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Cinema Italian Style
SIFF Cinema Uptown
SIFF's Cinema Italian Style's ninth year featured some of the best in current Italian films. The week-long festival showcased 16 extraordinary feature films with some of the biggest names in Italian cinema today.
PROGRAMMED FILMS
At War For Love
Italy | 2016 | 99 minutes | Pif (Pierfrancesco Diliberto)
Opening Night Film! In this WWII black comedy, the penniless-but lovestruck Arturo joins the US Army for a free ride to Italy, so he can track down Flora’s Sicilian father for permission to marry her.
The War of the Yokels
Italy | 2017 | 100 minutes | Davide Barletti, Lorenzo Conte
With an eclectic cast made up almost entirely of children, this fable of a war between the ruling elite and lower classes plays like a cross between LORD OF THE FLIES and THE GOONIES.
Something New
Italy | 2016 | 93 minutes | Cristina Comencini
A love triangle between two 40-something friends and a 19-year-old is the basis for a comedy of crossed wires that pays tribute to the freedom of letting go, at any age, to the joys of sex and levity.
Umberto D.
Italy | 1952 | 88 minutes | Vittorio De Sica
Vittorio De Sica’s neorealist masterpiece follows an elderly pensioner striving to make ends meet in post-war Italy, and is widely recognized as one of the most compelling classics of world cinema.
Naples '44
Italy | 2016 | 84 minutes | Francesco Patierno
Weaving together unique archival and feature film footage with Benedict Cumberbatch’s narration, director Francesco Patierno creates a vivid, lyrical account of post-war Naples.
There Is A Light
Italy | 2017 | 92 minutes | Fabio Mollo
Guest in attendance. Paolo and Mia, an introverted clerk and a unconventional pregnant woman, go on a road trip looking for the father of Mia's unborn daughter. North American Premiere.
Everything You Want
Italy | 2017 | 106 minutes | Francesco Bruni
Guest in attendance. When Alessandro takes a job as a companion for an elderly, Alzheimer’s-stricken poet, they slowly piece together Giorgio’s long-buried memories, revealing clues to a hidden treasure.
Emma
Italy | 2017 | 117 minutes | Silvio Soldini
When good-looking serial womanizer Teo meets Emma, a newly single blind physical therapist, neither takes it seriously. But emotions are hard to predict in this charming and absorbing romance. US Premiere
Wife & Husband
Italy | 2016 | 100 minutes | Simone Godano
Dazzling Italian superstars Pierfrancesco Favino and Kasia Smutniak sizzle on screen together in this romantic farce about modern relationships in this brilliant new take on the body swap comedy.
Let Yourself Go!
Italy | 2017 | 98 minutes | Francesco Amato
Guest in attendance. In this screwball comedy, An uptight psychologist gets more than just a physical workout when he signs up for personal training sessions with an attractive young instructor. Winner of the 2017 Italian Golden Globe for Best Comedy.
Holding Hands
Italy | 2017 | 103 minutes | Gianni Amelio
Profound and moving drama from Italian maestro Gianni Amelio exploring loneliness, heartbreak, and complicated family relations in modern-day Naples, anchored by understated performances from its superb cast.
A Ciambra
Italy | 2017 | 120 minutes | Jonas Carpignano
When 14 year-old Pio’s older brother Cosimo disappears and things begin to fall apart in their Roma community, Pio is forced to make an unexpectedly adult decision.
Love and Bullets
Italy | 2017 | 139 minutes | Manetti Bros.
Guests in attendance. Ammo may be flying but there's always time for a sing-along in Love and Bullets, a playful mafia musical where the crooks really can croon in the latest Naples set adventure from the Manetti Bros. US Premiere
Lucky
Italy | 2017 | 103 minutes | Sergio Castellitto
Jasmine Trinca delivers an award-winning performance as a brassy young mother determined to create an independent life for herself. What she didn’t count on was a new romance with her daughter’s therapist.
Pawn Street
Italy | 2016 | 85 minutes | Irene Dionisio
Irene Dionisio's debut feature is a gripping moral drama that interlaces three storylines around a pawn shop in Turin.
Easy
Italy | 2017 | 91 minutes | Andrea Magnani
Closing Night Film with guest in attendance! Italian director Andrea Magnani finds the right tone in lightly-paced, deeply observed film about an obese and depressed man, Easy, trying to transport a coffin from Italy to a village in the Ukraine.