September 27 – November 1, 2025
Angelico Concert Hall, 20 Olive Avenue, San Rafael
Italian Film Festival of Marin – 48th edition
Festival director: Lido Cantarutti
Originally started as an informal, one-time only presentation of Italian movies in a college lecture hall, the Italian Film Festival of Marin County has grown over its 46 years into a perennial favorite in the San Francisco Bay Area. From the beginning it has been a labor of love for its longtime director, Lido Cantarutti. Under his direction the program has included appearances from Italian film directors and composers, dignitaries of the Italian and Italian-American communities, and an authentically Italian atmosphere at every presentation. The centerpiece, however, is always top-quality Italian cinema.
PROGRAM
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 | 4:30 PM AND 7:00 PM
A WORLD APART (UN MONDO A PARTE)
COMEDY / DRAMA • 2023 • COLOR • 113 MINUTES
Directed by Riccardo Milani
With Antonio Albanese, and Virginia Raffaele
In Italian with English subtitles
Elementary school teacher Michele requests a transfer from a derelict neighborhood school in Rome to a school (enrollment: 8) in the tranquil village of Rupe in Abruzzo. He hopes he can make a difference there. It’s an idyllic place in winter and summer; however, due to the lack of enrollment, the school is on the brink of closure. Moreover, the village is facing extinction as the youth leave the village for the cities. Michele and Agnese, the vice principal, believe the answer may be in recruiting Ukrainian and Moroccan families to immigrate to Rupe.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4 | 4:30 PM AND 7:00 PM
HIGH STAKES (LA SCOMMESSA — UNA NOTTE IN CORSIA)
COMEDY • 2024 • COLOR • 84 MINUTES
Directed by Giovanni Dota
With Carlo Buccirosso and Lino Musella
In Italian with English subtitles
Will their patient live until morning? Nurses Angelo and Salvatore make a bet. The Christmas holiday slot and 200 euros are at stake. Salvatore spends the night trying to keep the patient alive, while Angelo plays dirty to make sure he wins the bet. In a practically deserted hospital in Naples during Ferragosto, Italy’s mid-August holiday, anything goes at the hospital, from the nurses’ cheap shots to doctors on cocaine to suspicious characters lurking in the ward.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 | 4:30 PM AND 7:00 PM
MY KILLER BUDDY (IO E IL SECCO)
COMEDY / DRAMA • 2023 • COLOR • 99 MINUTES
Directed by Gianluca Santoni
With Andrea Lattanzi Francesco Lombardo, and Barbara Ronchi
In Italian with English subtitles
Ten-year old Denni has a violent father and a mother who takes his abuse. The child wants to save his mother, and when his friend Eva tells him that she has a cousin who is a paid killer, he thinks he has found the ideal solution. So Denni approaches Eva’s cousin, nicknamed Secco, and orders him to kill his father, promising him a fee that the child takes from his father’s safe. Secco is not particularly adept at this kind of work. However, he could use the money, so he accepts the job. The partnership leads to unexpected conclusions.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18 | 4:30 PM AND 7:00 PM
WHEN MOM IS AWAY WITH THE IN-LAWS (10 GIORNI CON I SUOI)
COMEDY • 2025 • COLOR • 98 MINUTES
Directed by Alessandro Genovesi, with Fabio de Luigi, Valentina Lodovini, Dino Abbrescia, and Giulia Bevilacqua
In Italian with English subtitles
Carlo and Giulia Rovelli are preparing to leave for Puglia where their eldest daughter Camilla, now eighteen, wants to move to study at the university. But since Camilla’s plan is also to go and live with her Apulian boyfriend Antonio, Carlo is upset, and the meeting with those who could become her future in-laws is at risk. Carlo, behaving like an elephant in the china shop, makes himself an unwelcome guest. “Meet the Family” Italian style.
Based on the true story by Viola Ardone, The Unbreakable Heart.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 | 4:30 PM AND 7:00 PM
THERE’S STILL TOMORROW (C’É ANCORA DOMANI)
COMEDY / DRAMA / HISTORY • 2023 • BLACK AND WHITE • 118 MINUTES
Directed by and starring Paola Cortellesi
Con Valerio Mastandrea, and Romana Maggiora Vergano
In Italian with English subtitles
In this comedy drama set in Rome after World War II, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering husband. When a mysterious letter arrives, she discovers the courage to change the circumstances of her life. Winner of six Italian Academy Awards and the highest grossing Italian movie post-pandemic.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1 | 4:30 PM AND 7:00 PM
TRIFOLE (TRUFFLES)
DRAMA • 2024 • COLOR • 100 MINUTES
Directed by Gabriele Fabbro
With Margherita Buy, Umberto Orsini, Ydalie Turk and “Birba” (the loyal truffle hunter dog)
In Italian with English subtitles
Dalia is sent from her aimless life in London to check up on her grandfather, an experienced truffle hunter named Igor. Igor lives in Langhe, the land of the highly prized Alba White Truffle. These two initially rub each other the wrong way, with Igor seriously at risk financially and routinely mistaking his granddaughter for his daughter, Marta. Armed with his loyal truffle hunter dog Birba (“rascal”), they search for the prizewinning truffle that will save his home.
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