Cinema Italian Style
December 10 - 17, 2020
Cinema Italian Style is bringing the best in new Italian cinema right to your home with a virtual 12th edition! The 2020 weeklong festival will feature pre-recorded filmmaker Q&As and new work from festival favorites—including Ferzan Özpetek (Goddess of Fortune), Francesco Bruni (Everything's Gonna Be Alright, fresh from its Rome premiere), and Daniele Luchetti (The Ties)—side by side with debut films from David di Donatello-nominated Leonardo d’Agostini (The Champion) and Giuseppe Bonito (Kidz).
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Join us for una settimana di straordinari film italiani—available this year from the comfort of your couch.
PASSES & TICKETS
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Passes: $85 Non-Members ($50 SIFF Members)
Tickets: $12 Non-Members ($7 SIFF Members)
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Cinema Italian Style: Assandira
Italy | 2020 | 107 min. | Salvatore Mereu
December 10 - 17, 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.
Cinema Italian Style: Everything's Gonna Be Alright
Italy | 2020 | 101 min. | Francesco Bruni
December 10 - 17, 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.
Cinema Italian Style: Goddess of Fortune
Italy | 2020 | 115 min. | Ferzan Ozpetek
December 10 - 17, 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.
Cinema Italian Style: Golden Men
Italy | 2019 | 103 min. | Vincenzo Alfieri
December 10 - 17, 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.
Cinema Italian Style: Hidden Away
Italy | 2020 | 118 min. | Giorgio Diritti
December 10 - 17, 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.
Cinema Italian Style: Kidz
Italy | 2020 | 98 min. | Giuseppe Bonito
December 10 - 17, 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.
Cinema Italian Style: Notturno
Italy | 2020 | 109 min. | Gianfranco Rosi
December 10 - 17, 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.
Cinema Italian Style: Padrenostro
Italy | 2020 | 120 min. | Claudio Noce
December 10 - 17, 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.
Cinema Italian Style: The Champion
Italy | 2019 | 105 min. | Leonardo d’Agostini
December 10 - 17, 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.
Cinema Italian Style: The Ties
Italy | 2020 | 100 min. | Daniele Luchetti
December 10 - 17, 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.
