photography: Stefano Falivene Producer: Guglielmo Marchetti, Daniele Mazzocca EFedsittoivr:a Pl atnrdiz iAow Maarrdosn: e, Simone Manetti Music: Paolo Vivaldi, Alfredo Paixao YSeyanro: p2s0i1s:8 INSFJ 2018: Winner Graziella Bonacchi Award Arturo is a 40 year old talented chef who fell in disgrace because of his troubled past, he has serious anger management issues. Precisely because of his latest aggressive reaction he is assigned to serve community services at the San Donato Institute, a facility for Asperger patients, where he has to teach a cooking class. One of the patients, Guido, is a 20 year old boy with difficulties in social relationships, but with an absolute palate and a par - ticular talent for cooking. At the same time Arturo is trying unsuccessfully to convince his old teacher and mentor, Celso, to open a restaurant together. Just as he’s nearing the end of his community service and planning to move to the north to manage a restaurant owned by a shady character he is invited by Anna, the institute psychologist, to accompany Guido as a mentor to a cooking talent show in Tuscany. Arturo hates talent shows but reluctantly accepts and to further complicate matters he discovers, upon arriving, tIhNa ItT tAhLeI pArNe sWidIeTnHt oEfN tGheL IjSuHry S iUs BhTisI eTxL EbSu.siness partner, now become a celebrity chef, who he considers fully responsible for his past troubles and fall from grace. Arturo and Guido will be forced to spend time together for the duration of the competition and bit by bit their difficult relationship will turn into a friendship that will make both question their prejudices and will lead Arturo towards new personal and professional choices. LA CASA DI FAMIGLIA The Family House Showing: Saturday, October 6th at 5:30pm Genre: Comedy Director: Augusto Fornari Cast: Lino Guanciale, Stefano Fresi, Matilde Gioli, Libero De Rienzo Screenplay: Augusto Fornari, Toni Fornari, Vincenzo Sinopoli Director of Photography: Sebastiano De Pascalis Producer: Federica Lucisano, Fulvio Lucisano EFedsittoivr:a Pl iaentrdo A Mwoarradnsa Music: Gianluca Misiti YSyenaor:p 2si0s:1 7 : ICFF Italian Contemporary Film Festival 2018 Los Angeles - Italia 2018: Italian Cinema Today Alex, Oreste, Giacinto and Fanny are the four adult sons of Sergio, a very beloved father who five years ago has entered a coma and seems destined not to ever wake up again. Alex is a good for nothing womanizer who runs a sports club; Oreste is a frustrated classical musician reduced to direct - ing concerts of young boys with little talent; Giacinto is a hard, unforgiving, businessman who never smiles; and Fanny, a conflicted former wife abandoned by her husband who preferred a much younger woman to her. When Alex finds himself in financial difficulties and the survival of his sport club is in danger, the other brothers decide to help him by selling the beautiful family villa in the countryside where the four brothers have grown up and get rid of all its contents. To buy the property will be Zaffarano, the greasy former playmate of the four brothers with a ten-year crush for Fanny and the secret desire to belong to that lucky and happy family that has always looked at him with ill-concealed contempt. This is why Zaffarano bought the villa and has absolutely no intention to give it bacIkN t IoT tAheLmIA wNh WenI STeHrg iEoN mGiLraIcSuHlo SusUlyB aTwITakLeEnSs. from his coma the day after the signature by the notary and the sale of his home. The doctors strongly advise the brothers to avoiding any upheavals and reintroducing the parent into a welcoming and familiar environment. Thus began for the four brothers to hunt for old furniture, family heirlooms and even the beloved dog. The play and a complicated collection of good lies also begin. NOVE LUNE E MEZZA Nine and a half Moons Showing: Saturday, October 6th at 7:30pm GENRE: Romantic Comedy Director: Michela Andreozzi Cast: Claudia Gerini, Giorgio Pasotti, Stefano Fresi, Lillo Petrolo, Michela Andreozzi Screenplay: Michela Andreozzi, Fabio Morici Director of Photography: Giovanni Canevari FPerostdiuvcael ra: nIsda bAewllaar Cdusc: uzza, Arturo Paglia Editor: Luciana Pandolfelli SMyunsoicp: sNisic: colò Agliardi Year: 2017 INSFJ 2018: Nominated for Best Supporting Actor (Stefano Fresi) & Best Song, Ortigia Film Festival 2018, Rome Film Festival 2017 Two sister and two contrasting visions of life, on one side the adventurous and bold Livia (Claudia Gerini), a renowned cellist perfectly capable of having children but totally without any maternal instinct, on the other the reassuring routine of her sister Tina (Michela Andreozzi), shy urban policeman with an ardent desire for motherhood. Both have a loving partner who supports and encourages their decisions. Livia lives with Fabio (Giorgio Pasotti), a sweet and welcoming osteopath, and Tina with Gianni (Lillo), an ordi - nary and intolerant colleague in the urban police. Neither interferes in the life of the other, at least until Livia, on the advice of the gynecologist Nicola (Stefano Fresi), decides to carry on a pregnancy for her sister who cannot have children. For nine and a half moons, the exuberant Livia will have to hide her growing belly from family and friends, IwNh IiTleA tLhIeA aNw WkwITaHrd E LNivGiLaI wSHil lS pUrBeTteInTdL EtoS .be pregnant. The two will be protagonists of paradoxical situations that will also involve the rest of their crazy family, a mother champion of meat sauce, an idealistic father, a religiously obsessed brother with a devot - ed wife and four daughters. Only a woman, Director Michela Andreozzi, could direct this all star cast on a trip to discover the infinTiteU wTaysT ofO be iQng UwoEmeLn LanOd m CothHerEs. VUOI Friends by Chance Showing: Saturday, October 6th at 9:15pm GENRE: Comedy Drama Director: Francesco Bruni Cast: Giuliano Montaldo, Andrea Carpenzano, Arturo Bruni, Emanuele Propizio Screenplay: Francesco Bruni Director of Photography: Arnaldo Catinari FPerostdiuvcael ra: nBde pApwe aCradssc:hetto Editor: Mirko Platania, Cecilia Zanuso Music: Carlo Virzì Year: 2017 David di Donatello 2018: Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Giuliano Montaldo) Italian Film Festival USA 2018: Audience Award, Semana de Cine Italiano - Buenos Aires 2018, Cinema Italia - Israel 2018, Cinema Italia Oggi 2018, Cinema Made in Italy - Oslo 2018, De Rome à Paris 2018, Festival du Cinema Italien Sdey nBoasptsiai s2: 018: Compétition - Prix du Jury Jeune, NICE New italian Cinema Events Festival - Russia 2018, Sydney Film Festival 2018: Focus on ItalyTerra di Cinema festival 2018: Compétition Fictions - Prix du Public, Viva il Cinema! Journées du film italien à Tours 2018: Inédit Winner of five awards including two prestigious 2018 David di Donatello, for the Direction and Best Supporting Actor, and three Silver Ribbons with an additional seven nominations, Tutto Quello che Vuoi tells the story of Alessandro, a hot headed 22 year old turbulent and ignorant slacker from Trastevere in Rome and Giorgio, an elderly poet living with the beginning of Alzheimer. Alessandro is surrounded by friends that, just like him, have no direction or real purpose in life, gambling, getting into fights and spending nights in jail. He has lost his mother when he was just two years old and has become the torment of his father, a peddler in Porta Portese, the local flea market, who cannot imagine a good future for his idle and furious son and is unable to find the key to his heart. Fed up with his constant misbehavior he demands that Alessandro take the job of caregiver for the eightyfive year old Giorgio accompanying the ill and disoriented poet on his afternoon walks in the beautiful Gianocolo Hills. Giorgio lives in solitude and restraint in a beautiful flat surrounded by the memories of his life with the only help and care of his landlady and neighbor. He can IsNtil lI TmAoLvIeA aNro WunIdT Hbu Et NhiGs LmISinHd SisU dBrTiftIiTnLg ErSel. entlessly away from the present as Alessandro discovers clues of a mystery dating back to WWII in the old bard poetry and strange writings on the apartment walls and, following them, will embark on a trip, together with Giorgio, in search for hidden riches and the real depth of his own heart. Next stop... www .myitalianclass. com CI VUOLE UN FISICO In Top Form? No thank you! Showing: Sunday, October 7th at 5:30pm GENRE: Romantic Comedy Director: Alessandro Tamburini Cast: Anna Ferraioli Ravel, Alessandro Tamburini, Francesca Valtorta, Niccolò Senni Screenplay: Gianluca Ansanelli, Alessandro Tamburini, Ciro Zecca Director of Photography: Roberto Cimatti Producer: Elisabetta Bruscolini Editor: Francesco Fabbri MSyunsoicp: sTios:ny Canto Year: 2018 Alessandro has an appointment with Francesca, the girl of his dreams: a full nine, in the ungenerous ranking that places people on a scale of one to ten according to their physical appearance. Anna has an appointment with Pietro for whom she lost thirty pounds in three months, just trying to conform to that aesthetic canon that has little room for individual differ - ences. The appointment of both is fixed in the same restaurant in Modena, but both will have to face a no show, the frequent fate of those who belong to the category "a bit 'over the ugly" and much under the security of self, which both Alessandro and Anna belong to. In the beginning Alessadro cannot stand Francesca who considers ugly and pushy. But during a long night full of fights, wild dances, night-time bINat IhTsA aLnIdA oNt hWerI TadHv eEnNtGurLeIsS, Hhe S gUeBtsT tIoT LknEoS w her better while he learns something about himself too.