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Cinema Italia Oggi 2018 with EN subtitles
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CINEMA ITALIA OGGI 2018
- Italian films festiwal
April 9-13, 2018
Kino Pod Baranami
Cinema Italia Oggi - Italian films festival organised by Italian Cultural Institute and Cinecittà Luce has started at Kino Pod Baranami. On screen award-winning film productions, appreciated both by the viewers, as well as film critics around the world. Selected films will be presented in original version with both Polish and English subtitles.
At this year’s edition of Cinema Italia Oggi the viewers in Krakow will see moving stories about love and human connection and cheer on the protagonists in their struggle to turn their lives around. Among many others, the programme includes a comedy-drama directed by Francesca Comencini. Her Stories of Love That Cannot Belong To This World present two people looking for a new beginning after ending a long-term relationship. In Made in Italy director and musician Luciano Ligabue created his alter ego - a middle-aged man, whose stable life and marriage seems to be falling apart. The film stars Stefano Accorsi (The Young Pope TV series) and a Polish actress Kasia Smutniak (Perfect Strangers). Paolo Taviani’s war drama Rainbow - A Private Affair tells a story of an Italian partisan forced to choose between fighting for the Resistance and his obsession with a girl he has fallen for. The audience gathered at Kino Pod Baranami will witness the power of first love during the screening of Sicilian Ghost Story by Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza. It is a tale about Luna, a brave girl smitten with her handsome classmate, who ventures into the enchanted forests trying to solve the mystery of his strange disappearance. Francesco Bruni’s Friends by Chance is a multi-layered portrayal of an unexpected friendship between an elderly poet suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and a young man helping him retrieve his memories.
Selected films of the review will be presented with English subtitles. To see the full programme, click HERE.
PROGRAMME - films with English subtitles:
Monday, April 9th
19.15 FRIENDS BY CHANCE | TUTTO QUELLO CHE VUOI
dir. Francesco Bruni, Italy 2017, 106'
21.15 SICILIAN GHOST STORY | SICILIAN GHOST STORY
dir. Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza, Italy/France/Switzerland 2016, 122’
Tuesday, April 10th
19.15 RAINBOW - A PRIVATE AFFAIR | UNA QUESTIONE PRIVATA
dir. Paolo Taviani, Italy/France 2017, 84'
Wednesday, April 11th
19.15 STORIES OF LOVE THAT CANNOT BELONG TO THIS WORLD
| AMORI CHE NON SANNO STARE AL MONDO
dir. Francesca Comencini, Italy 2017, 92'
Friday, April 13th
21.15 MADE IN ITALY | MADE IN ITALY
dir. Luciano Ligabue, Italy 2018, 100'
TICKETS:
22 PLN (regular) | 15 PLN (discount)
ABOUT THE FILMS:
FRIENDS BY CHANCE | TUTTO QUELLO CHE VUOI
dir. Francesco Bruni, Italy 2017, 106'
David di Donatello Awards 2018: Best Supporting Actor (Giuliano Montaldo)
Alessandro is a 22-year-old turbulent and ignorant slacker from Trastevere, in Rome. He has lost his mother when he was two, and has become the torment of his father – a peddler in Porta Portese, the local flea-market – who can’t imagine a future for that idle and furious son, and is unable to find the key to his heart.
Giorgio is eighty-five: he is a forgotten poet, who lives in solitude and restraint in a flat on the Gianicolo Hill, with the only help and care of his landlady and neighbor. He is in an early stage of the Alzheimer syndrome: he can still move, but his mind is drifting relentlessly away from the present.
The two live within a stone’s throw from one another, but their paths have never crossed, and couldn’t be more distant. But this story puts them together, when Alessandro is offered to accompany the old man in his afternoon walks, and is forced to accept the job.
MADE IN ITALY | MADE IN ITALY
dir. Luciano Ligabue, Italy 2018, 100'
Riko is fifty years old, he was born and raised in a small town in the region of Emilia Romania. He works in a cured meats factory, like his father, and he lives in his family home with his wife Sara. He's a decent man, trying to make a living with a job he did not choose, abiding by the social rules of the local community. He knows he can always count on his friends and his wife, whom he loves dearly. However, Riko is also full of anger, frustrated with the times he is forced to live in. When his life takes an unexpected turn and Riko loses his ground, he realizes he needs to find a way to a new beginning.
RAINBOW - A PRIVATE AFFAIR | UNA QUESTIONE PRIVATA
dir. Paolo Taviani, Italy/France 2017, 84'
Summer 1943, Piedmont, Italy. Milton loves Fulvia who plays with his love: she only likes the depth of his thought and the letters he writes to her. One year later, he joins the Resistance and fights beside other partisans. He learns during a conversation that Fulvia was secretly in love with his friend Giorgio, a partisan like him. He decides to go find Giorgio in the Langhe region and its misty hills… But Giorgio has just been arrested by the Fascists.
SICILIAN GHOST STORY | SICILIAN GHOST STORY
dir. Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza, Italy/France/Switzerland 2016, 122’
David di Donatello 2018 Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay (Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza)
Sundance Film Festival 2016: Sundance Institute/Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists 2017: Silver Ribbon for the Best Direction (Antonio Piazza, Fabio Grassadonia), Best Cinematography (Luca Bigazzi) and Best Production Design
In a little Sicilian village at the edge of a forest, Giuseppe, a boy of 13, vanishes. Luna, his classmate who loves him, refuses to accept his mysterious disappearance. She rebels against the silence and complicity that surround her, and to find him she descends into the dark world which has swallowed him up and which has a lake as its mysterious entrance. Only their indestructible love will be able to bring her back along.
STORIES OF LOVE THAT CANNOT BELONG TO THIS WORLD
| AMORI CHE NON SANNO STARE AL MONDO
dir. Francesca Comencini, Italy 2017, 92'
Locarno IFF 2017: nominated for Variety Piazza Grande
Claudia and Flavio loved one another for a long time. When it all ended, all they see is a world adrift, like. For Claudia the end of their relationship was so traumatic, she seems to be unable to move on. Flavio however is ready to start a new chapter in his life. He meets Giorgia and just a moment between them is all it takes. A turning point in Claudia’s life is also on the horizon. She and Nina already knew one another from university, but are divided by their role, their ages, and the idea that respect would never turn to love. And yet Nina is absolutely beautiful, seductive and marvellous. Now her embrace is ravenous, and has a power that no woman can escape.
