COSÌ È LA VITA – UNA STORIA VERA (Life is like that – a true story)
Cinema at the Institute – TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE Director: Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo e Massimo Venier. Cast: Marina Massironi, Antonio Catania, Francesco Pannofino, Giovanni Caccioppo. Italy. 1998 Aldo is in prison for credit card fraud. When he is taken in a police car to court, he takes his guard hostage and makes his getaway. When […]
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QUANDO SEI NATO NON PUOI PIU’ NASCONDERTI (Once you are born you can no longer hide)
Cinema at the Institute – TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE Director: Marco Tullio Giordana. Cast: Alessio Boni, Matteo Gadola, Vlad Alexandru Toma, Ester Hazan. Italy. 2005 Thirteen-year-old Sandro, the only son of a wealthy family, is from Brescia in northern Italy. One night, during a sailing trip in the Mediterranean he accidentally falls overboard, and no one […]
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CRISTO SI E’ FERMATO A EBOLI (Christ stopped at Eboli)
Cinema at the Institute – TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE Director: Francesco Rosi. Cast: Gian Maria Volonté, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Lea Massari, Irene Papas. Italy. 1979 Carlo Levi was a painter and writer, but he also had a degree in medicine. Arrested in 1935 by Mussolini’s regime for his anti-Fascist activities, he was sent to live […]
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NUOVOMONDO (The golden door)
Cinema at the Institute – TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE Director: Emanuele Crialese. Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vincenzo Amato, Aurora Quattrocchi. Italy. 2005 At the turn of the 20th century, the poor Mancuso family from Sicily headed by the widower Salvatore migrates to the United States. They dream about the land of opportunity, where giant vegetables are grown, […]
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LAMERICA (America)
Cinema at the Institute – TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE Director: Gianni Amelio. Cast: Enrico Lo Verso, Michele Placido, Carmelo Di Mazzarelli. Italy. 1994 Fiore, a seasoned racketeer from Italy, arrives with Gino, his young apprentice, to set up a shoe factory that will never open. They designate Spiro, a confused old man in prison, as chairman […]
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SAIMIR (Saimir)
Cinema at the Institute – TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE Director: Francesco Munzi. Cast: Mishel Manoku, Xhevdet Feri, Lavinia Guglielman, Anna Ferruzzo. Italy. 2004 The Albanian teenager Saimir has known only the harsh life of poverty and illegality. His father makes dangerous living transporting illegal immigrants from the beach to farms in the surrounding countryside. Yet, when […]
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MORTE A VENEZIA (Death in venice)
Cinema at the Institute – TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE Director: Luchino Visconti. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Björn Andresen, Silvana Mangano, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns. Italy. 1971 While visiting Venice, Dirk Bogarde, a German composer falls in love with a beautiful young boy. The relationship is ruined by Bogarde’s obsession with the boy’s youth and physical perfection; the […]
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ITALIAN SUD EST (Italian South-East)
Cinema at the Institute – TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE Director: Davide Barletti, Lorenzo Conte. Cast: Antonio Aluisi, Caterina Tortosa, Matteo Fraterno. Italy. 2003 Caterina travels on local railway that crosses through the Lecce region around Salento. Every day she talks to someone, a passenger, an engine driver or a railway worker whom she meets at a […]
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IO NON HO PAURA (I am not scared)
Cinema at the Institute – TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE Director: Gabriele Salvatores. Cast: Diego Abatantuono, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Dino Abbrescia, Giorgio Careccia. Italy. 2003 In the Southern Italy during the staggeringly hot summer of 1978, Cornfields cover the hills like an undulating sea of gold against the deep blue sky. At the centre of it all is […]
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CATERINA VA IN CITTÀ (Caterina in the big City)
Cinema at the Institute – TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE Director: Paolo Virzì. Cast: Mario Castellitto, Margherita Buy, Claudio Amendola. Italy. 2002 Caterina is a teenager, living in a small rural community. Her life is turned upside down when her irascible school teacher father decides to move the family to Rome, to live in his old home. […]
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