www.studioitalia.co.nz 2019 Whakatane 3 - 8 September Christchurch 11 - 20 June Matakana 6 -14 September Nelson 14 - 28 June Cambridge 10 - 15 September Tauranga 5 - 15 July Taupo 13 - 19 September Napier 25 - 31 July Auckland 17 - 30 September Havelock North 30 July - 11 August Wellington 6 - 18 November Masterton 7 - 12 August New Plymouth 8 - 14 November Martinborough 8 - 15 August 2020 Arrowtown 21 - 25 August Waiheke 9 -15 January web: cinemaitalianonz.com facebook: cinemaitalianofestivalnz instagram: @italianfilmsnz Contents De Sica Naming Sponsor Proudly Supported by Fellini Sponsors Visconti Sponsors Business Amici Benvenuti / Welcome 04 Luoghi / Locations 06 Cinema / Films 08 UNSCRIPTED Programma / Schedule 40 Ticketing Info 53 Amici Ringraziamenti / Acknowledgements 55 ONDAZZURRA PLANETFM 104.6 Technology Partners Proud Technical Support Specialists of the Studio Italia Cinema Italiano Festival. Benvenuti / Welcome 5 AMBASCIATORE fostering, through films, a deeper AUCKLAND THE STUDIO ITALIA CINEMA Our perception of the past, STUDIO ITALIA PEOPLE’S FABRIZIO MARCELLI understanding of the cultural, FESTIVAL ITALIANO 2018 ITALIANO FESTIVAL the present and the future has CHOICE AWARD AMBASSADOR OF ITALY linguistic and socio-political so often been shaped by the The Studio Italia Cinema Italiano We are immensely proud to Email your favourite film choice context we live in, engaging films we have seen. Living so far It is my great pleasure to present Festival 2019 once again kicks announce Studio Italia as our from our 2019 curation to audiences with the Italian society, from Italy, my connection to my another edition of The Cinema off ‘THE ITALIAN SEASON’ first ‘Naming Sponsor’. [email protected] lifestyle and traditions. This is why culture has been nurtured and Italiano Festival, organised by in Auckland, culminating in the I am glad the Embassy of Italy in Italian Cinema has always maintained through the images, Tell us where and when you viewed Renee Mark and Paolo Rotondo. ‘Festival Italiano’ - New Zealand’s Wellington could support it, in celebrated design, architecture, ideas and themes I have seen on it, and you will go in the draw to This fourth year programme is largest, and immensely popular, keeping with our role of advocate style and passion. the silver screen. I hope to curate win a prize from Studio Italia. richer, more diverse and will reach Italian street event on October for Italian Culture on this side of this Festival in such a way as to audiences in 16 cities throughout 20, Osborne Street, Kent Street Studio Italia’s exceptional taste, Draw will be at our final the world. accurately, or at least thoughtfully, New Zealand across 10 months, and Rialto Centre, Newmarket quality and unparalleled selection screening Waiheke Cinema represent Italian culture, to keep with a great selection of comedies, I hope all lovers of Italian films of Italian Furniture, Kitchens, 15 January 2020. www.festivalitaliano.co.nz me connected. In order to dramas, documentaries and will take advantage of this unique Wardrobes and Design represent represent the complexity of facebook: cinemaitalianofestivalnz cherished classics. chance, buona visione! the finest Italian craftsmanship and innovation. Italian culture through Cinema, instagram: @italianfilmsnz The Festival provides yet another Ambassador Fabrizio Marcelli I strive to create a Festival that is #italianfilmsnz #cinemaitalianonz great opportunity to strengthen Benvenuti a Bordo. rich, varied, interesting, appealing, the cultural relationship between accessible and also challenging. Italy and New Zealand, while MESSAGGIO FROM THE Now that we screen the Festival ARTISTIC DIRECTOR in 16 different centres, we hope to I believe cinema can be a truly become an important part of transformative artform, it certainly New Zealand’s cultural landscape. has been for me. Cinema has been Paolo Rotondo – Artistic Director a part of most of our lives for as long as we can remember. Luoghi / Locations THE SCREENING ROOM STARLIGHT CINEMA MASTERTON TAUPO AUGUST 7 – 12 SEPTEMBER 13 – 19 435 Queen Street Starlight Arcade Masterton 5810 26 Horomatangi Street 06 378 6191 Taupo ACADEMY GOLD thescreeningroom.co.nz 07 377 1085 CHRISTCHURCH starlightcinema.co.nz JUNE 11 – 20 CIRCUS CINEMA The Colombo MARTINBOROUGH BRIDGEWAY CINEMA 22/363 Colombo St AUGUST 8 – 15 AUCKLAND Sydenham, 34 Jellicoe Street SEPTEMBER 17 – 30 Christchurch 8023 Martinborough 122 Queen St 03 377 9913 Wairarapa 5711 Northcote Point artfilms.co.nz 06 306 9442 Auckland 0627 circus.net.nz 09 481 0040 SUTER THEATRE bridgeway.co.nz NELSON DOROTHY BROWNS JUNE 14 – 28 ARROWTOWN EMPIRE CINEMA Queens Gardens AUGUST 21 – 25 WELLINGTON 208 Bridge St 18 Buckingham St NOVEMBER 6 – 18 Nelson 7010 Arrowtown 9302 214 The Parade 03 548 3885 03 442 1964 Island Bay suter.statecinemas.co.nz dorothybrowns.com Wellington 6023 RIALTO TAURANGA WHAKAMAX WHAKATANE 04 939 7557 empirecinema.nz JULY 5 – 15 SEPTEMBER 3 – 8 21 Devonport Rd 99 The Strand GOVETT BREWSTER Tauranga 3110 Whakatane 3120 NEW PLYMOUTH 07 577 0445 07 308 7625 rialtotauranga.co.nz whakamax.co.nz NOVEMBER 8 – 14 The Len Lye Centre Cinema GLOBE THEATRETTE MATAKANA CINEMAS 42 Queen Street NAPIER MATAKANA New Plymouth 4310 06 759 6060 JULY 25 – 31 SEPTEMBER 6 – 14 govett-brewster.com/cinema 15 Hardinge Rd 2 Matakana Valley Rd Ahuriri, Napier 4110 Matakana 0985 WAIHEKE CINEMA 06 833 6011 09 423 0218 WAIHEKE matakanacinemas.co.nz globenapier.co.nz JANUARY 9 – 15 EVENT HAVELOCK TIVOLI CINEMAS 127-129 Oceanview Rd CAMBRIDGE Oneroa, Auckland 1081 NORTH 09 372 4240 JULY 30 – AUGUST 11 SEPTEMBER 10 – 15 waihekecinema.co.nz 11 Joll Rd 32 Lake Street Havelock North Leamington 06 877 9016 Cambridge 3434 eventcinemas.co.nz/cinema/ 07 823 5064 havelock-north tivolicinema/cambridge.co.nz www.edit-store.com La Famiglia è il Centro di Noi / Family is at the Heart of Us La Famiglia è il Centro di Noi / differences, or up through the allowed me to harvest this theme Family is at the Heart of Us stratified social orders, family from so many films. I believe that has been central to Italian the attitudes and values around Chi si volta, è chi si gira, sempre a family remain one of the great casa va finire culture. This year, the selection is profoundly infused with the cultural assets of Italian society. No matter where you go, or which myriad manifestations of how The curation this year, is a way you turn, you will always end family shapes everything in Italy. wonderful exploration of ‘famiglia’ up at home Without exception, every film in in so many different ways. For millennia, ‘family’ has been the the Festival this year, has in some most important social construct aspect, family at the centre of it. in Italian society. Even across It is perhaps my own perspective, such diverse cultural regional or age and stage, that has Curation: La Famiglia è il Centro di Noi / Family is at the Heart of Us 10 11 I cannot imagine a more prestigious ensemble cast in contemporary Italian cinema, A CASA all depicting one colourful family. The occasion is the 50th wedding anniversary TUTTI BENE celebration of the grandparents of a large Southern Italian family. Parents, children, cousins, brothers, aunties, uncles and in-laws gather on the gorgeous island of / THERE’S NO Ischia in the Bay of Naples. Great laughs, family sing-alongs, wonderful meals and burgeoning romances soon begin to reveal hidden complex layers. As bad weather PLACE LIKE traps them on the island, the fun begins to give way to ancient, unresolved tensions and new dramatic undercurrents. The Italian title loosely translated as HOME ‘Everything is fine at home’, perfectly encapsulates the irony, drama and humour in this beautifully crafted film. Director, Gabriele Muccino (Perfect Strangers Director: Gabriele Muccino CIF17), is certainly one of the most exciting Directors in Italian cinema right now. Cast: Stefano Accorsi, Pierfrancesco Muccino’s balance of this impressive ensemble is delicate, effortless and deftly Favino, Valeria Solarino, Stefania handled. Entertaining, intelligent and gorgeous, I really loved this film because it Sandrelli, Claudia Gerini, Elena Cucci, Giulia Michelini, Carolina Crescentini rings true to the joy and pain that families bring us. It resonated with me even more because I used to holiday on the Island of Ischia when I was a child. Country: Italy, 2018 Genre: Comedy, Drama Paolo Rotondo, Artistic Director Rating: M From the writer of 2016 Cinema Italiano Festival NZ highlight Perfect Strangers. Duration: 105mins An enviable assemblage of Italy’s finest talent including Pierfrancesco Favino (The Confessions CIF17, Wife & Husband CIF18), Stefano Accorsi (Italian Race Language: Italian with English Subtitles CIF17) and screen icon Stefania Sandrelli (The Conformist CIF16). Brought to you by: StudioItalia AWARDS Mad Joker armchair designed by Marcel Wanders Winner Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Golden Ciak Awards 2018 Winner Special Nastri D’Argento Award Best Cast, Nastri D’Argento Awards 2018 Winner Audience Award, David di Donatello Awards 2019 Nominated Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Producer, Nastri D’Argento Awards 2018 “Muccino excels at transferring to the audience the tension that an extended family gathering brings with it.” Grazia Italy Curation: La Famiglia è il Centro di Noi / Family is at the Heart of Us Curation: La Famiglia è il Centro di Noi / Family is at the Heart of Us 12 13 ALL EYES ON YOU. A hazy mountain village, a tight-knit community, an enigmatic detective. LA RAGAZZA Donato Carrisi makes his directorial debut with this riveting adaptation NELLA NEBBIA of his best-selling eponymous novel, The Girl in the Fog, which sold over three million copies worldwide and made him one of Italy’s most beloved / THE GIRL IN thriller authors. THE FOG Winner of Best New Director at the 2018 Italian Academy Awards, The Girl in the Fog brings us to a remote mountain village where the Director: Donato Carrisi inscrutable Detective Vogel (Toni Servillo, also in The Confession CIF16, and Cast: Toni Servillo, Jean Reno, Let Yourself Go! CIF18) is investigating the sudden disappearance of a teenage 431 BILLBOARDS.