Banana is a 2015 comedy-drama film written and directed by Andrea Jublin. For this film Jublin was nominated for David di Donatello for Best New Director.
Banana is blessed with more self-belief than talent, and is missing goals both on and off the field. His parents are drifting apart; the girl he likes is out of his league; his older sister is marrying the wrong man; his teachers are either mean or indifferent; and worst of all his goal-kicking foot is shaped like an actual banana! In the face of obstacles like that it would be easy to just give up, like so many of the adults in his life, but Banana refuses to accept defeat.
Banana, Thursday August 4 at 1:30pm and Wednesday August 10 at 11am.
Fire at sea, is a 2016 Italian documentary film directed by Gianfranco Rosi. It won the Golden Bear at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival.
On the picturesque Sicilian island of Lampedusa – population 6000 – the sleepy rhythms of ordinary life are being shattered by the wave of migrants sweeping across the Mediterranean Sea. Day after day, boat after boat, tens of thousands of refugees arrive on the shores of this tiny fishing outpost, only to vanish from sight just as quickly. They're passing shadows, yet they have an indelible impact on those who call the island home.
Fire at Sea, Tuesday August 9 at 9pm.
Suburra is 2015 Italian neo-noir film directed by Stefano Sollima, based on the novel by Carlo Bonini and Giancarlo De Cataldo of the same title. The movie focuses on the connections between organized crime and politics in Rome in 2011. A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn Rome's waterfront into the Las Vegas of Italy, and everyone seems willing to co-operate: politicians, mob bosses and even the Vatican are all set to profit from this massive venture. But when one corrupt politician makes a fatal mistake, it sends everyone involved in the project into a war fuelled by blackmail, revenge, betrayal and violence. Suburra was the name of a suburb of Ancient Rome.
Suburra, Wednesday August 10 and Saturday August 13 at 6:30pm.
Blood of My Blood, is a 2015 Italian drama film directed by Marco Bellocchio. It was screened in the main competition section of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival and in the Masters section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.
In 1600s Italy, a priest's suicide leads a nun to be accused of communicating with the devil. As she suffers through a series of ordeals, the priest's brother visits her cell and urges her to confess. In a parallel story, a convent prison is at the centre of a real estate deal. In its shadows lurks the property's owner: a mysterious, elderly man who is only able to leave by nightfall.
Blood of My Blood, Monday August 8 at 6:30 pm.
Lost and Beautiful is a 2015 Italian fantasy-drama film produced, written and directed by Pietro Marcello. It was entered into the main competition at the 2015 Locarno International Film Festival.
In the southern Italian province of Caserta, an 18th-century palace has fallen into disrepair, tended to solely by local shepherd Tommaso Cestrone. Working for no pay and little acknowledgement, he is a man of integrity in a region ravaged by organised crime and bureaucratic inertia.
Lost and Beautiful, Thursday August 4 at 4pm.
The Silence, the latest short film by Farnoosh Samadi and Ali Asgari, premiered in the Short Film Official Competition at 2016 Cannes Film Festival tells the story of a young Kurdish girl living in Italy as a refugee has to translate the doctor's words to her mother. Instead, she remains silent.
The Silence, Thursday August 4 at 6:45pm.
Following this link you can find the program of the Italian Film Festival opening on September 13:
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