Event
Join us at the International House of Philadelphia for the 2014 edition of New Authors of Italian Cinema. The festival is curated by Nicola Gentilli and organized in collaboration with the Cinema Studies Program and the Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia to promote new Italian Cinema in the United States. Graduate students in the Italian PhD Program will introduce each film.
Find all information at
http://cinemastudies.sas.upenn.edu/events/2014/December/FilmFestivalNewAuthorsItalianCinema2014
http://cinemastudies.sas.upenn.edu/events/2014/December/FilmFestivalNewAuthorsItalianCinema2014
Thursday 4 December @ 5:30pm | Elisa Modolo presents
Border | Alessio Cremonini, 2013, 95 min
Two sisters flee from their city, Baniyas, through the border of Turkey, after the husband of one of them decides to join the Free Syrian Army.
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Thursday 4 December @ 8:00pm | Andrea Gazzoni presents
Blame Freud | Paolo Genovese, 2014, 120 min
A psychoanalyst coping with his three hopeless patients, who are his beloved daughters!
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Friday 5 December @ 5:30pm | Norman Rusin presents
Up To The World | Alessandro Lunardelli, 2013, 95 min
Loris and Davide are two brothers. While attending a soccer game in Barcelona, Davide meets Andy, a Chilean guy, and he falls in love.
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Friday 5 December @ 8:00pm | Michael Edwards presents
House of Shadows | Rossella De Venuto, 2014, 85 min
Megan and Leo live in Dublin. When Leo’s uncle dies, the couple decides to return to Puglia to sell the old family mansion that he has inherited.
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Saturday 6 December @ 5:30pm | Nicolò Moscatelli presents
Remember Me? | Rolando Ravello, 2014, 91 min
Roberto, a kleptomaniac, and Bea, a forgetful narcoleptic, meet at the therapist who is treating them.
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Saturday 6 December @ 8:00pm | Claudia Consolati presents
Human Capital | Paolo Virzì, 2013, 109 min
A cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve. How will this accident change the destiny of the rich Bernaschi family and the Rovelli family on the edge of bankruptcy?
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Sunday 7 December @ 5:30pm | Peter Lesnik presents
The Medicines Seller | Antonio Morabito, 2013, 103 min
Bruno, a pharmaceutical representative, becomes the final link in the 'sweetheart dealing' chain to persuade doctors to prescribe the drugs of his company.
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Sunday 7 December @ 8:00pm | Alessandra Mirra presents
In the Snow | Stefano Incerti, 2013, 90 min
The encounter between two people whose destinies would otherwise hardly touch.
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