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CineFesta Italia, The Italian Film Festival in Santa Fe 2018

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April 20 - 22, 2018 Santa Fe, New Mexico

April 24, 2018 Los Angeles, California

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Come to Santa Fe • New Mexico • USA Film Fest: April 20 - 22, 2018

Come to Los Angeles • California • USA Film Fest: April 24, 2018

CineFesta Italia 2018 - Film Selection Press Kit POC: Luca Ceccarelli Creative Director, CineFesta / [email protected] / +1. 323-540-6400 www.CineFestaItalia.org

CineFesta Italia The Italian Film Festival in Santa Fe Curated Film Selections Win Big at David di Donatello Awards, "Italy's Oscars"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — April 9, 2018 (Santa Fe, NM) CineFesta Italia is proud to bring to Santa Fe the films that took top honors on March 22 at the David di Donatello Awards ("Italy's Oscars").

Musical / action thriller / romantic comedy Ammore e Malavita won Best Picture plus 4 more Awards. Ciro (Giampaolo Morelli) is among the most feared men in Naples, one of two killers at the service of crime boss Don Vincenzo (Carlo Buccirosso), “the King of Fish.” One night a young nurse, Fatima (Serena Rossi), finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time and sees too much; Ciro is given the job of getting rid of her. But when the two end up face to face, they recognize each other as childhood sweethearts.

Winner of 2018 Donatello Awards: Best Picture Best Supporting Actress - Claudia Gerini Best Score Best Original Song Best Costume Design

Showtime Saturday, April 21 - 6:30 pm Jean Cocteau Cinema

A Ciambra revisits characters from Jonas Carpignano's Mediterranea. At its center is Pio Amato, a 14-year-old boy living on the poor side of a Calabrian town (“A Ciambra”), where frictions between Italians, gypsies and African immigrants run high, and petty crime is a way of life. Carpignano elicits terrific performances from the predominantly nonprofessional cast, aided by Tim Curtin’s fluid cinematography.

Winner of 2018 Donatello Awards: Best Director - Jonas Carpignano Best Editing - Alfonso Gonclaves

Showtime Sunday, April 22 - 6 pm Violet Crown Cinema

Set almost entirely aboard a retro-futuristic ship in the harbor of Naples, Gatta Cenerentola re-imagines Cinderella as a 17-year-old, vaguely emo-punk chick who's about to be married off to a megalomaniac drug dealer who wants to turn Naples into the crime capital of the world. Of course, there's an evil stepmother who's raising her own children as — what else? — cabaret dancers, and also a heroic policeman who might be able to give this crazy, music-filled and intentionally somewhat chaotic ride a happy ending.

Winner of 2018 Donatello Awards: Best Producer - Luciano Stella & Maria Carolina Terzi Best Digital Effects

Showtime Saturday, April 21 - 4:30 pm Jean Cocteau Cinema

Tutto Quello Che Vuoi is a heartwarming dramedy about two unlikely friends. Alessandro (Andrea Carpenzano) is a tempestuous young slacker and a source of endless frustration to his father. Giorgio (Giuliano Montaldo) is a former poet in the early stages of Alzheimer syndrome. The two live within a stone’s throw of one another, but their paths have never crossed until Alessandro is forced to accompany … the old man on his afternoon walks.

Winner of 2018 Donatello Awards: Best Supporting Actor - Giuliano Montaldo Youth David

Showtime Saturday, April 21 - 12:30 pm Jean Cocteau Cinema

"We're lucky to have a Creative Director who has such an eye and ear for Italian cinema," says Executive Director, Lisa Contarino. "We're all very proud and excited about Luca's selections."

Il Ragazzo Invisibile, Seconda Generazione (The Invisible Boy, Second Generation) and The Place, additional curated films selected by Creative Director Luca Ceccarelli and the Official Selections from CineFesta Italia's first-ever international competition round out its 2018 schedule.

Filmmakers from the documentary feature, Camminando sull'Acqua (Walking on Water) and the short, fiSOlofia (PhiSOlophy) are traveling from Italy and will offer Q&As following the screening of their films.

The competition's Official Selections are FREE to the public and admission to the curated selection of films is $12 or full festival passes are available for $125, which includes admission to all films and events.

The festivities begin on Friday, April 20 and continue throughout the weekend with films and other wonderful events, such as CineFesta Italia's ever-popular Opening Reception and seminar / tasting event, The Liquid Art of the Aperitivo.

Events also include a Saturday morning Film Industry Panel discussion of two important questions: QUESTION 1: With the emergence of so many media platforms, how do emerging filmmakers identify a target format? QUESTION 2: How are the #social movements sweeping across America today going to affect the stories that filmmakers want to tell and audiences want to see?

FULL SCHEDULE:

Friday, April 20, 2018

Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501 11:30 am Documentary Program, featuring Oltre il Confine, la Storia di Ettore Castiglioni (Beyond the Border, the Story of Ettore Castiglioni) & Sagre Balere (Dance Hall Land), Free admission 2:30 pm Agadah, drama / fantasy feature film, Free admission 5:00 pm Opening Reception (includes admission to Il Ragazzo Invisiblile 2), $45 6:00 pm Il Ragazzo Invisibile, Seconda Generazione (The Invisible Boy, Second Generation), action / adventure / comedy feature film, $12 8:15 pm Bianco di Babbudoiu (A Fistful of Grapes), comedy feature film Free admission

Saturday, April 21, 2018

Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501 11:30 am Film Industry Panel, (see website for details), Free admission 12:30 pm Tutto Quello che Vuoi (Friends by Chance), comedy / drama feature film, $12 2:45 pm Camminando sull ’Aqua (Walking on Water), documentary + Q&A, Free admission

Osteria d’Assisi, 58 South Federal Place, Santa Fe, NM 87501 3:00 pm The Liquid Art of the Aperitivo seminar & tasting $40

Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501 4:30 pm Gatta Cenerentola (Cinderella the Cat), animation / crime / thriller, $12 6:30 pm Ammore e Malavita (Love and Bullets), comedy / crime / musical feature film, $12 9:15 pm Dammi una Mano (Lend a Hand), comedy / drama feature film, Free admission

Sunday, April 22, 2018

Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501 12:15 pm Shorts program + Q&A, Free admission

2:30 pm The Place, comedy / drama feature film, $12

Violet Crown Cinema, 1606 Alcaldesa Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501 5:00 pm Juried Awards Reception, $25 6:00 pm A Ciambra, drama feature film, $12

Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501 6:00 pm Bianco di Babbudoiu (A Fistful of Grapes), comedy feature film, Free admission 8:30 pm Official Holdover Screening

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Italian Institute of Culture, 1023 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024 6:00 pm Opening Reception Welcome & Audience Choice Awards followed by:

Jury Selected Best Short

Jury Selected Best Narrative Feature

*PRICES: ● All Festival Pass (including films, receptions, panel, seminar): $125 ● Individual film tickets for curated film selections: $12; $9 students ● Individual film tickets for competitive Official Selections: FREE ● Opening reception: $45, includes film following ● Film Industry Panel: FREE ● Aperitivi Seminar: $40 ● Juried Awards Reception: $25

For more information on all the films and to stay up-to-date, visit CineFestaItalia.org and join the mailing list. Tickets to all scheduled films and events may also be purchased on the CineFesta website.

Film stills from top (clockwise from top left): Ammore e Malavita, A Ciambra, Tutto Quello Che Vuoi, Gatta Cenerentola

SCREENERS FOR ALL FILMS ARE AVAILABLE TO THE PRESS. EMAIL [email protected] for links and passwords.

CineFesta Italia The Italian Film Festival in Santa Fe Announces FREE Public Screenings

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE— March 23, 2018 (Santa Fe, NM) BREAKING NEWS: At YESTERDAY’S David di Donatello Awards in Italy, A Ciambra & Ammore e Malavita split top awards. CineFesta Italia is proud to bring these and other Donatello winners Gatta Cenerentola and Tutto Quello che Vuoi to Santa Fe next month! Click for more information.

CineFesta Italia in Santa Fe has finalized its film selections for 2018, including both curated films selected by Creative Director Luca Ceccarelli and the Official Selections from its first-ever international competition. The deadline for submissions to the competition has just passed and films have been selected to screen by a jury made up of a wide range of experienced film professionals from Santa Fe and Los Angeles to as far away as Rome.

The big news this year is that half the films will be FREE to the public. “Part of our mission is to raise awareness of, and celebrate Italian culture,” says Luca Ceccarelli. “What better way than making screenings free? I’ve wanted to do this for a long time and, thanks to our generous sponsors, we are able to offer free admission to screenings of the Official Selections from our international competition.” Admission to the curated selection of films will remain at $12 or full festival passes are available for a limited time for $99, which includes admission to all films and events.

The festival begins at 11:30 am on Friday, April 20, with a soft opening that offers free screenings of three of the Official Selections. Under the auspices of the Italian Consulate General of Italy - Los Angeles, and with the support of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura - Los Angeles, the festival officially opens in Santa Fe, New Mexico at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, April 20, with a reception featuring Italian wine and hors d’oeuvres at Jean Cocteau Cinema. Attending the reception will be the Honorable Antonio Verde, Consul General of Italy in Los Angeles and Valeria Rumori, Director of the Italian Institute of Culture in Los Angeles. Invitations will also be sent to both outgoing Mayor Javier Gonzales and newly elected

Mayor Alan Webber, as well as other dignitaries.

The reception and Awards Ceremony will be followed by the screening of the official opening film, Il Ragazzo Invisibile, Seconda Generazione, the sequel in Gabriele Salvatores’ popular Heroes meets Xmen action/adventure saga Italian style! …

On Saturday, in addition to films, the lineup will include The Liquid Art of the Aperitivo, a lively exploration of the Italian Aperitivo and a sampling of easy-to-make “appetite opening” cocktails with Natalie Bovis, founder of The Liquid Muse and New Mexico Cocktails & Culture Festival.

Named one of four women leading the liquor industry, Natalie Bovis is a spirits expert, cocktail book author, event producer and marketer creating brand immersion experiences ranging from her annual NM Cocktails & Culture Festival (returning June 1 - 3, 2018) to cocktail classes and other spirited culinary adventures in the U.S. and abroad. She’s been a spokesperson for spirit and wine brands, hosts video shows, has taught at cocktail festivals around the country and judged cocktail competitions around the world. She is also the Co-Creator of OM Organic Mixology Liqueurs.

As Natalie says, “The Italian way of drinking is part of living ‘la dolce vita.’ ”

Sunday’s selection of films will culminate Sunday evening in the Juried Awards Reception at Violet Crown Cinema. Awards will be given for Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary Feature and Best Short among the Official Selections from the international competition.

Also new this year, the Best Short and Best Narrative Feature will enjoy a public screening in Los Angeles on April 24, courtesy of the collaboration between CineFesta Italia and the Italian Institute of Culture in Los Angeles.

FULL SCHEDULE: Friday, April 20, 2018

2:30 pm Agadah, drama / fantasy feature film Free admission

5:00 pm Opening Reception (includes admission to Il Ragazzo Invisiblile 2) $45/$40*

6:00 pm Il Ragazzo Invisibile, Seconda Generazione (The Invisible Boy, Second

Generation), action / adventure / comedy feature film $12

8:15 pm Bianco di Babbudoiu (A Fistful of Grapes), comedy feature film Free admission

Saturday, April 21, 2018

Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501 11:30 am Panel discussion - details TBA Free admission

12:30 pm Tutto Quello che Vuoi (Friends by Chance), comedy / drama feature film $12

2:45 pm Camminando sull ’Aqua (Walking on Water), documentary Free admission Followed by Q&A with filmmaker

Osteria d’Assisi, 58 South Federal Place, Santa Fe, NM 87501 3:00 pm The Liquid Art of the Aperitivo seminar & tasting $40/$35*

Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501 4:30 pm Gatta Cenerentola (Cinderella the Cat), animation / crime / thriller $12

6:30 pm Ammore e Malavita (Love and Bullets), comedy / crime / musical feature film $12

9:15 pm Dammi una Mano (Lend a Hand), comedy / drama feature film Free admission

Sunday, April 22, 2018

Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501 12:15 pm Shorts program Free admission Followed by Q&A with one of the filmmakers

2:30 pm The Place, comedy / drama feature film $12

Violet Crown Cinema, 1606 Alcaldesa Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501 5:00 pm Juried Awards Reception $25/$20*

6:00 pm A Ciambra, drama feature film $12

Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501 6:00 pm Bianco di Babbudoiu (A Fistful of Grapes), comedy feature film Free admission

8:30 pm Official Holdover Screening

*PRICES: ● All Festival Pass (including films, receptions, panel, seminar): $125; $99 if purchased by March 31 ● Individual film tickets for curated film selections: $12; $9 students ● Individual film tickets for competitive Official Selections: FREE ● Opening reception: $45, includes film following; $40 if purchased by March 31 ● Aperitivi Seminar: $40; $35 if purchased by March 31 ● Juried Awards Reception: $25; $20 if purchased by March 31

Film stills from top: Il Ragazzo Invisibile Seconda Generazione, A Ciambra, The Place

SCREENERS FOR ALL FILMS ARE AVAILABLE TO THE PRESS. EMAIL [email protected] for links and passwords.

ABOUT

CineFesta Italia is an annual event of films, food and culture to benefit local charities. In 2018, as in 2017 and 2016, Santa Fe beneficiaries are Cooking with Kids and Communities in Schools of New Mexico.

The events are a collaboration between Italian government agencies, non-profit organizations and business to bring a unique presentation of film and culture while helping these great charities.

CineFesta Italia is organized as a 501(c)(3) tax exempt, non profit organization and enjoys the help of many dedicated volunteers and the Italian Consulate offices of New Mexico.

Contact Information Luca Ceccarelli CineFesta Italia http://www.cinefestaitalia.org/home.html +1 323-540-6400

Online Web Version You can read the online version of this press release here.

Third Annual CineFesta Italia Brings Contemporary Italian Film to Santa Fe April 20 - 22, 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE— March 6, 2018 (Santa Fe, NM) CineFesta Italia in Santa Fe is gearing up for its April 20 opening with a carefully curated selection of Italian feature films. Selections are ongoing, but here’s a sneak peak at a few titles screening this year:

● A Ciambra, by Jonas Carpignano was Italy’s official submission to the Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film. Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, this keenly observed drama from Jonas Carpignano revisits characters from his Mediterranea. At its center is Pio Amato, a 14-year-old boy living on the poor side of a Calabrian town (“A Ciambra”), where frictions between Italians, gypsies and African immigrants run high, and petty crime is a way of life. Carpignano elicits terrific performances from the predominantly nonprofessional cast, aided by Tim Curtin’s fluid cinematography. “A coming-of-age drama with a stealthy emotional charge that further enhances the writer-director’s reputation as a gifted practitioner of Italian neo-neorealism.” – David Rooney (THR) TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1l4Hpp27A4 SCREENER: available upon request

● Tutto Quello Che Vuoi (English title: Friends by Chance) Alessandro (Andrea Carpenzano) is a tempestuous young slacker and a source of endless frustration to his father. Giorgio (Giuliano Montaldo) is a former poet in the early stages of Alzheimer syndrome. The two live within a stone’s throw of one another, but their paths have never crossed until Alessandro is forced to accompany the old man on … his afternoon walks. Bruni received a Nastri d’Argento Award for Best Screenplay for this heartwarming dramedy. TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7LNUMN-0WM SCREENER: available upon request

● Gatta Cenerentola (Cinderella the Cat) The classic fairytale gets an unexpectedly dark and hip update in this strikingly animated tale from the Italian directorial foursome Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri, Dario Sansone and Alessandro Rak (all newcomers except for Rak, who earlier directed European Film Award winner The Art of Happiness). Set almost entirely aboard a retro-futuristic ship in the harbor of Naples, the story re-imagines Cinderella as a 17-year-old, vaguely emo-punk chick who's about to be married off to a megalomaniac drug dealer who wants to turn Naples into the crime capital of the world. Of course, there's an evil stepmother who's raising her own children as — what else? — cabaret dancers, and also a heroic policeman who might be able to give this crazy, music-filled and intentionally somewhat chaotic ride a happy ending. TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwRM12OiZK8 SCREENER: available upon request

● Ammore e Malavita (Love and Bullets) This music-filled romp from the Manetti Bros. earned a Golden Lion nomination at the Venice Film Festival. Ciro (Giampaolo Morelli) is among the most feared men in Naples, one of two killers at the service of crime boss Don Vincenzo (Carlo Buccirosso), “the King of Fish.” One night a young nurse, Fatima (Serena Rossi), finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time and sees too much; Ciro is given the job of getting rid of her. But when the two end up face to face, they recognize each other as childhood sweethearts. Set in the beautiful Bay of Naples, the movie is a musical, an action thriller but also a romantic comedy

with scores from Neapolitans songs to rap. TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HMd5SGOUyE SCREENER: available upon request

● Il Ragazzo Invisibile: Seconda Generazione (Invisible Boy: Second Generation), Heroes meets X-Men, Gabriele Salvatores style! A new era of Italian action / adventure. Two years after its debut, the Invisible Boy is back with the second chapter of the saga, once again directed by Oscar-winner Gabriele Salvatores. The young superhero Michele is now 16 and is facing all the troubles of his age. However, it is hard to return to all of the problems this age demands after having discovered you have super powers. TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fCd25Dxt5M SCREENER: available upon request

“The focus this year is on films and the curated film selection is very dynamic and exciting for the 2018 edition of CineFesta Italia,” says Creative Director Luca Ceccarelli. “It’s possibly our best yet.”

Noteworthy this year is the festival’s first-ever competition. In addition to the curated films selected by Luca Ceccarelli, CineFesta Italia will screen selections from entries to the competition. “This is a truly exciting time in Italian cinema, not only at the Oscars, but also in the festival circuit at large,” says Luca. “We’re especially excited at CineFesta Italia to proudly announce our festival is now open to submissions. And you’ll be riveted by the entries!”

CineFesta Italia is keeping mum about the jury for the competition until selections have been made, but it includes a wide range of experienced film professionals from as near as Santa Fe and Los Angeles to as far away as Rome.

The final date for entries is March 15 and no details about films selected from the competition will be available until filmmakers have been notified on March 20. Interested filmmakers may view the competition, along with rules and submission requirements at FilmFreeway.com/CineFestaItalia.

Under the auspices of the Italian Consulate General of Italy - Los Angeles, and the support of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura - Los Angeles, the festival opens in Santa Fe, New Mexico at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, April 20, with a reception featuring Italian wine and hors d’oeuvres at Jean Cocteau Cinema. Attending the reception will be the Honorable Antonio Verde, Consul General of Italy in Los Angeles and Valeria Rumore, Director of the Italian Institute of Culture in Los Angeles. These dignitaries will preside over the Awards Ceremony for the juried awards for films entered into the festival competition. Invitations will also be sent to both outgoing Mayor Gonzales and the incoming newly elected official.

Also new this year, winners of the juried awards for Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary Feature and Best Short will enjoy a public screening in Los Angeles on April 24, courtesy of the collaboration between CineFesta Italia and the Italian Institute of Culture in Los Angeles.

The reception and Awards Ceremony will be followed by the screening of the opening film in the festival.

As Natalie says, “The Italian way of drinking is part of living ‘la dolce vita.’ ”

Sunday’s selection of films will culminate Sunday evening in the Audience Choice Awards Ceremony at the Violet Crown Cinema.

Films are still being selected and schedule details finalized, but the festival will screen at least eight to ten films; possibly as many as twelve, during the three days of CineFesta Italia.

Prices: ● All Festival Pass (including films, receptions, seminar, ceremonies): $99 if purchased by March 31. ● Individual film tickets: $12; student discounts available. See website for details. ● Opening reception: $45, includes film; $40 if purchased by March 31. ● Aperitivi Seminar: $40; $35 if purchased by March 31.

To stay up-to-date about film selections, programming and other events, visit CineFestaItalia.org and join the mailing list. Tickets to all scheduled films and events may also be purchased on the CineFesta website.

About CineFesta Italia CineFesta Italia raises awareness of Italian culture through an annual Italian film festival, delighting moviegoers with contemporary and emerging Italian cinema. A 501(c)(3) non-profit organization fully staffed by volunteers, CineFesta Italia donates a portion of

festival proceeds to charitable partners that support Santa Fe’s neediest children in today’s challenging world. This year’s festival benefits Communities in Schools at Santa Fe and Cooking with Kids.

Film stills from top: Tutto Quello che Vuoi, Gatta Cenerentola, Ammore e Malavita

SCREENERS FOR ALL FILMS ARE AVAILABLE TO THE PRESS. EMAIL [email protected] for links and passwords.

***ALL SCREENERS ARES STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL*** FILMS ARE IN ORDER OF FESTIVAL SCREENING

Documentary Features

Camminando sull’Acqua Walking on Water (2016) 50 min. – Documentary Saturday, April 21 - 2:45 pm Jean Cocteau Cinema

Screening followed by Q&A with filmmaker

The flood of 1966 in Florence through the eyes, the

camera and the creativity of Beppe Fantacci, who POSTER helped the famous artisans of Florence to survive the devastation of the city. A forgotten story of STILL PHOTOS desperation, creativity and recovery, the film features unreleased, amazing 16mm color footage, and exclusive TRAILER memories of the flood by families such as Bargellini,

SCREENER available upon Ferragamo, Pucci, Tayar, and by gifted artisans who request survived nowadays thanks to men like Beppe Fantacci.

AWARDS: DIRECTOR: Gianmarco D’Agostino SCREENWRITER: Gianmarco D’Agostino 2016 Mumbai Shorts International Film Festival ASSEMBLY: Alessandro Anichini Best Director Award Languages: Italian (English subtitles)

2017 N.I.C.E. New Italian Cinema Events Russia Official Selection

2017 GardenCity International Film Festival Official Selection

50th Worldfest Houston Platinum Remi Award

2017 Valdarno Cinema Fedic Official Selection

2017 Premio Marcellino de Baggis Official Selection

2017 Est Film Festival Best Documentary Award

2017 Ierapetra International Documentary Festival Official Selection

2017 Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival Official Selection

2017 Action On Film Festival Best Editing - Documentary (Nomination)

2017 Jahorina Film Festival Official Selection

2017 Southampton International Film Festival Best Feature Documentary (Nomination)

Photography in A Feature Documentary (Nomination) Editing in a Feature Documentary (Nomination)

2017 Reale Film Festival Best Documentary Award

2017 N.I.C.E. New Italian Cinema Events U.S.A. "Cittá di Firenze” Special Award 2017 Voices from the Waters International Traveling Film Festival Official Selection

Oltre il Confine, La Storia di Ettore Castiglioni Beyond the Border, The Story of Ettore Castiglioni (2017) 66 min. – Documentary Friday, April 20 - 11:30 am Jean Cocteau Cinema

The story of mountaineer Ettore Castiglioni (1908-1944) lives through the words of his diary. From a young boy coming from a good family, restless and POSTER solitary, a lover of arts and music, to lieutenant and

then partisan escorting refugees and Jews safely from STILL PHOTOS Italy to the Swiss border. A journey suspended TRAILER between past and present, through witnesses and documents that try to shine a light on the SCREENER available upon mountaineer’s death. His diary ends at March 1944. request Castiglioni did not want to leave a trace of what

happened. After entering Switzerland under false AWARDS: identity, he is arrested in Maloja (Grisons); his clothes 2017 Trento Film Festival and boots are confiscated and he is locked in a room at Migliore film documentario the hotel Longhin. During the night, he climbs out of Italiano the window and faces the Forno glacier wearing only 2017 Film Festival Lessinia a blanket. His frozen body was later found a few "Migliore Film Fulle Alpi" Premio meters over the Italian border. What pushed him to della Cassa Rurale Bassa try an impossible escape? And what was his mission Vallagarina in Switzerland? The deeper meaning of his gesture 2017 Sestriere Film Festival seems to call back to a romantic idea of Primo premio mountaineering and the need for absolute freedom.

2017 FICMUS - Festival Internacional de Cine de DIRECTOR: Andrea Azzetti | Federico Massa Montaña Ushuaia Shh SCREENWRITER: Andrea Azzetti | Federico Massa | "Premio al Personaje: Ettore Castiglioni" FICMUS Gerassimos Valentis | Villi Herman CAST: Stefano Scandaletti 2017 Milani Mountaion Film Languages: Italian (English subtitles) Festival Premio della Giuria

Sagre Balere Dance Hall Land (2017) 73 min. – Documentary Friday, April 20 - 12:45 pm Jean Cocteau Cinema

Omar was born in the suburbs of Milan and was destined to be an auto bodyworker, but, instead, he became a successful ballroom singer. He got inspired by listening to ballroom singers at Angelo Zibetti’s

POSTER Studio Zeta, the biggest dance club in Italy at that time and, this way, he later started his own career. STILL PHOTOS After about a decade working as a singer, he finally

TRAILER met Adele, the love of his life, who became his manager, turned him into a real icon for the fans of SCREENER available upon ballroom music. Thus he has become the man who request could gather enormous crowds of audience at clubs, AWARDS: squares, and local festivals. The film tells the story of Omar and shows him, in his 20th year of career with 2017 Bellaria Film Festival Best Documentary (Italia Doc his band, as we travel together with him in their long Award) tour around many Northern regions of Italy. A life in

2017 ShorTS International Film and out of the spotlight, mirror of a marginal and Festival somehow old fashioned Italy, that is probably destined Best Documentary Production to disappear for good. 2017 Cervino Cinemountain Film Commission Award DIRECTOR: Alessandro Stevanon 2017 Detour Festival del Cinema SCREENWRITER: Eleonora Mastropietro | Alessandro di Viaggio Best Documentary (Viaggio in Stevanon Italia) CAST: Omar

2017 On the Road Film Festival Languages: Italian (English subtitles) Special Mention Jury Award

Narrative Features

A Ciambra (2017) 118 min. – Drama Sunday, April 22 - 6 pm Violet Crown Cinema

Italy’s official submission to the Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film and executive produced by Martin Scorsese, this keenly observed drama from Jonas Carpignano revisits characters from his Mediterranea.

POSTER At its center is Pio Amato, a 14-year-old boy living on the poor side of a Calabrian town (“A Ciambra”), STILL PHOTOS where frictions between Italians, gypsies and African

TRAILER immigrants run high, and petty crime is a way of life. Carpignano elicits terrific performances from the SCREENER available upon predominantly nonprofessional cast, aided by Tim request Curtin’s fluid cinematography. “A coming-of-age AWARDS: drama with a stealthy emotional charge that further 10 wins & 11 nominations enhances the writer-director’s reputation as a gifted

2018 David di Donatello Awards practitioner of Italian neo-neorealism.” – David Rooney Won, Best Director (THR) Jonas Carpignano Won, Best Editing Alfonso Gonclaves DIRECTOR: Jonas Carpignano SCREENWRITER: Jonas Carpignano 2018 CinEuphoria Awards Won, CinEuphoria CAST: Pio Amato | Koudous Seihon Top Ten of the Year - Languages: Italian (English subtitles) International Competition Jonas Carpignano

2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards Nominated, Independent Spirit Award Best Director

Jonas Carpignano

2018 International Cinephile Society Awards Won, ICS Award Best Picture Not Released in 2017

2018 Kosmorama, Trondheim Internasjonale Filmfestival Nominated, New Directors Award Jonas Carpignano (director)

2018 Palm Springs International Film Festival Nominated, FIPRESCI Prize Best Foreign Language Film Jonas Carpignano

2018 Trieste Film Festival Won, SNCCI Award Best Italian Film Jonas Carpignano

2017 AFI Fest Nominated, Audience Award World Cinema Jonas Carpignano

2017 Bergen International Film Festival Won, Cinema Extraordinaire Jonas Carpignano

2017 CPH PIX Nominated, Politiken's Audience Award Jonas Carpignano

2017 Cannes Film Festival Won, Label Europa Cinemas Jonas Carpignano

2017 Ghent International Film Festival Won, Georges Delerue Prize Best Music Dan Romer (composer)

Nominated, Grand Prix Best Film Jonas Carpignano

2017 Haifa International Film Festival Nominated, Golden Anchor Award Jonas Carpignano

2017 Jameson CineFest - Miskolc International Film Festival Won, International Confederation of Art Cinemas Award Jonas Carpignano

2017 Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival Nominated, Jaeger - LeCoultre Best Film Award Best Film Jonas Carpignano

2017 Munich Film Festival Nominated, CineVision Award Best Film By An Emerging Director Jonas Carpignano

2017 Seville European Film Festival Won, Best Actor Pio Amato

2017 Stockholm Film Festival Nominated, Bronze Horse Best Film Jonas Carpignano

2017 Zagreb Film Festival Nominated, The Golden Pram Best Film Jonas Carpignano (director)

Agadah (2017) 126 min. – Drama / Fantasy Friday, April 20 - 2:30 pm Jean Cocteau Cinema

Based on the novel “Manuscript found in Saragosse” of Jan Potocki.

DIRECTOR: Alberto Rondalli SCREENWRITER: Alberto Rondalli CAST: Nahuel Perez Biscayart | Alessio Boni | Valentina Cervi POSTER Languages: Italian | French | Spanish (English subtitles) STILL PHOTOS

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Ammore e Malavita Love and Bullets (2017) 133 min. – Comedy / Crime / Musical Saturday, April 21 - 6:30 pm Jean Cocteau Cinema

This music-filled romp earned a Golden Lion nomination at the Venice Film Festival. Ciro (Giampaolo Morelli) is among the most feared men in Naples, one of two killers at the service of crime boss Don Vincenzo (Carlo Buccirosso), “the King of Fish.”

POSTER One night a young nurse, Fatima (Serena Rossi), finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time and sees STILL PHOTOS too much; Ciro is given the job of getting rid of her. But

TRAILER when the two end up face to face, they recognize each other as childhood sweethearts. Set in the beautiful SCREENER available upon Bay of Naples, the movie is a musical, an action request thriller but also a romantic comedy with scores from AWARDS: Neapolitans songs to rap. 5 wins & 1 nomination

2018 David di Donatello Awards DIRECTOR: Antonio Manetti | Marco Manetti Won, Best Picture SCREENWRITER: Michelangelo La Neve | Antonio Won, Best Supporting Actress - Claudia Gerini Manetti | Marco Manetti Won, Best Score CAST: Claudia Gerini | Carlo Buccirosso | Giampaolo Won, Best Original Song Won, Best Costume Design Morelli | Serena Rossi Languages: Italian (English subtitles) 2017 Premio Berenice Won, La Chioma di Berenice Best Music in Fiction Pivio (composer), Aldo De Scalzi (composer)

2017 Venice Film Festival Nominated, Golden Lion Best Film Antonio Manetti, Marco Manetti

Won, La Pellicola d'Oro Award Best Production Manager in an Italian Film Daniele Spinozzi

Won, Pasinetti Award Best Cast Raiz, Claudia Gerini, Giampaolo Morelli, Antonio Buonomo, Serena Rossi, Franco Ricciardi, Carlo Buccirosso

Bianco di Babbudoiu A Fistful of Grapes (2016) 93 min. – Comedy Friday, April 20 - 8:15 pm Sunday, April 22 - 6 pm Jean Cocteau Cinema

After an EU grant to expand their family winery falls through, a group of sibling discover they have only fifteen days to pay back the money the bank loaned them against the expected funding. Desperate to save POSTER the business and prevent their wives and girlfriends STILL PHOTOS from finding out, they embark on a series of reckless hijinks to beg, borrow, steal and extort what it takes to TRAILER pay the loan back. SCREENER available upon request DIRECTOR: Igor Biddau

Best Feature Film

2017 Smile Russia Best Cast

2017 Best Film Awards (Romania) Nomination - Best Editor Nomination - Best Actor

Dammi una Mano Lend a Hand (2016) 86 min. – Comedy / Drama Saturday, April 21 - 9:15 pm Jean Cocteau Cinema

Caterina is a young and well-known psychologist, her POSTER life is perfect: Love, job, family, friends are all that she wishes. But one day something happens which STILL PHOTOS threatens her happy but a little bit unconscious TRAILER existence. Her father dies, leaving her full of debts owing to her sister Viola who has gone through the SCREENER available upon request family property; a provincial scandal disgraces her reputation and she loses her job, her husband leaves AWARDS: her. For the first time Caterina must start all over

International New York Film again and begin a new life. A deeply different life Festival from the one she has always defended and loved. Best Costume/Wardrobe Design Award After a rocambolesque cheerful series of events she will discover that her deepest strength is this one: never to American Filmatic Arts Awards Best Foreign Comedy Feature stop, always being in motion, lifting her head up once Award more, trusting and leaning on those people, (such as Best Costume Design Award her friends Ludovica and Sara and her fragile sister European Cinematography Viola), who she had always thought she was to help. Awards Best Comedy Award DIRECTOR: Raffaella Covino IIFA-International Independent Film Award SCREENWRITER: Raffaella Covino | Vincenzo Terlizzi Costume Design Gold Award

Play Film Festival (Paris) CAST: Ilaria Falini | Marta Pellegrino | Olga Rossi | Best Feature Roberta Bistocchi | Francesco Bolo Rossini | Michele 2017 CICFF - Calcutta Nani | David Riondino | Silvia Fiorentini International Cult Film Festival Award Winner - “Outstanding Languages: Italian (English subtitles) Achievement Award” - Category “Debut Filmmakers”

Accolade Global Film Competition Award of Excellence

Hastings Film Fringe Finalist - Best Feature

Oniros Film Awards Finalist: Best Feature Best Comedy Best Costume Design Best Actress

AFC (Asian Film Centre) Global Fest Finalist - International Narrative Feature

Los Angeles Cinefest Semifinalist

Gatta Cenerentola Cinderella the Cat (2017) 86 min. – Animation / Crime / Thriller Saturday, April 21 - 4:30 pm Jean Cocteau Cinema

The classic fairytale gets an unexpectedly dark and hip update in this strikingly animated tale from the Italian directorial foursome Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri, Dario Sansone and Alessandro Rak (all

POSTER newcomers except for Rak, who earlier directed European Film Award winner The Art of Happiness).

STILL PHOTOS Set almost entirely aboard a retro-futuristic ship in the

harbor of Naples, the story re-imagines Cinderella as a TRAILER 17-year-old, vaguely emo-punk chick who's about to be SCREENER available upon married off to a megalomaniac drug dealer who request wants to turn Naples into the crime capital of the

AWARDS: world. Of course, there's an evil stepmother who's 2 wins, 1 nomination raising her own children as — what else? — cabaret

2018 David di Donatello Awards dancers, and also a heroic policeman who might be Won, Best Producer able to give this crazy, music-filled and intentionally - Luciano Stella & Maria Carolina Terzi somewhat chaotic ride a happy ending. Won, Best Digital Effects DIRECTOR: Ivan Cappiello | Marino Guarnieri | 2017 Venice Film Festival Nominated, Venice Horizons Alessandro Rak | Award Dario Sansone Best Film Dario Sansone, Ivan Cappiello, SCREENWRITER: Ivan Cappiello | Marianna Garofalo Marino Guarnieri, Alessandro | Marino Guarnieri | Corrado Morra (screenplay) | Rak Alessandro Rak | Dario Sansone | Italo Scialdone CAST: voices of Massimiliano Gallo | Maria Pia Calzone | Alessandro Gassman Languages: Italian (English subtitles)

Il Ragazzo Invisibile - Seconda Generazione Invisible Boy - Second Generation (2018) 100 min. – Action / Adventure / Comedy Friday, April 20 - 6 pm Jean Cocteau Cinema

Heroes meets X-Men, Gabriele Salvatores style! A new era of Italian action / adventure. Two years after its debut, the Invisible Boy is back with the second chapter of the saga, once again directed by Oscar-winner Gabriele Salvatores. The young POSTER superhero Michele is now 16 and is facing all the

STILL PHOTOS troubles of his age. However, it is hard to return to all of the problems this age demands after having TRAILER discovered you have super powers.

The Place (2017) 105 min. – Comedy / Drama Sunday, April 22 - 2:30 pm Jean Cocteau Cinema

A mysterious man sits every day at the same table of the same restaurant, accepting to grant his visitors’ biggest wishes and assigning them peculiar tasks to accomplish in return. What will they be ready to do to get what they want?

DIRECTOR: Paolo Genovese POSTER SCREENWRITER: Christopher Kubasik (original story) | Paolo Genovese (screenplay) | Isabella Aguilar STILL PHOTOS (screenplay) TRAILER CAST: Valerio Mastandrea | Marco Giallini | Alessandro Borghi | Silvio Muccino | Alba Rohrwacher SCREENER available upon Languages: Italian (English subtitles) request

Tutto Quello che Vuoi English Title: Friends by Chance (2017) 106 min. – Comedy / Drama Saturday, April 21 - 12:30 pm Jean Cocteau Cinema

Alessandro (Andrea Carpenzano) is a tempestuous young slacker and a source of endless frustration to his father. Giorgio (Giuliano Montaldo) is a former poet in the early stages of Alzheimer syndrome. The two live within a stone’s throw of one another, but their paths have never crossed until Alessandro is forced to POSTER … accompany the old man on his afternoon walks. Bruni STILL PHOTOS received a Nastri d’Argento Award for Best Screenplay for this heartwarming dramedy. TRAILER DIRECTOR: Francesco Bruni SCREENER available upon SCREENWRITER: Francesco Bruni request CAST: Andrea Carpenzano | Giuliano Montaldo AWARDS: Languages: Italian (English subtitles) 5 wins & 4 nominations

2018 David di Donatello Awards Won, Best Supporting Actor - Giuliano Montaldo Won, Youth David

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Nominated, Silver Ribbon Best Cinematography (Migliore Fotografia) Arnaldo Catinari

Nominated, Silver Ribbon Best Producer (Migliore Produttore) Beppe Caschetto

Nominated, Silver Ribbon Best Film (Miglior film)

Francesco Bruni

Won, Special Silver Ribbon Special Silver Ribbon Giuliano Montaldo

Won, Guglielmo Biraghi Award - Special Mention Andrea Carpenzano

Nominated, Silver Ribbon Best Sound (Miglior Sonoro in Presa Diretta) Gianluca Costamagna

Won, Silver Ribbon Best Screenplay (Migliore Sceneggiatura) Francesco Bruni

Shorts program Sunday, April 22 - 12:15 pm Jean Cocteau Cinema

FiSOlofia PhiSOlophy (2017) 17 min. – Comedy Short

Screening followed by Q&A with filmmaker

Three retired friends love to talk in a bar in their village. They do not talk about politics, sports or local gossip but are questioning on philosophical themes that will bring them to life in an animated way. The flashbacks of a more erudite narrator than others will open up surreal moments that trigger these new questions. Between doubts and certainties, between POSTER faith and reason, friends will reflect on the

STILL PHOTOS fundamental questions of existence.

DIRECTOR: Nicola Palmeri TRAILER SCREENWRITER: Nicola Palmeri

CAST: Antonello Puglisi | Domenico Centamore | SCREENER available upon request Stefano Chiodaroli Languages: Italian (English subtitles) AWARDS: MedFF Best Mediterranean Short

2018 Maazzeni Film Festival Grand Jury Special Award

Florindo e Carlotta - La Vita Segreta delle Chiocciole Florindo and Carlotta - The Secret Life of Snails (2018) 15 min. – Short

Florindo is a disabled poet who has come to collect a prize of poetry in a village forgotten by the world. Carlotta is a prostitute who works on one of the endless streets of these desolate places and lives in an old farmhouse with coworkers, extravagant characters and failed artists. Their meeting will change both their lives. A letter of eviction arrives to the farmhouse.

POSTER Panic. They are all stragglers, without work or hope. Florindo shows Carlotta the poster of a competition STILL PHOTOS with a prize in cash that could help them to buy the farmhouse. She doesn’t believe they can participate: a TRAILER disabled person in a wheelchair and one like her, a prostitute. They quarrel and interrupt their friendship. SCREENER available upon request An unexpected episode leads them to meet again and now they decide to participate in the competition, with unexpected results.

DIRECTOR: Rossella Bergo SCREENWRITER: Rossella Bergo | Nicoletta Canazza CAST: Cristiano Neri | Rossella Bergo Languages: Italian (English subtitles)

Io Non Le Credo I Don’t Believe You (2017) 9 min. – Horror / Thriller / Noir / Paranormal Short

An exorcist is called to check if the home of a vulnerable community resident is really infested, but things will not go in the right way...

DIRECTOR: Luca Bertossi SCREENWRITER: Luca Bertossi CAST: Stefano Mussinano | Sebastiano Zoletto | Mariacristina Barbetti Languages: Italian (English subtitles) POSTER

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2017 Oniros Film Awards Best Horror - October 2017

Short Polis Film Festival Special Mention - Atmosphere

Il Profumo delle Stelle Scent of the Stars (2017) 12 min. – Drama Short

Nino, out of the madhouse after thirty years, finds himself incapable of living otherwise. Just as Adriano, a hospital doctor, shot home from his wife and also unable to find the courage to face life. They all will find the meaning of small things again.

DIRECTOR: Francesco Felli SCREENWRITER: Francesco Felli POSTER CAST: Alessandro Habert | Giorgio Colangeli Languages: Italian (English subtitles) STILL PHOTOS

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Verso Casa The Way Home (2017) 26 min. – Drama Short

Michele is a Sardinian kid, fatherless, exuberant and rebellious. One morning he skips school and reaches a coastal town, apparently deserted. He wanders through the streets of the city, has an accident, gets scared and goes back home. He asks his mother for help, but she ignores him. He runs away and roams, lonely and abandoned, as a stray dog, through ruins and wild paths, pushing himself further away from the sea. Exhausted, he descends a gorge carved in red POSTER rock, at the end of which he commits a violence that

STILL PHOTOS will change him forever.

TRAILER DIRECTOR: Federico Olivetti

Volevamo Fare U’Cinema We Wanted to Make Pictures (2017) 14 min. – Comedy Short

Paolo and Davor, the former Calabrian, the latter Serbian, have one aim in life: to make pictures. What unites them, other than their obvious ineptitude, is a passionate love for a great master: Marco Bellocchio. And so one day, between one hit on the bong and another, Paolo reads in a magazine that Marco … Bellocchio is going to shoot his next film in Bobbio! POSTER They have to go there, meet him and, whatever it takes, discover the secret to Making Pictures! STILL PHOTOS DIRECTOR: Nicolò Gentili SCREENER available upon SCREENWRITER: Nicolò Gentili request CAST: Marco Bellocchio | Pier Giorgio Bellocchio | Daniele Cipri’ | Gianni Schicchi | Paolo Porchi | Davor Marinkovic Languages: Italian | Serbian (English subtitles)