It?s the fifth annual San Diego Italian Film Festival, October 29 through November 12, 2011 with 15 great Italian movies, fabulous celebrations, famous directors and dynamic discussions.
This year, you?ll find movies that put you right into the heart of Italy; funny, sad, ferocious, and passionate. See director Paolo Virzi?s award winning 2010 film La prima cosa bella (The first beautiful thing), some stunning noir films like La ragazza del lago (The girl by the lake) or take in the retrospective of groundbreaking neorealism films by a trio of Italy?s greatest directors. Insightful introductions will help you understand why these films still influence movie-making today. Two weeks of Italy for you with Italy and Italian culture beside you.
Passion, identity, history and food for the senses don?t miss any of these events. You?ll know you?ve spent a week in the piazza when you come to the San Diego Italian Film Festival.
While documentaries have taken up a larger part of our movie world, this festival will explore what that means today, both here and in Italy in a big confab and movie show at SDSU on November 6. More movies, more directors, more discussions.
Admission: Suggested Donation $5
Location:
Museum of Photographic Art
1649 El Prado
San Diego, CA 92101
November 11 film:
7:00 PM to Luomo Che Verra (The man who will come) In the fall of 1944, on the slopes of Monte Sole south of Bologna, fascism showed its face in one of the worst massacres on Italian soil. As a reprisal against local villagers for support of partisan activity, German SS troops systematically murdered nearly 800 people, most of them women, children and elderly. Giorgio Diritti illuminates the incident?now buried deep in Italy?s cultural memory, if not in the memories of its survivors?in a very specific way: He creates an almost elegiac portrait of peasant life as seen through the eyes of an eight-year-old child. Martina has fallen mute since the death of her infant brother; now her mother is pregnant again, and Martina awaits the infant as her own rebirth. Her father and other villagers, meanwhile, debate the wisdom of aiding the partisans, until encroaching violence makes it no longer a question. For some, to be a partisan is to recognize the degree to which fascism and then the war made poor peasants even poorer. For others, the issue is not one of rebellion but of morality: ?The Germans do what we were taught not to do.? But the heinous crime perpetrated against these people will raze beliefs along with souls. Even so, Diritti manages to make a work as rich in beauty and hope as in wonder at the depths of inhumanity.
The festival runs Saturday, October 29 through Wendsday, November 12
For more information, please visit: www.sandiegoitalianfilmfestival.com
This year, you?ll find movies that put you right into the heart of Italy; funny, sad, ferocious, and passionate. See director Paolo Virzi?s award winning 2010 film La prima cosa bella (The first beautiful thing), some stunning noir films like La ragazza del lago (The girl by the lake) or take in the retrospective of groundbreaking neorealism films by a trio of Italy?s greatest directors. Insightful introductions will help you understand why these films still influence movie-making today. Two weeks of Italy for you with Italy and Italian culture beside you.
Passion, identity, history and food for the senses don?t miss any of these events. You?ll know you?ve spent a week in the piazza when you come to the San Diego Italian Film Festival.
While documentaries have taken up a larger part of our movie world, this festival will explore what that means today, both here and in Italy in a big confab and movie show at SDSU on November 6. More movies, more directors, more discussions.
Admission: Suggested Donation $5
Location:
Museum of Photographic Art
1649 El Prado
San Diego, CA 92101
November 11 film:
7:00 PM to Luomo Che Verra (The man who will come) In the fall of 1944, on the slopes of Monte Sole south of Bologna, fascism showed its face in one of the worst massacres on Italian soil. As a reprisal against local villagers for support of partisan activity, German SS troops systematically murdered nearly 800 people, most of them women, children and elderly. Giorgio Diritti illuminates the incident?now buried deep in Italy?s cultural memory, if not in the memories of its survivors?in a very specific way: He creates an almost elegiac portrait of peasant life as seen through the eyes of an eight-year-old child. Martina has fallen mute since the death of her infant brother; now her mother is pregnant again, and Martina awaits the infant as her own rebirth. Her father and other villagers, meanwhile, debate the wisdom of aiding the partisans, until encroaching violence makes it no longer a question. For some, to be a partisan is to recognize the degree to which fascism and then the war made poor peasants even poorer. For others, the issue is not one of rebellion but of morality: ?The Germans do what we were taught not to do.? But the heinous crime perpetrated against these people will raze beliefs along with souls. Even so, Diritti manages to make a work as rich in beauty and hope as in wonder at the depths of inhumanity.
The festival runs Saturday, October 29 through Wendsday, November 12
For more information, please visit: www.sandiegoitalianfilmfestival.com
