Italian Film Festival In Lebanon – CINE-CONCERT “È PICCERELLA” | “THE LITTLE GIRL’S WRONG”
CINE-CONCERT “È PICCERELLA” | “THE LITTLE GIRL’S WRONG” (44 min., Elvira Notari) Music composed and performed live by Maurilio Cacciatore “È piccerella” is a 1922 silent film directed by Elvira Notari, considered the first Italian female filmmaker. Inspired by the song of the same name by Libero Bovio and Salvatore Gambardella, the movie tells the […]
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Italian Film Festival In Lebanon – GLORIA!
GLORIA! (106 min, Margherita Vicario) The year is 1800; the place, Sant Ignazio College, a decrepit old musical institute for girls, somewhere near Venice. Here lives “the Mute”, a silent, solitary maid tasked with the humblest chores. No one knows that her name is Teresa; no one suspects that she possesses an extraordinary talent that […]
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Italian Film Festival In Lebanon – A WORLD APART
A WORLD APART (113 min, Riccardo Milani) After 40 years of teaching in the Roman jungle, an elementary school teacher manages to be assigned to a school made up of a single class, with children aged 7 to 10, in the heart of the Abruzzo National Park. Thanks to the help of the vice principal […]
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Italian Film Festival In Lebanon – TRUST
TRUST (136 min, Daniele Luchetti) Can a secret threaten you to the point of deciding to live as an honest man? Based on the novel by Domenico Starnone, Trust is a thriller of the soul about how love and fear can affect our lives forever.
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Italian Film Festival In Lebanon – IDDU-SICILIAN LETTERS
IDDU | SICILIAN LETTERS (122 min, Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza) Sicily, early 2000s. After a few years in prison for mafia, Catello, a career politician, has lost everything. When the Italian intelligence service asks him for help in catching Matteo, his godson and the last prominent fugitive mafia boss out there, Catello seizes the […]
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Italian Film Festival In Lebanon – LA VITA ACCANTO
LA VITA ACCANTO (100 min, Marco Tullio Giordana) In Vicenza, a beautiful Italian art city, a young wealthy couple joyfully welcomes the birth of a long-awaited daughter in the early 1980s. But the child’s face is disfigured by a red birthmark that covers half her face. This spot haunts the mother to the point that […]
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Italian Film Festival In Lebanon – FAMILIA
FAMILIA (120 min, Francesco Costabile) Rome, early 2000s. Luigi Celeste, known as Gigi, lives with his brother Alessandro and their mother Licia, who separated from their violent father Franco. When Franco is released from prison and shows up again, Gigi will be forced to confront his past and take crucial decisions for his future. DIRECTOR’S […]
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Italian Film Festival In Lebanon – MY SUMMER WITH IRÈNE
MY SUMMER WITH IRÈNE (90 min, Carlo Sironi) Italy, 1997. When Clara and Irène, both 17, meet they are nothing like each other but get on marvelously well. They run away together to a faraway island off the coast of Sicily to live their summer freely, and to hide from a reality they want to […]
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Italian Film Festival In Lebanon – WEIGHTLESS
WEIGHTLESS (94 min, Sara Fgaier) Gian fights the darkness caused by sudden amnesia. Miriam, the daughter he does not recognize, gives him a diary he wrote in his twenties, revolving around Leila, a girl with whom he discovered love over the course of one night. This exacerbates Gian’s pain but pushes him to find himself […]
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Italian Film Festival In Lebanon – FEELING BETTER
FEELING BETTER (93 min, Valerio Mastandrea) A man spends peacefully his days in hospital without too many worries. He has been hospitalized for a while but that condition seems like the best way to live his life, safe from everything and everyone, without responsibilities and problems of any kind. It feels really good in there […]
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