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FILM 2016 - FESTIVAL 20 APRIL - 1 MAY

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Proudly sponsored by SCHEDULE 20 April | Wednesday 6.30 pm An Italian Name National Museum of Singapore, (Il nome del figlio) Gallery Theatre (BY INVITATION ONLY) 21 April | Thursday 6.50 pm An Italian Name GV Plaza (Il nome del figlio) 22 April | FRIday 7 pm Mafia & Red Tomatoes GV Plaza (La nostra terra) 22 April | FRIday 9 pm God Willing GV Plaza (Se Dio vuole) 23 April | Saturday 2pm I Mostri National Museum of Singapore, Gallery Theatre

23 April | Saturday 4.30 pm Blood of My Blood GV Plaza (Sangue del mio sangue) 23 April | Saturday 7 pm My Mother () GV Plaza

23 April | Saturday 9 pm An Italian Name GV Plaza (Il nome del figlio) 24 April | Sunday 2 pm National Museum of Singapore, (Rocco e i suoi fratelli) Gallery Theatre 24 April | Sunday 4.20 pm Italo GV Plaza 24 April | Sunday 6.45 pm Wondrous Boccaccio GV Plaza (Maraviglioso Boccaccio) 24 April | Sunday 9 pm Mafia & Red Tomatoes GV Plaza (La nostra terra)

25 April | Monday 7 pm Italo GV Plaza 25 April | Monday 9 pm My Mother (Mia madre) GV Plaza 26 April | TUESday 7 pm First Light GV Plaza (La prima luce) 26 April | TUESday 9 pm Blood of My Blood GV Plaza (Sangue del mio sangue) 27 April | WEDNESDAY 7 pm Wondrous Boccaccio GV Plaza (Maraviglioso Boccaccio) 1 May | Sunday 2 pm 8 1/2 (OTTO E MEZZO) The Projector

Box Office machines, AXS Stations and online at www. Sessions will start punctually at the indicated times. gv.com.sg. Tickets at Films rated R21 are suitable for persons aged 21 and Tickets for the screenings at the National Museum of above; M18 - suitable for persons aged 18 and above; Singapore (93 Stamford Road, S 178897) are available NC16 - suitable for persons aged 16 and above; ONLY online at: www.apactix.com. PG13 - suitable for persons aged 13 and above but S$ 13.00 parental guidance is advised for children below 13; (S$ 12.00 for members of the Italian Cultural Institute, Tickets for the screening at The Projector (#05-00 PG - suitable for all, but parents should guide their Italian Association of Singapore and Singapore Golden Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road, S 199589) are young; G- suitable for all ages. Film Society members, upon presentation of a valid available online at: http://theprojector.sg membership card in person at Box offices. Limited to Proof of age is required at the point of purchase and For more information visit: www.iicsingapore.esteri. one discounted ticket per member per session). at the point of admission. The organizers reserve it, www.gv.com.sg, www.apactix.com and www. the right to refuse admission if such proof cannot be Festival tickets are on sale from 7 April. nationalmuseum.sg. produced. The National Museum will offer for each Tickets to the screenings at Golden Village Plaza Information provided in this booklet is correct at purchased ticket one free ticket to the history Gallery (#07-01 Plaza Singapura, 68 Orchard Road, S 238839) the time of printing and subject to change due to and special exhibitions to all Italian Film Festival are available at all GV box offices, via iGV app, digital circumstances beyond the festival organiser’s control. ticketholders. Paolo Crudele Ambassador of to Singapore

Opening the Italian Film with the Singapore and bridge differences Festival is always a great International film by finding common occasion to celebrate Festival from its very denominators and themes. Italian cinema and present beginning. As a matter of I believe that there is no to Singaporeans not only a fact, the Italian Film festival better way to celebrate the selection of the top films was initially a special strong cultural relationship produced and released in “section” of the renowned between our two countries Italy last year, but also a Singapore International than by presenting a glance of contemporary Film Festival. The strong week-long programme Italy through the filmic eye. demand for Italian cinema that features a popular has lead the Italian cultural combination of the best in Since the very beginning of Institute to launch its own contemporary Italian cinema the Republic of Singapore Festival in 2003 in order to balanced with a celebration in 1965, the Italian bring a rich and diversified of Italy’s unparalleled movie Embassy has strived to program to Singaporean heritage. bring the very best of movie-goers that have Italian music, art, cinema always responded very My thanks and appreciation and theatre to Singapore, positively to the festival. go to the Italian Cultural and has continued with Hence, the IFF has become Institute in Singapore as this commitment with a yearly tradition in well as the Cinematèque the establishment of a Singapore and has been of the National Museum permanent Italian Cultural running for the past 14 of Singapore and the Institute in 1989. In the field years featuring the finest of Singapore Film Society for of cinema, the Embassy Italian cinematography. organizing this 14th Edition and the Cultural Institute of the Italian Film Festival. have a long history of Cinema remains the most collaborating with the immediate medium to bring Have a great week of Italian Singapore Film Society and together diverse cultures cinema. Veronica Manson Director Italian Cultural Institute

W elcome to the 14th Edition tender story of boy of the Italian Film Festival in and his dog in “Italo” by Singapore. The idea behind Alessia Scarso and, finally, this year’s film selection is to “First Light” by Vincenzo present a showcase of Italian Marra an intense story that movies to the Singaporean the portrays the difficulties of audience, all movies which struggle an international divorce and have won awards or were of a custody battle. official entries in the woman film This year, in addition to major international film director juggling these contemporary Italian festivals over the past 12 work and family. movies, the Festival features months. Each movie in this From the Venice also a Classic Section with year’s program has won or Film Festival – where three beautifully restored participated in major film it won the prestigious masterpieces: “Rocco and festivals worldwide. Some International Federation of his Brothers” by Luchino say we are witnessing Film Critics Award – Marco Visconti, “I mostri”, by Dino a new “renaissance” of Bellocchio presents “Blood Risi, a fine example of Italian cinema, as Italian of my Blood”. The festival desecratory 1960’s Italian filmmakers are reaping continues with “Wondrous comedy and a special awards in Berlin (2016), Boccaccio” by the famed screening of “8 and ½” Cannes (2015) and Venice Vittorio and Paolo Taviani by Federico Fellini, co- (2015) just to name a few. in their latest Tuscan- presented with the Institut Italian cinema is very much based tale inspired by the Francais de Singapour on alive and well, bringing medieval masterpiece the occasion of the 120 years emerging and well-known “Decameron” by Boccaccio. of Gaumont, which was the film directors into the “Mafia and Red Tomatoes” co-producer of the film. international spotlight. by Giulio Manfredonia is a While expressing my The opening film is “An drama based on the real- gratitude to this year’s Italian Name” by Francesca life work of a young farming Partners (the Singapore Archibugi, winner of Italy’s cooperative in the Puglia National Museum, GV “Best New Director” Award region battling a ruthless Multiplex, and the Singapore 2015. The story is an local mafia clan. This Film Society), I would also uncanny portrayal of the year’s line-up also includes like to extend thanks to psychological dynamics that “God Willing” by Edoardo our generous Sponsors for affect friends and family Falcone, who also won making this special edition when facing surprising Best New Italian Director of the festival possible in news. The other Italian in 2015. This box office hopes that this edition of films featured in the Festival success tells the hilarious the Italian Film Festival include: “My Mother”, winner story of an atheist surgeon, will entertain and connect of the Ecumenical Jury at a charismatic priest and you with Italy through its the Cannes film festival a dysfunctional family. cinema. 2015, by renowned film Completing the program, Buona visione; Enjoy the director about the Festival features the movies! AN ITALIAN NAME (IL NOME DEL FIGLIO)

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21 April | Thursday 6.50 pm 23 April | Saturday 9 pm GV Plaza

2015, 94 mins, Comedy English subtitles Rating: NC16 (some coarse language)

Cast: Rocco Papaleo The extrovert Paolo and the beautiful Simona are expecting. At a dinner with Betta and Sandro, the refined and literate couple, and Claudio, the eccentric musician, one question will lead to an argument that will shake up the night: the name of Paolo and Simona’s son. MAFIA & RED TOMATOES (LA NOSTRA TERRA)

By Giulio Manfredonia

22 April | Friday 7 pm 24 April | Sunday 9 pm GV Plaza

2014, 100 mins, Comedy English subtitles Rating: PG13 (some coarse language)

Cast: Maria Rosaria Russo Nicola Rignanese Giovanni Calcagno Planting tomatoes may seem safe enough, except when that activity is conducted on land confiscated from mafia bosses. The land is given to an agriculture co-op of young, idealistic and utterly inexperienced group of farmers. The co-op is boycotted daily by the local mafia so much so that the government’s Anti-Mafia Board sends Federico, a competent lawyer with no field experience. Federico is petrified at first by the gigantic task he faces, but he is inspired thanks to the courage and passion of the mismatched members of the co-op. Based on the real-life work of the association “Libera” (Free), the film tackles these issues with a smile and redemptive joy. GOD WILLING (SE DIO VUOLE)

By Edoardo Falcone

22 April | Friday 9 pm GV Plaza

2015, 87 mins, Comedy English subtitles Rating: PG13 (some sexual references)

Cast: Alessandro Gassmann Ilaria Spada Enrico Oetiker Tommaso is a respected • Best New Director – heart surgeon, married Awards with two children. One 2015 day, the oldest son • Festival du Cinema decides to gather his Italien de Bastia 2016: En family and takes the Compétition courage to open up: Prix du Public “I met a person who • Annecy Cinema Italien changed my life and 2015: Competition Fiction that person is Jesus. Films This is why I decided to Audience Award, Best become a priest!” For Actor (Marco Giallini) Tommaso, an atheist, • Tokyo International Film having a priest as a Festival 2015: Competition son is a terrible blow. Audience Award The announcement • Villerupt Italian Film leads father and son on a hilarious journey of Festival 2015: Compétition mutual discovery. Amilcar du Public, Mention spéciale du Jury Jeunes I MOSTRI

By Dino Risi Punctuated by a perfect pace and fierce and 23 April | Saturday 2 pm withering incisiveness, National Museum of Singapore, I mostri offers a panorama of Italianness Gallery Theatre in its variations of semi-criminal cunning, 1963 , (b/w), 118 mins, Comedy hypocrisy, cynicism, English subtitles oiliness, opportunism, Rating: PG13 (some sexual references) exploitation and systematic deception Cast: of others. The deadly sins of a humanity greedy for prosperity Lando Buzzanca (these are the boom years) are described without indulgence or complacency, and with the perfect measure of a black and bitter humor. Ugo Tognazzi and Vittorio Gassman, at times victims and at times executioners, are extraordinary both in their histrionics shades and with the nuances they give their characters. Among the most memorable episodes are La nobile arte, with a clobbered boxer played by Gassman and the simian vulture-manager by Tognazzi, L’oppio dei popoli on the already devastating effects of television, La giornata dell’onorevole in which Tognazzi, a Christian Democrat minister, succeeds in neutralizing an old gentleman who had come to report a wrongdoing, using a strategy of never- ending and Kafkaesque antechambers. Source: 72nd Venice International Film Festival

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23 April | Saturday 4.30 pm 26 April | Tuesday 9 pm GV Plaza

2015, 106 mins, Drama English subtitles M18 (nudity)

Cast: Roberto Herlitzka Pier Giorgio Bellocchio Lidiya Liberman Fausto Russo Alesi Alba Rohrwacher Federico, a young priest, The present-day Bobbio is summoned by the prison is run-down 17th Century Inquisition and abandoned. Tax to a convent prison in investigator Federico the town of Bobbio. His is helping a Russian mission is to coerce millionaire buy the old Sister Benedetta to ruin. But a secretive confess that she has old man has been seduced and driven living there for years. to death her previous He is only occasionally confessor, Federico’s seen out at night, and brother. is referred to as “The Benedetta must undergo Count”. Federico needs three trials - water, fire to prove the man is a and tears - to prove her fraud to make the big innocence if she does sale not confess. Federico, too, falls under the La Biennale di Venezia spell of the hypnotic 2015: Venezia 72 - Benedetta. FIPRESCI Prize MY MOTHER (MIA MADRE)

By Nanni Moretti

23 April | Saturday 7 pm 25 April | Monday 9 pm GV Plaza

2015, 107 mins, Drama English subtitles PG13 (some coarse language)

Cast: John Turturro Nanni Moretti Beatrice Mancini Margherita is a director shooting a film with the famous American actor, Barry Huggins, who is quite a headache on set. Away from the shoot, Margherita tries to hold her life together, despite her mother’s illness and her daughter’s adolescence.

• Cannes 2015, Official Competition, Ecumenical Jury Prize

• David Di Donatello Award, Best Actress (Margherita Buy) and Best Supporting Actress (Giulia Lazzarini) ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS (ROCCO E I SUOI FRATELLI)

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24 April | Sunday 2 pm National Museum of Singapore, Gallery Theatre

1960, (b/w), 180 mins English subtitles Rating: PG13 (some violence)

Cast: Alain Delon Renato Salvatori Operatic in scope, Katina Paxinou and artfully blending Annie Girardot emotionalism and Roger Hanin realism, Luchino Paolo Stoppa Visconti’s “Rocco e i Suzy Delair suoi fratelli” (1960) was inspired by the migration of southern families to northern Italian cities, often resulting in the dissolution of family relationships and values. The film explores themes of family, jealousy, loyalty, sexuality, sin, and forgiveness, against a socio-political backdrop of economic disparity and evolving concepts of masculinity. Exquisitely photographed by legendary cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno, the film follows five brothers and their anxious mother as they adapt to the city’s harsh realities. Two of the young men, Rocco (Alain Delon) and Simone (Renato Salvatori), become involved with the same woman, a prostitute named Nadia (Annie Girardot), with tragic results. Source: 68th Cannes Film Festival

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By Alessia Scarso

24 April | Sunday 4.20 pm 25 April | Monday 7 pm GV Plaza

2015, 104 mins, Family English subtitles PG

Cast: Marco Bocci Elena Radonicich, Barbara Tabita Lucia Sardo Based on a true story, 10 year-old, who is as Italo Barocco vividly lonely and introverted as depicts the life-altering can be. Since his mother friendship between an passed away Meno extraordinary dog and has shut everyone out, a lonely child. One day, including his workaholic a good natured stray father. It will take all dog by the name of the unconditional love Italo, wanders into the a special dog like Italo small Sicilian town of can give to force Meno Scicli. But Italo’s arrival out of his shell, leading causes a terrible uproar him into a series of in the village, everyone adventures that will there is fiercely opposed teach him the difference to having stray dogs between acting like a around. grown up and actually Everyone except Meno, becoming one. a precociously wise WONDROUS BOCCACCIO (MARAVIGLIOSO BOCCACCIO)

By Paolo & Vittorio Taviani

24 April | Sunday 6.45 pm 27 April | Wednesday 7 pm GV Plaza

2015, 121 min, Comedy/Drama/History English subtitles M18 (some mature content and nudity)

Cast: Michele Riondino Lello Arena

Florence, Italy, 1348. As the plague ravages the city dwellers of Tuscany, a group of young men and women takes shelter in a remote villa in the hills surrounding Florence. Now living as a community, they decide to tell each other a story a day to take their minds off their precarious situation. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani return after Cesar must die (2012, Golden Berlin Bear) to celebrate the power of youth, love and poetry in a colourful adaptation of The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, a masterpiece of classical Italian literature. Images courtesy of: copyright “Umberto Montiroli” FIRST LIGHT (LA PRIMA LUCE)

By Vincenzo Marra

26 April | Tuesday 7 pm GV Plaza

2015, 108 mins, Drama English subtitles PG13 (some coarse language)

Cast: Riccardo Scamarcio Daniela Ramirez Gianni Pezzolla Luis Gnecco Alejandro Goic Marco and Martina are a seemingly happy couple, with a beautiful eight year old, Mateo. But Martina is longing to leave Italy—and Marco—for a different life, back in her native Chile. Martina abruptly departs for South America, deciding to take along her son Mateo, against the father’s will.

La Biennale di Venezia 2015: Giornate degli Autori Venice Days, Official Selection Special Pasinetti Prize 8 1/2 (OTTO E MEZZO) By Federico Fellini (French and Italian co-production)

1 May | Sunday 2pm The Projector Cast: 1963, 135 mins, Drama English subtitles PG Claudia Cardinale

Jointly presented by Institut Français Singapour – French Embassy and Italian Culture Institute Singapore In conjunction with Gaumont exhibition at National Design Centre Celebrating the 120 years of Gaumont

Guido Anselmi (Marcello and write the screenplay Mastroianni) is at a for his next film, his crisis point in his life vices become clear: and his work; in the Guido is self-absorbed, opening sequence, Guido, and he’s distracted by suffocating, is caught in the fabulous cast of traffic with the windows actresses, intellectuals, of his car locked shut. and eccentrics who have He climbs out of the joined him at the spa. sunroof and literally rises Additionally he struggles up over the highway into with Freudian complexes Part of: the clouds, seemingly about his wife (Anouk free, when he realizes Aime), his lover (Sandro there’s a rope tied around Milo), his ideal woman his ankle that is violently (Claudia Cardinale), and pulling him back to his dead parents; and his earth. Cutting from this repressive Catholic guilt dream to the health spa follows him everywhere where Guido is trying to like a haunting mist. recapture his creativity

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