Cinema at the Institute: RIFF on Tour
DOUBLE BILL
-14.00- THE EARTH AND THE WIND
In Italian with subtitles in English
Director: Sebastian Maulucci
Cast: Lorenzo Richelmy, Robin Mugnaini, Laura Gigante | Year: 2013 | Duration: 86 min
Leonardo decides to quit school to devote himself to mountain-climbing rejecting his family and their rural life, unlike his brother, forced into it by the will of his family. When Leonardo is ready to leave for Nepal on a new climbing mission, his stepbrother Riccardo, who runs the family farm in Tuscany after his father’s death, asks him for help to resolve an inheritance matter. Leonardo is forced to postpone his trip and to take a break in Tuscany where he will find love and friendship and will have to decide whether to stay or leave.
-16.00- JUDITH, LA PARALISI, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LA SMORFIA, L’UOMO PIETRA (Collection of short films) (110 mins)
In Italiano con sottotitoli in Inglese
JUDITH: Judith is coping with the end of her relationship. She’s madly in love with him. An asteroid, a red purse and a Caravaggio painting will lead to unexpected consequences.
LA PARALISI: Aldo is sixty-five and still a strong and vital man. He has a new love, Rita. But his daughter Susanna and her husband, both unemployed, have asked him to pretend to be seriously ill, in order to get the money of the disability pension.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Antonio Navarra is the rich and old President of the Navarra Petrol Company. Alone, at his 80th birthday’s eve, he remembers his birthday party of that hot summer of 1938. In that day his family was exterminated by the fascist functionaries. By chance, Antonio was the only one that survived.
LA SMORFIA: Carmine is an old neapolitan singer whose life was changed after an accident which crippled his face, and left him confined to a wheelchair. His dream and aim since the accident has been to go back to the theater which made him famous and allowed him win the award for Best Singer of Neapolitan music. The greatest obstacle though will be Nina, Carmine’s sister.
L’UOMO PIETRA: Edoardo Rubettini was considered a child prodigy of the Italian documentary filmmaking, compared to Pierpaolo Pasolini and he wanted to describe the profound identity of Italy. Since 2010, however, the young director Edoardo Rubettini is untraceable. It is known that for some time he had moved to Modica, Sicily, to shoot a new documentary, “L’uomo pietra”. Thanks to the testimony of his operator Caprotta, we are now able to reconstruct the last weeks that Rubettini spent in Modica.
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