Days and Clouds
GIORNI E NUVOLE
115 min | Italy, Switzerland | 2008 | Opening Night Gala Film
Director: Silvio Soldini

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Nominated for 15 David di Donatello Awards (Italian Academy Awards): Well-to-do, sophisticated couple, Elsa and Michele, have a 20 year-old daughter, Alice, and enough money for Elsa to leave her job and fulfill an old dream of studying art history. After she graduates, however, their lives change. Michele confesses he hasn't worked in two months and was fired by the company he founded years ago. Elsa overcomes her initial shock by pouring extra energy into facing the crisis while Michele, exhausted by an unsuccessful job hunt, lets himself go, alternating between vivacity and apathy. The growing distance between them eventually leads to a break-up. Only when they apart will they realize that they risk losing their most precious possession: the love that binds them.

ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

GALA SCREENING
SAT. 2/21 at 6:00PM
Stockton Empire Theatre

Facing Windows
LA FINESTRA DI FRONTE
106 min | Italy, Turkey, Portugal, UK | 2004 | Narrative Feature
Director: Ferzan Ozpetek

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Winner of 4 David di Donatello Awards (Italian Academy Awards) and Best Film at the 2004 Seattle International Film Festival: Giovanna is a bookeeper in a company which packs chickens. She is married to a man who has a precarious job. First she starts being curious about a young man who lives in the block opposite hers, and then she falls in love with him. The relationship between the two becomes much stronger when she starts to find out more about him from an old man who bursts into their lives. The old man, obsessed with the memories of some things that happened in the long past autumn of 1943, has lost his memory and finds refuge in Giovanna. Written by Sujit R. Varma

ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES, MPAA RATED R

SUN. 2/22 at 4:00PM
Stockton Empire Theatre

The Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio
L'ORCHESTRA DI PIAZZA VITTORIO
93 min | Italy | 2006 | Documentary Feature
Director: Agostino Ferrente

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A film for lovers of music. The film talks about the birth of the Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio and the stories of its protagonists united by a project developed by the Cultural Association Apollo 11. The documentary focuses on the emotions created by a musical and humanitarian bet: bringing together musicians from all over the world on a single stage. The musicians themselves talk about their own roles in the ambitious project of making the OPV an important reality.

ITALIAN AND MULTIPLE LANGUAGES WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

MON. 2/23 at 6:00PM
Stockton Empire Theatre

SAT. 2/21 at 9:00PM
Stockton Empire Theatre

SUN. 2/22 at 6:00PM
Stockton Empire Theatre

MON. 2/23 at 8:00PM
Stockton Empire Theatre

Sick of It
IL MALATO
8 min | Italy | 2007 | Narrative Short
Director: Antonello Schioppa
USA Premiere

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Mario and Bruno, emigrants living in Milan, are on their way to their usual football game when, suddenly, Mario sees his wife entering a hotel side-by-side with a man. SICK OF IT is a funny picture of a phenomenon of our times - a short tale based on the "menage a trois" formula that includes a trouble: football.

ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Today, I Have Something Else to Do
OGGI HO ALTRO DA FARE
5 min | Italy | 2007 | Experimental Short
Director: Antonello Schioppa
USA Premiere

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Yesterday: the wedding of a young couple. Today: the young couple is now a family. Yesterday: the work in a factory. Today: the temporary employment. A hallucinated shot of the (Italian) modern work situation, and the necessity to rise against it.

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The Uncle
LO ZIO
20 min | Italy | 2007 | Narrative Short
Director: Duccio Chiarini
USA Premiere

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From Florence, Italy, Duccio Chiarini directs a beautiful film about the unexpected arrival of Uncle Baccio in the country house where his son Corso is spending his holidays with some friends. Together, they experience uncontrollable consequences.

ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Under My Garden
SOTTO IL MIO GIARDINO
20 min | Italy | 2007 | Narrative Short
Director: Andrea Lodovichetti
California Premiere

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"...you can fool everyone, you can fool your neighbors, you can fool the police... but you can't fool the ants!"

Winner of Spike Lee's Babelgum Film Festival Looking for Genius Award, presented at the 2008 Festival de Cannes: Marco, a 10-year old boy who has a passion for insects, is convinced that his neighbor has killed his wife and has buried her under his garden. The evidence being a large ant nest he has been carefully examining for a while. He thus decides to carry out some investigations. He has only revealed his thoughts to his little friend, Sara...

ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Voices of Native Italian and Migrant Women
VOCI DI DONNE NATIVE E MIGRANTI
14 min | Italy | 2008 | Documentary Short
Director: Rossella Piccinno
USA Premiere

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This documentary short film, realized in collaboration with Lecce's immigrant women forum, addresses the themes of the difficulties faced by immigrants living in Italy. Particularly focusing on the working conditions experienced by women and the problems related to legal residential statuses.

ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Wanted in Rome
14 min | Italy | 2008 | Narrative Short
Director: Rossella De Venuto and Ji Un Choi
Northern California Premiere

Jacqueline, a foreign composer in Rome, is in search of a house where she can compose and practice her piano in peace. She finally finds a room at Louise’s, another foreigner who is encouraging her with her music. Jacqueline still has to move her piano and nobody is going to help her, except Luca, Louise’s son.

ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES