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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RESPIRO (The Sigh)
Cinema at the Institute – TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE Director: Emanuele Crialese. Cast: Valeria Golino, Vicenzo Amato, Veronica D’Agostino, Filippo Pucillo. Italy. 2002 Grazia is deeply committed to her husband Pietro and their children, as well as stray dogs. She suffers from extreme mood swings that result in serious physical attacks in times of high anxiety. […]
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LA STRADA (The Road)
Cinema at the Institute – TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE Director: Federico Fellini. Cast: Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Marcella Rovena, Livia Venturini. Italy. 1954 Her very poor mother sells Gelsomina, a carefree girl, to Zampano, an itinerant strongman. Gelsomina follows him on the road, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain all along the way and […]
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GIULIA NON ESCE LA SERA (Giulia doesn’t date at night)
Cinema at the Institute – Women Portraits Director: Giuseppe Piccioni. Cast: Valerio Mastandrea, Valeria Golino, Sonia Bergamasco, Domiziana Cardinali. Italy. 2008 Guido Montani, a successful writer and recipient of an elitist literary award joins a local pool for swimming lessons. In so doing, his path criss-crosses with that of Giulia, a beautiful woman who projects […]
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