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film series > CINEDAY “al femminile”

The Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco is pleased to present CINEDAY al femminile, a series of productions directed by Italian female filmmakers.

This series is dedicated to Italian director Cecila Mangini (1927-2021), considered the first Italian female documentary filmmaker, and it is available to the first 300 to register. Please note that the link and password you’ll receive upon registration are valid only for the date and time of each movie. The registration links will be sent out one at a time, weekly, in the IIC newsletter and website.

 

CECILIA MANGINI

cecilia manginiCecilia Mangini was born on July 31, 1927 in Mola di Bari, Apulia, Italy. She was a writer and director. Her first documentary, Ignoti alla Città (Unknown to the City), was released in 1958. Written by Pier Paolo Pasolini, the film focused on adolescents in Rome’s suburbs after World War II. She is known for All’armi siam fascisti! (1962), Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison (1977) and Klon (1992). She was married to Lino Del Fra. She died on January 21, 2021 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

 

PROGRAM

sembra mio figlio fotoFeb 21 | 7 PM
JUST LIKE MY SON (Sembra mio figlio)
Dir: Costanza Quatriglio
Drama, Italy/Belgium/Croatia/Iran, 2018, 103 min
In Italian and Persian with English subtitles

 

SYNOPSIS
In the middle of the night, a mobile phone rings. It’s the sign: Ismail awaits until the third ring, then he goes to a call centre to call back. Far, from Afghanistan, a man answers: he claims to be an uncle and hands the phone to a woman. She is Ismail’s mother, who denies to know him. She doesn’t have any news from her son since he was a little boy run away with his older brother from civil wars and Talibans. The woman made her children leave the country on their own, afraid they could get killed. Further the recognition that happens after many secret phone calls, Ismail’s mother disappears.

 

genitori quasi perfettiMar 7 | 7 PM
PARENTS IN PROGRESS (Genitori quasi perfetti)
Dir: Laura Chiossone
Comedy-drama, Italy, 2019, 86 min
In Italian with English subtitles

 

SYNOPSIS
Simona (Anna Foglietta) is a single mother in her forties, and lives for her son Filippo (Nicolò Costa). She feels terribly inadequate to the role and the organization of the party for his eighth birthday brings to light all her insecurities. Divided between her son’s desires and the will to protect him from the judgment of others, which can be fierce, Simona arrives on the day of the party full of expectations and anxieties. While both parents and children arrive at the party, we start composing a very diverse array of people with very different views, and while the children play in the living room, the adults in the kitchen pleasantly hate each other. Until an unexpected performance by Filippo breaks the mold and triggers a domino effect of actions and reactions that bring the party to derail…

 

assoloMar 21| 7 PM
SOLO (Assolo)
Dir: Laura Morante
Comedy, Italy/France, 2015, 97 min
In Italian with English subtitles

 

SYNOPSIS
Flavia is 50 years old, two failed marriages and a complicated relationship with a married man in her pasts, she is now single again after a very long time. Not an easy endeavor for any woman her age, and for her in particular, due to her pathological lack of confidence which causes her to constantly depend on the people around her: her two ex-husbands, her two sons, her tyrannical friends and her husbands’ new wives, seen as unreachable role models that she tries to emulate without success. With the help of a wise and seraphic psychoanalyst, Flavia struggles regaining independence and self-confidence, tackling numerous driving tests and awkward approaches to auto-eroticism.

 

punta sacraApr 11| 7 PM
PUNTA SACRA 
Dir: Francesca Mazzoleni
Documentary, Italy, 2020, 98 min
In Italian with English subtitles

 

SYNOPSIS
At the edge of Rome, at the mouth
 of the Tiber, the small district of Idroscalo di Ostia juts right out over the sea. The women who live there, such as Franca and her daughters, bear its stories, with the natural force of the site, between wild realism and popular imagination. This sacred point becomes a theatre for the resistance of
 a community that expresses its right to live there.

 

le meraviglieApr 25 | 7 PM
THE WONDERS (Le meraviglie)
Dir: Alice Rohrwacher
Drama, Italy/France/Germany, 2014 , 111 min
In Italian, French and German with English subtitles

SYNOPSIS
A family of beekeepers living in the Tuscan countryside finds their household disrupted by the simultaneous arrival of a silently troubled teenage boy and a reality TV show intent on showcasing the family.

 

vergine giurataMay 2 | 7 PM
SWORN VIRGIN (Vergine giurata)
Dir: Laura Bispuri
Italy/Switzerland/Germany/Albania/Kosovo, 2015, 90 min
In Italian and Albanian with English subtitles

SYNOPSIS
Years after declaring her eternal virginity and opting to live life as a man in the mountains of Albania, Hana looks to return to living as a woman as she settles into a new existence in modern-day Milan.

 

io e leiMay 16 | 7 PM
ME, MYSELF AND HER (Io e lei)
Dir: Maria Sole Tognazzi
Comedy-drama, Italy, 2015 , 102 min
In Italian with English subtitle

 

SYNOPSIS
Marina and Federica have been together for five years now, they share the same apartment, bed, face cream, they laugh, they fight, but even so sometimes they are not sure if they’re a couple or not.

 

cecilia mangini ph. paolo pisanelli archivio cinema del reale 2017May 30 | 7 PM
OMAGGIO A CECILIA MANGINI (Homage to Cecilia Mangini)


FACES (Facce)
Dir. Cecilia Mangini, Paolo Pisanelli, Italy, 2019, 5’08”

LA CANTA DELLE MARANE (The Song of the Marshes)
Dir. Cecilia Mangini, Italy, 1961, 11′

WORLD PREMIERE
GRAZIA DELEDDA THE REVOLUTIONARY (Grazia Deledda la rivoluzionaria)
Dir. Cecilia Mangini, Paolo Pisanelli, Italy, 2021, 53′

Photo: Paolo Pisanelli, Archivi Cinema del Reale

 

 

 

  • Organizzato da: Italian Cultural Institute SF