MOVIEMOV Italian Film Festival

April 23 – 26, 2019

Cinematheque Centre Manila
658 Kalaw Ave, Manila, NCR, 1000 Philippines

Italian Showcase

Una Questione Privata / Rainbow – A Private Affair

Opening Gala Invite Only 23 Tuesday 7:30 PM

Summer 1943, Piedmont, Italy. Milton loves Fulvia who plays with his love: she only likes the depth of his thought and the letters he writes to her. One year later, Milton has joined the Resistance and fights beside other partisans. He learns during a conversation that Fulvia was secretly in love with his friend Giorgio, a partisan like him. Milton decides to go find Giorgio in the Langhe region and its misty hills… But Giorgio has just been arrested by the Fascists.

Italy/ France, 2017, 84′ Original language: Italian Director: Paolo Taviani Cast: Luca Marinelli, Lorenzo Richelmy, Valentina Belle, Francesca Agostini, Jacopo Olmo Antinori International sales: Pyram ide International

Manuel I Il Figlio, Manuel

24 Wednesday 5:00 PM

Manuel has just turned 18. It is time to leave the foster home where he has lived for the past years, after his mother went to prison. But the newfound freedom is bittersweet. Roaming the streets of his desolate neighborhood, alone with his hopes and fears, Manuel tries to leave the teenager behind and become a responsible adult. He must prove to the authorities that he can look after his mother if she is Granted House Arrest. Can He Give Her Back Her Freedom, Without Losing His?

Italy, 2017, 97′ Original language: Italian Director: Dario Albertini Cast: Andrea Lattanzi, Francesca Antonelli, Renato Scarpa, Giulia Elettra Gorietti, Raffaella Rea International sales: Le Pacte

Selfie

24 Wednesday 7:00 PM

Naples, Traiano district. Initially it had to be a temporary peripheral destination for the inhabitants of the slums on the seafront of Naples, left homeless after the war. But the lodgings were permanently occupied, including the basement cellars, and soon the district became a sort of ghetto. Alessandro and Pietro are two 16-years-olds who film themselves with a smartphone to tell their difficult neighborhood, their everyday life, the friendship that binds them. They also tell of the tragedy of Da vide, their neighbor who was killed innocent by a carabiniere after a chase, because he was mistaken for a fleeing wanted. He was sixteen too.

Italy, France 2019, 76′ Original language: Italian Director:Agostino Ferrente International sales: Deckert Distribution

Omaggio A Bernardo Bertolucci – The Dreamers

25 Thursday 11:00 AM

Left alone in Paris whilst their parents are on holiday, Isabelle and her brother Theo invite fellow student Matthew, a young American, to stay at their apartment. Here they make their own rules as they experiment with each other’s emotions and sexuality, playing a series of increasingly demanding mind games. Set against the turbulent political backdrop of France in Spring 1968, when the voice of youth was reverberating around Europe, THE DREAMERS is a story of self-discovery as the three students test one another to see just how far they each will go. From the novel “The Holy Innocence” by Gilbert Adair

Italy/UK/France, 2003, 130′ Original language: Italian Director: Bernardo Bertolucci Cast: Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel, Eva Green, Robin Renucci, Anna Chancellor. International sales: Hanway

Saremo Giovani E Bellissimi / We’ll Be Young And Beautiful

25 Thursday 5:00 PM

Isabella still sings Tic Tac, the song that made her famous in the early nineties, when she was only seventeen. Her place is the Big Star, which has also become her second home. Her young son Bruno is her guitarist. The two are inseparable, they perform every night together and they share a ramshackle but happy life of unpaid bills and midnight strolls around the city. Bruno, however, dreams of a different musical career. Light touches of comedy and the music bring to life the slow but necessary separation between mother and son, a crucial and painful detachment. Just like the end of any other love story.

Italy, 2018, 92′ Original language: Italian Director: Letizia La rna dire Cast: Barbora Bobulova, Alessandro Piavani, Massinniliano Gallo, Federica Sabatini, Elisabetta De Vito International sales: Rai Com

Il Cratere / Crater

25 Thursday 7:00 PM

In a cursed land, a father uses his daughter and her voice to take on the world and his own destiny. But success becomes an obsession, and talent becomes a punishment. Crater is a Disney fairy tale in reverse.

Italy, 2017, 94′ Original language: Italian Directors: Silvia Luzi, Luca Bellino Cast: Sharon Caroccia, Rosario Caroccia, Tina Amariutei, Assunta Arcella, Imma Benvenuto International sales: Alpha Violet

Ci Tempo

26 Friday 3:00 PM

Stefano, forty year-old unsettled temp who works as a rainbow observer, and Giovanni — young nerd who knows an incredible amount of things but has never known warmth and love – used to ignore each other’s existence, so much so, they didn’t even know they had a brother. Their encounter seems impossible, yet the journey they will take together, through forgotten Italian highways, will change both their lives. Because it is never too late to write a coming of age novel.

Italy/France, 2019, 107′ Original language: Italian Director: Walter Veltroni Cast: Stefano Fresi, Giovanni Fuoco, Simona Molinari, Francesca Zezza, Jean-Pierre Leaud International sales: Pattie

Troppa Grazia / Lucia’s Grace

26 Friday 5:00 PM

Single working mother Lucia is trying to find the right balance between life with her teenage daughter, a complicated romance and her career as a land surveyor. Lucia’s future is jeopardized when she realizes that an ambitious new building is environmentally dangerous due to the city council’s inaccurate maps. Lucia is torn by her decision to keep her mouth shut for fear of losing her job. A mysterious foreign woman tries to convince Lucia to stand up to her superiors and recommend a church as the only solution for the troubled building site. Lucia’s belief in miracles will soon be put to the test.

Italy/Greece/Spain, 2018, 110′ Original language: Italian Director:Gianni Za nasi Cast: Alba Rohrwacher, Elio Germano, Giuseppe Battiston, Hadas Yaron, Carlotta Natoli International sales: The Match Factory

La Paranza Dei Bambini I Piranhas

26 Friday 7:00 PM

Naples. Nicola and his friends are fifteen years old. They want to make money, buy designer clothes and brand new scooters. They play with weapons and ride around the city to take power in the district of Sanita. They love each other like family, they don’t fear prison nor death, knowing their only chance is to risk everything, now. They experience war with the irresponsibility of adolescence, but their criminal activities soon lead them to the irreversible sacrifice of love and friendship.

Italy, 2019, 105′ Original language: Italian Director: Claudio Giovannesi Cast: Francesco Di Napoli, Artenn Tkachuk, Alfredo Turitto, Viviana Aprea, Valentina Vannino International sales: Elle Driver

Guests

Silvia Luzi / Luca Belling

Luca Bellino (1978) and Silvia Luzi (1976) received several international awards and nominations for directing two previous documentaries. Tfilm, their production company is based in Rome. Tfilm’s productions are characterized by a clear authorial imprint, a style that combines observation cinema and current events. The work of Luzi and Bellino as directors and producers is focused on film projects with a strong impact. Crater is their first feature fiction film. La Minaccia (The Threat)- (86′, 2008) – more than 60 international film festivals, David Di Donatello Nomination Best Documentary, New York Young Filmakers Prize. Dell’Arte della Guerra (On The Art Of War) – (85′, 2012) – more than 50 international film festivals, 20 awards and nominations. Prix FEDEORA Best European Documentary, Best Documentary at Crossing Europe Film Festival, Leipziger Ring and Healthy Workplaces Film Award at DokLeipzig.

Lorenzo Richelmy

Lorenzo Richelmy was born in Liguria and brought up in Rome. He comes from a family of actors. He made his debut when he was 8 years old in a stage play, Zio Mario, by Mario Prosperi. He attended Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and was the youngest student ever admitted to the school. In 2002 he featured as Rocco Papaleo and Elena Sofia Ricci’s controversial son in // pram della domenica by Carlo Vanzina. He then went on to play Cesare Schifani in TV series Iliceali. Between 2010 and 2013 he won several awards as best actor and he has landed important roles in Carlo Verdone’s Sotto una buona stefia and Netflix production Marco Polo, in which he plays the leading role. He played in Rainbow – a private affair in 2017 and he is now in cinema with Dolce Roma by Fabio Resinaro.

Federica Sabatini

Born in 1992, Federica Sabatini is a young italian film, theatre and television actress. She was born in Rome, and she studied acting in 2010 with Gisella Burinato; then she joined the amous italian film school Centro Sperimenta le di Cinematografia di Roma, where she studied from 2013 to 2015. In 2016 she joins the cast of Tufa insieme all’improwiso directed by Francesco Pavolini and Un passo dal cielo 4 by Ian Maria MicheliM. She was the main actress in Rai Uno TV Movie Nozze roman directed by Olaf Kreinsen, and in the TV series Provaci ancora prof1-7. She is in the cast of the film Saremo giovani e bellissimi directed by Letitia Lamartine, presented during last edition of Settimana della Critica – parallel independent section of Venice Film Festival in 2018, in theaters last September 20th 2018. She also starred in the cast of the second season of the TV series Suburra- la serie, online on Netflix since last 22nd February.

Agostino Ferrente

Born in Cerignola, Italy in 1971, he founded the Pirata Produzioni Cinematografiche production company and belongs to the Apollo II collective which transformed a historic cinema in Rome into a cultural centre. The Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio, which was founded there, became the subject of one of his documentaries. He also created the Doc/it Award for documentaries at the Venice International Film Festival where the film Le cose belle, which he co-directed, and which narrates ten years in the life of four young Neopolitans, premiered in 2013. 1993 Paco piu della meta di zero- short film 1994 Opinioni di un pirla; short film 1999 // film di Mario; short film 2000 Intervista a mia madre; short film 2004 Scusi dov’e iI documentario?; collective documentary 2006 L’orchestra di piazza Vittorio; documentary 2013 Le cose belle; documentary, co-director: Giovanni Piperno. His last documentary Seffie was in Berlinale 2019

Mario Sesti

Mario Sesti (born 1958), has worked as specialist in film restoration of Italian postwar cinema, as film critic for Italian news-magazines and newspapers, as film programmer for IV network. He realized and directed films about Pietro Germi, Federico Fellini and the restoration process, which was shown at MoMA, at the Festival of Cannes and at the Locarno Film Festival. His publications include essays and monographs on Fritz Lang, Nanni Moretti, Jane Campion, and the detective movie. In 1997, his Tutto it cinema di Pietro Germi (The Complete Films of Pietro Germi) won in Italy the Award of Cinema Book of the Year. His work has been translated into English, French, German and Portuguese. As author and cinema scholar he visited Princeton University, University of Washington, American Academy in Rome. As Artistic Director, he worked at Rome Film Festival meeting on a stage in front of thousands of people very important directors and actors.