Cinema Italian Style 2020 brings the best in new Italian cinema right to your home with a virtual edition featuring work from established masters and new voices and pre-recorded filmmaker Q&As.
This year Cinema Italian Style goes virtual, thanks to the collaboration with the Seattle International Film Festival, who will host it on its platform. Many movies will be available for the entire USA, but the capacity is limited so make sure to reserve your passes or tickets on time!
Featuring work from established masters and new voices, pre-recorded filmmaker Q&As, and films spanning the country, Cinema Italian Style will hit your screens December 10 – 17, 2020.
All movies are In Italian with English subtitles.
Cinema Italian Style is co-presented by Luce Cinecittà and the Seattle International Film Festival, with the support of the Italian Ministry of Culture – Cinema Department and the Italian Cultural Institutes of San Francisco and Los Angeles, under the auspices of the Consulates General of Italy in San Francisco and Los Angeles, in collaboration with the Italian Trade Agency of Los Angeles and the American Cinematheque.
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PROGRAM
Assandira
Italy | 2020 | 107 min. | Salvatore Mereu
Opens December 10, 2020
Soaked to the bone in a torrential rain, Costantino tells the tale of a suspicious fire and death of his son, in this classic detective story set in rural Sardinia. Shot with an earthy intimacy and featuring an achingly powerful performance by Gavino Ledda.
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Everything’s Gonna Be Alright (Cosa Sara)
Italy | 2020 | 101 min. | Francesco Bruni
Opens December 10, 2020
Filmmaker Bruno is struggling–he has recently separated from his wife, his children ignore him, and his comedic films aren’t funny. When he discovers he has leukemia, secrets from his father’s past come to light, and lead the family on a tour of rebirth, in this new film from Festival favorite Francesco Bruni.
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Goddess of Fortune (La Dea Fortuna)
Italy | 2020 | 115 min. | Ferzan Ozpetek
Opens December 10, 2020
In director Ferzan Ozpetek’s newest film, Stefano Accorsi and Edoardo Leo are a long-term couple in crisis, who have everything shaken up when their best friend (Jasmine Trinca) shows up with children and suitcases in tow. A Roman story of love, friendship, and family of all kinds.
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Golden Men (Gli uomini d’oro)
Italy | 2019 | 103 min. | Vincenzo Alfieri
Opens December 10, 2020
A notorious 1990s armored car heist and its aftermath is viewed from multiple perspectives—drivers, ex-boxers, go-go dancers—in this slick, nonlinear crime thriller based on the wild true story that set Italy ablaze.
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Hidden Away (Volevo nascondermi)
Italy | 2020 | 118 min. | Giorgio Diritti
Opens December 10, 2020
Giorgio Diritti’s biopic on revolutionary painter Antonio Ligabue boasts an emotive and dramatic tension which is fully channelled into Elio Germano’s terrific Berlin Film Festival award-winning performance.
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Kidz (Figli)
Italy | 2020 | 98 min. | Giuseppe Bonito
Opens December 10, 2020
A playful, relatable, uproarious film that constantly pulls the rug out from under you, Kidz is a knockout comedy about the pressures of child-rearing in an uncertain economic time.
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Notturno
Italy | 2020 | 109 min. | Gianfranco Rosi
Opens December 10, 2020
From the Oscar-nominated director of Fire at Sea, this lyrical tour-de-force captures the peoples and places ravaged along the borders between Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan, and Lebanon. Italy’s Oscars 2021 Best International Feature Film Submission.
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Padrenostro
Italy | 2020 | 120 min. | Claudio Noce
Opens December 10, 2020
Set in 1976 Rome, Padrenostro is an intimate and stirring rendering of trauma and its enduring aftermath loosely based on the director’s own childhood experience. Winner: Venice Film Festival 2020, Best Actor.
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The Champion (Il campione)
Italy | 2019 | 105 min. | Leonardo d’Agostini
Opens December 10, 2020
When a hotheaded superstar striker for Roma gets into terrible trouble, his coach forces him to study under the tutelage of a humble history teacher in this intimate, inspirational sports drama out of Italy.
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The Ties (Lacci)
Italy | 2020 | 100 min. | Daniele Luchetti
Opens December 10, 2020
In his affecting portrait of a marriage in crisis starring Luigi Lo Cascio and Alba Rohrwacher, acclaimed filmmaker Daniele Luchetti (My Brother is an Only Child, Our Life) has crafted a stirring domestic drama that shifts back and forth through the years.
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