ITALIANFILMFESTIVAL.COM.AU @ITALIANFF #ITALIANFF sponsors LIGHTS, PRESENTED BY REVERSE CAMERA, ACTION. PRINCIPAL SPONSOR GOLD SPONSORS SILVER SPONSORS MEDIA PARTNERS SUPPORTING PARTNERS CULTURAL PARTNERS PROUD SPONSOR OF SYDNEY SEPT 13 - OCT 9 ADELAIDE SEPT 21 - OCT 12 MELBOURNE SEPT 15 - OCT 9 PERTH SEPT 22 - OCT 12 HOBART SEPT 15 - SEPT 25 BRISBANE SEPT 28 - OCT 19 CANBERRA SEPT 20 - OCT 12 contents festival GUESTS FESTIVAL GUESTS 88 DAYS Ruth Borgobello and Q&A about young Italian Maeve Dermody 05 migration to Australia 41 OPENING NIGHT GALA MELBOURNE INFO Perfect Strangers 07 Session Times 43 – 46 Events 47 CLOSING NIGHT SELECTION Ticketing & Booking 56 – 57 Roman Holiday [Restored] 09 SYDNEY INFO SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS Session Times 48 – 50 Rocco and his Brothers Events 51 [Restored] 10 Ticketing & Booking 56 – 57 The Space Between – World Premiere 11 CANBERRA INFO Session Times 52 SPECIAL EVENT Events 53 Ruth Maeve Where Am I Going? 13 Ticketing & Booking 56 – 57 Borgobello Dermody BRISBANE INFO Writer/Director Maeve Dermody CENTREPIECE Ruth Borgobello made her feature Sweet Dreams 15 Session Times 54 graduated from the film debut in 1993 as Events 55 Victorian College a young child in the IT’S COMPLICATED Ticketing & Booking 56 – 57 of the Arts in 2002. Her award feature filmBreathing Underwater. winning short films have screened In 2009 she was nominated for Films about relationships ADELAIDE INFO Daddy's Girl 16 at prestigious film festivals all over numerous awards playing opposite Ever Been to the Moon? 17 Session Times 58 the world, including the Tribeca Ben Mendelsohn, Bryan Brown Fiore 18 Events 59 Film Festival, Flickerfest and and Rachel Griffiths in the Rachel The Last will be the Last 19 Ticketing & Booking 61 Interfilm Berlin. Ward directed filmBeautiful Kate, Like Crazy 20 Passionate about forging links followed by Blackwater (2007) and One Kiss 21 PERTH INFO between Australia and Italy, Griff, The Invisible (2010), which Opposites Attract 22 Session Times 62 - 63 Ruth has just completed her first had its world premiere screening The Worldly Girl 23 Events 65 feature filmThe Space Between, in competition at the Berlin Film Ticketing & Booking 63 the first official Italian/Australian Festival in the same year. Maeve DONNE ITALIANE co-production, starring Flavio has also established herself as a rising star in the local theatre The best films by and starring HOBART INFO Parenti and Maeve Dermody. She world with leading roles in the Italy’s leading ladies Session Times, Events and currently works as a commercials Belvoir Theatre production of The Antonia 24 Ticketing & Booking 66 director across Italy and Australia Seagull, and the Sydney Theatre For Your Love 25 and has directed jobs for clients Company’s acclaimed production If You Tell Me 26 including Alfa Romeo, Bosch, and of Our Town. Maeve’s television Limbo 27 All films screen in Italian Friuli Venezia Giulia Tourism, Italy. roles include Bikie Wars (2012), Me, Myself & Her 28 with English subtitles unless Paper Giants: The Birth Of Cleo Solo 29 otherwise noted. Palace is proud to be presenting (2011), Rake (2012), Power Games: the World Premiere of The The Packer –Murdoch Story (2013), LIGHTS, DRAMA, ACTION! Space Between at the festival and Serangoon Road (2013). The best new crime dramas, nationally. Ruth will be attending In 2015 Maeve performed in comedies, biopics and more sessions nationally. Please check several U.K. productions including Arianna 30 Events pages for details. the BBC mini-series And Then The Complexity of Happiness 31 There Were None, an adaptation of The Confessions 32 the Agatha Christie mystery novel; Don’t Be Bad 33 the ITV London-set Noir crime The Duel of Wine 35 thriller Marcella, opposite Anna Italian Race 36 Friel, and SS-GB for BBC One. Napoli Jungle 37 Once in Summer 38 The Ploy 39 4 5 OPENing night GALA Perfetti sconosciuti AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PERFECT STRANGERS “Let’s play a game then. DIRECTOR: Paolo Genovese We’ll all put our phones on CAST: Giuseppe Battiston, Anna Foglietta, Marco Giallini, Edoardo the table…” Leo, Valerio Mastandrea, Alba Not just a box office hit but also Rohrwacher, Kasia Smutniak a national phenomenon, Paolo ITALY | 2016 | 97 MIN | Genovese’s latest dramedy has got the COMEDY/DRAMA whole of Italy asking: How well do we really know those closest to us? “Brilliant scripting Fuelled by a fiendishly clever screenplay and cast… effortlessly and an all-star cast, Perfect Strangers gathers a group of good friends transitions from tender around the dining table – three comedy to piercing 30-something couples and a bachelor drama.” – where one suggests they make all TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL SMSs and phone calls public across the course of the night. The reason: to DIRECTOR: prove they have nothing to hide. PAOLO GENOVESE What seems like an innocent Born in Rome experiment results in some eye- in 1966, Paolo Genovese earned opening disclosures – even a swapping a degree in Economics and of phones in a desperate concealment Business before moving into attempt – that shows how performance advertising at McCann Erickson dominates our public lives. Italiana where he won many As Genovese says, “Smartphones have awards for his TV commercials. become a fundamental object, perhaps He entered the filmmaking arena in 2001 with the film the only one that we always carry with Incantesimo Napoletano and us – our ‘black box’.” Never has the time has enjoyed great success been so ripe to offer such a cinematic largely with comedies such as take on a classic morality conundrum. Una famiglia perfetta (2012) and Tutta colpa di Freud (2013). WINNER: Best Film and Best Screenplay, David di Donatello Awards 2016 WINNER: Silver Ribbon for Best Comedy and Special Silver Ribbon for Ensemble Cast, Nastro D’Argento Awards 2016 WINNER: Best Screenplay, Tribeca Film Festival 2016 7 CLOSing night CLASSIC Vacanze romane ROMAN HOLIDAY NEW DIGITAL RESTORATION DIRECTOR: William Wyler Audiences are invited to fall in love CAST: Audrey Hepburn, Gregory again with the film that sent Audrey Peck, Eddie Albert, Hartley Hepburn’s star soaring. But far from Power, Harcourt Williams, just being one of the best romantic Margaret Rawlings comedies of all time – a claim that can USA | 1953 | 118 MIN | be confidently made in this case – ROMANTIC COMEDY Roman Holiday is a giddy valentine to Rome. “One of the happiest and Living a life of privilege and boredom, most enjoyable films ever Princess Ann (Audrey Hepburn) made.” skips out on her royal duties to enjoy URBAN CINEFILE some time as an everyday girl. As luck would have it, she falls into the arms of journalist Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck) who, upon learning her identity, sees an opportunity for an exclusive. But he DIRECTOR: doesn’t bet on romance. WILLIAM WYLER Born in 1902 in Amid the laughs and screwball antics, Germany, William Ann and Joe take in all the sights of Wyler emigrated Rome – from the Trevi Fountain to the to the US at the age of 18 where Colosseum – in “a regal and highly he worked as an errand boy illegal scoot-around” on the back of a for Universal Studios. By the Vespa. time of his death in 1981, he was widely regarded as one of the Only the hardest heart will come out greatest American filmmakers of the cinema not wearing a grin after of all time, with films likeMrs seeing this sublime restoration of a Miniver (1942), Ben-Hur (1959) Hollywood classic. and Funny Girl (1968) making up his body of work. WINNER: Best Actress in a Leading Role (Audrey Hepburn), Best Writing (Dalton Trumbo) and Best Costume Design (Edith Head), Academy Awards 1954 WINNER: Best British Actress (Audrey Hepburn), BAFTA Awards 1954 WINNER: Best Actress in a Drama (Audrey Hepburn), Golden Globes 1954 9 special PRESENTATION special PRESENTATION Rocco e i suoi fratelli WORLD PREMIERE ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS THE SPACE BETWEEN NEW DIGITAL RESTORATION DIRECTOR: Luchino Visconti Pioneering new ground as the DIRECTOR: Ruth Borgobello Thanks to the tireless efforts of film CAST: Alain Delon, Renato first Australian-Italian feature co- CAST: Flavio Parenti, Maeve legend Martin Scorsese in preserving Salvatori, Annie Girardot, production is writer-director Ruth Dermody, Lino Guanciale, Fulvio our cinema history, Visconti’s epic Claudia Cardinale Borgobello’s touching sensory delight, Falzarano, Marco Leonardi, The Space Between, making its world Giancarlo Previati, Antonietta of gritty social realism and almost ITALY, FRANCE | 1960 | 177 MIN | Bello, Patricia Mason, Zita Fusco, operatic melodrama returns to CRIME DRAMA premiere at LIFF. Alberto Torquati celluloid glory at this year’s LIFF. Marco (Flavio Parenti) is a 35 year-old ex-chef who has given up his career AUSTRALIA, ITALY | 2016 | 98 MIN One of the Big Three of Italian | DRAMA film releases from 1960 (alongside “Luchino Visconti’s and any sense of hope to return to Udine in Northern Italy to nurse his Antonioni’s L’avventura and Fellini’s La masterpiece can be “To me, one of the most dolce vita), Rocco and His Brothers is experienced once again ailing father. Even when offered a job at a restaurant in Melbourne, he revealing moments in life a cataclysmic family saga charting the in all its fearsome beauty is the strange intersection desperate attempts of impoverished declines using his father as the excuse. and power.” Southerners to seek a better future When tragedy strikes, the only between love and loss…” MARTIN SCORSESE in the Industrial North of Milan. The glimmer of joy arrives in the form of FILMMAKER RUTH BORGOBELLO stories of the five fratelli as they fall Olivia (Maeve Dermody), a spirited victim to corrupt forces are elegantly DIRECTOR: Australian chasing her dream of DIRECTOR: steered to an explosive finale that is LUCHINO VISCONTI working in design while on a family RUTH BORGOBELLO sure to still leave audiences reeling.