ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL

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In partnership with
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SCHEDULE
20 April | Wednesday
6.30 pm
An Italian Name
(Il nome del figlio)
(BY INVITATION ONLY)
National Museum of Singapore,
Gallery Theatre
21 April | Thursday
6.50 pm
An Italian Name
(Il nome del figlio)
GV Plaza
22 April | FRIday
7 pm
Mafia & Red Tomatoes
(La nostra terra)
GV Plaza
22 April | FRIday
9 pm
God Willing
(Se Dio vuole)
GV Plaza
23 April | Saturday
2pm
I Mostri
National Museum of Singapore,
Gallery Theatre
23 April | Saturday
4.30 pm
Blood of My Blood
(Sangue del mio sangue)
GV Plaza
23 April | Saturday
7 pm
My Mother (Mia madre)
GV Plaza
23 April | Saturday
9 pm
An Italian Name
(Il nome del figlio)
GV Plaza
24 April | Sunday
2 pm
Rocco and His Brothers
(Rocco e i suoi fratelli)
National Museum of Singapore,
Gallery Theatre
24 April | Sunday
4.20 pm
Italo
GV Plaza
24 April | Sunday
6.45 pm
Wondrous Boccaccio
(Maraviglioso Boccaccio)
GV Plaza
24 April | Sunday
9 pm
Mafia & Red Tomatoes
(La nostra terra)
GV Plaza
25 April | Monday
7 pm
Italo
GV Plaza
25 April | Monday
9 pm
My Mother (Mia madre)
GV Plaza
26 April | TUESday
7 pm
First Light
(La prima luce)
GV Plaza
26 April | TUESday
9 pm
Blood of My Blood
(Sangue del mio sangue)
GV Plaza
27 April | WEDNESDAY
7 pm
Wondrous Boccaccio
(Maraviglioso Boccaccio)
GV Plaza
1 May
2 pm
8 1/2 (OTTO E MEZZO)
The Projector
| Sunday
Tickets at
S$ 13.00
(S$ 12.00 for members of the Italian Cultural Institute,
Italian Association of Singapore and Singapore
Film Society members, upon presentation of a valid
membership card in person at Box offices. Limited to
one discounted ticket per member per session).
Box Office machines, AXS Stations and online at www.
gv.com.sg.
Tickets for the screenings at the National Museum of
Singapore (93 Stamford Road, S 178897) are available
ONLY online at: www.apactix.com.
Tickets for the screening at The Projector (#05-00
Golden Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road, S 199589) are
available online at: http://theprojector.sg
Sessions will start punctually at the indicated times.
Films rated R21 are suitable for persons aged 21 and
above; M18 - suitable for persons aged 18 and above;
NC16 - suitable for persons aged 16 and above;
PG13 - suitable for persons aged 13 and above but
parental guidance is advised for children below 13;
PG - suitable for all, but parents should guide their
young; G- suitable for all ages.
Proof of age is required at the point of purchase and
For more information visit: www.iicsingapore.esteri.
at the point of admission. The organizers reserve
it, www.gv.com.sg, www.apactix.com and www.
the right to refuse admission if such proof cannot be
Festival tickets are on sale from 7 April.
nationalmuseum.sg.
produced. The National Museum will offer for each
Tickets to the screenings at Golden Village Plaza Information provided in this booklet is correct at purchased ticket one free ticket to the history Gallery
(#07-01 Plaza Singapura, 68 Orchard Road, S 238839) the time of printing and subject to change due to and special exhibitions to all Italian Film Festival
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Paolo Crudele
Ambassador of Italy to
Singapore
Opening the Italian Film
Festival is always a great
occasion
to
celebrate
Italian cinema and present
to Singaporeans not only a
selection of the top films
produced and released in
Italy last year, but also a
glance of contemporary
Italy through the filmic eye.
with the Singapore
International
film
Festival from its very
beginning. As a matter of
fact, the Italian Film festival
was initially a special
“section” of the renowned
International
Singapore
Film Festival. The strong
demand for Italian cinema
has lead the Italian cultural
Institute to launch its own
Festival in 2003 in order to
bring a rich and diversified
program to Singaporean
movie-goers that have
always responded very
positively to the festival.
Hence, the IFF has become
a
yearly
tradition
in
Singapore and has been
running for the past 14
years featuring the finest of
Italian cinematography.
Since the very beginning of
the Republic of Singapore
in
1965,
the
Italian
Embassy has strived to
bring the very best of
Italian music, art, cinema
and theatre to Singapore,
and has continued with
this
commitment
with
the establishment of a
permanent Italian Cultural
Institute in 1989. In the field
of cinema, the Embassy
and the Cultural Institute
have a long history of Cinema remains the most
collaborating
with
the immediate medium to bring
Singapore Film Society and together diverse cultures
and bridge differences
by
finding
common
denominators and themes.
I believe that there is no
better way to celebrate the
strong cultural relationship
between our two countries
than by presenting a
week-long
programme
that features a popular
combination of the best in
contemporary Italian cinema
balanced with a celebration
of Italy’s unparalleled movie
heritage.
My thanks and appreciation
go to the Italian Cultural
Institute in Singapore as
well as the Cinematèque
of the National Museum
of Singapore and the
Singapore Film Society for
organizing this 14th Edition
of the Italian Film Festival.
Have a great week of Italian
cinema.
Veronica Manson
Director
Italian Cultural Institute
Welcome to the 14th Edition
of the Italian Film Festival in
Singapore. The idea behind
this year’s film selection is to
present a showcase of Italian
movies to the Singaporean
audience, all movies which
have won awards or were
official entries in the
major international film
festivals over the past 12
months. Each movie in this
year’s program has won or
participated in major film
festivals worldwide. Some
say we are witnessing
a new “renaissance” of
Italian cinema, as Italian
filmmakers are reaping
awards in Berlin (2016),
Cannes (2015) and Venice
(2015) just to name a few.
Italian cinema is very much
alive and well, bringing
emerging and well-known
film directors into the
international spotlight.
The opening film is “An
Italian Name” by Francesca
Archibugi, winner of Italy’s
“Best New Director” Award
2015. The story is an
uncanny portrayal of the
psychological dynamics that
affect friends and family
when facing surprising
news.
The other Italian
films featured in the Festival
include: “My Mother”, winner
of the Ecumenical Jury at
the Cannes film festival
2015, by renowned film
director Nanni Moretti about
t h e
struggle
of
a
woman film
director juggling
work and family.
From
the
Venice
Film Festival – where
it won the prestigious
International Federation of
Film Critics Award – Marco
Bellocchio presents “Blood
of my Blood”. The festival
continues with “Wondrous
Boccaccio” by the famed
Vittorio and Paolo Taviani
in their latest Tuscanbased tale inspired by the
medieval
masterpiece
“Decameron” by Boccaccio.
“Mafia and Red Tomatoes”
by Giulio Manfredonia is a
drama based on the reallife work of a young farming
cooperative in the Puglia
region battling a ruthless
local mafia clan.
This
year’s line-up also includes
“God Willing” by Edoardo
Falcone, who also won
Best New Italian Director
in 2015. This box office
success tells the hilarious
story of an atheist surgeon,
a charismatic priest and
a
dysfunctional
family.
Completing the program,
the Festival features the
tender story of boy
and his dog in “Italo” by
Alessia Scarso and, finally,
“First Light” by Vincenzo
Marra an intense story that
portrays the difficulties of
an international divorce and
custody battle.
This year, in addition to
these contemporary Italian
movies, the Festival features
also a Classic Section with
three beautifully restored
masterpieces: “Rocco and
his Brothers” by Luchino
Visconti, “I mostri”, by Dino
Risi, a fine example of
desecratory 1960’s Italian
comedy and
a special
screening of “8 and ½”
by Federico Fellini, copresented with the Institut
Francais de Singapour on
the occasion of the 120 years
of Gaumont, which was the
co-producer of the film.
expressing
my
While
gratitude to this year’s
Partners (the Singapore
Museum,
GV
National
Multiplex, and the Singapore
Film Society), I would also
like to extend thanks to
our generous Sponsors for
making this special edition
of the festival possible in
hopes that this edition of
the Italian Film Festival
will entertain and connect
you with Italy through its
cinema.
Buona visione; Enjoy the
movies!
AN ITALIAN NAME
(IL NOME DEL FIGLIO)
By Francesca Archibugi
21 April | Thursday
23 April | Saturday
GV Plaza
6.50 pm
9 pm
2015, 94 mins, Comedy
English subtitles
Rating: NC16 (some coarse language)
Cast:
Alessandro Gassmann
Valeria Golino
Luigi Lo Cascio
Rocco Papaleo
Micaela Ramazzotti
The extrovert Paolo and
the beautiful Simona are
expecting. At a dinner
with Betta and Sandro,
the refined and literate
couple, and Claudio, the
eccentric musician, one
question will lead to an
argument that will shake
up the night: the name
of Paolo and Simona’s
son.
MAFIA & RED TOMATOES
(LA NOSTRA TERRA)
By Giulio Manfredonia
22 April | Friday
24 April | Sunday
GV Plaza
7 pm
9 pm
2014, 100 mins, Comedy
English subtitles
Rating: PG13 (some coarse language)
Cast:
Stefano Accorsi
Sergio Rubini
Maria Rosaria Russo
Iaia Forte
Nicola Rignanese
Giovanni Calcagno
Planting tomatoes may
seem safe enough,
except when that activity
is conducted on land
confiscated from mafia
bosses. The land is given
to an agriculture co-op
of young, idealistic and
utterly inexperienced
group of farmers. The
co-op is boycotted daily by
the local mafia so much
so that the government’s
Anti-Mafia Board sends
Federico, a competent
lawyer with no field
experience. Federico is
petrified at first by the
gigantic task he faces, but
he is inspired thanks to
the courage and passion of
the mismatched members
of the co-op.
Based on the real-life
work of the association
“Libera” (Free), the film
tackles these issues with a
smile and redemptive joy.
GOD WILLING
(SE DIO VUOLE)
By Edoardo Falcone
22 April | Friday 9 pm
GV Plaza
2015, 87 mins, Comedy
English subtitles
Rating: PG13 (some sexual references)
Cast:
Marco Giallini
Alessandro Gassmann
Laura Morante
Ilaria Spada
Edoardo Pesce
Enrico Oetiker
Tommaso is a respected
heart surgeon, married
with two children. One
day, the oldest son
decides to gather his
family and takes the
courage to open up:
“I met a person who
changed my life and
that person is Jesus.
This is why I decided to
become a priest!” For
Tommaso, an atheist,
having a priest as a
son is a terrible blow.
The announcement
leads father and son on
a hilarious journey of
mutual discovery.
• Best New Director –
David di Donatello Awards
2015
• Festival du Cinema
Italien de Bastia 2016: En
Compétition
Prix du Public
• Annecy Cinema Italien
2015: Competition Fiction
Films
Audience Award, Best
Actor (Marco Giallini)
• Tokyo International Film
Festival 2015: Competition
Audience Award
• Villerupt Italian Film
Festival 2015: Compétition
Amilcar du Public,
Mention spéciale du Jury
Jeunes
I MOSTRI
By Dino Risi
23 April | Saturday 2 pm
National Museum of Singapore,
Gallery Theatre
1963 , (b/w), 118 mins, Comedy
English subtitles
Rating: PG13 (some sexual references)
Cast:
Ugo Tognazzi
Vittorio Gassman
Lando Buzzanca
Punctuated by a perfect
pace and fierce and
withering incisiveness,
I mostri offers a
panorama of Italianness
in its variations of
semi-criminal cunning,
hypocrisy, cynicism,
oiliness, opportunism,
exploitation and
systematic deception
of others. The deadly
sins of a humanity
greedy for prosperity
(these are the boom
years) are described
without indulgence or
complacency, and with
the perfect measure
of a black and bitter
humor. Ugo Tognazzi
and Vittorio Gassman,
at times victims and
at times executioners,
are extraordinary both
in their histrionics
shades and with the
nuances they give their
characters. Among
the most memorable
episodes are La nobile
arte, with a clobbered
boxer played by
Gassman and the simian
vulture-manager by
Tognazzi, L’oppio dei
popoli on the already
devastating effects of
television, La giornata
dell’onorevole in which
Tognazzi, a Christian
Democrat minister,
succeeds in neutralizing
an old gentleman who
had come to report
a wrongdoing, using
a strategy of neverending and Kafkaesque
antechambers.
Source: 72nd Venice
International Film Festival
Restored by the National
Cinema Museum and the
Cineteca di Bologna in
collaboration with RTI,
Lion Film Ltd, Surf Film.
my blood
BLOOD OF MY BLOOD
(SANGUE
DEL MIO
SANGUE)
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del
mio
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marco
bellocchio
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By Marco Bellocchio
23 April | Saturday 4.30 pm
26 April | Tuesday 9 pm
GV Plaza
2015, 106 mins, Drama
English subtitles
M18 (nudity)
Cast:
Roberto Herlitzka
Pier Giorgio Bellocchio
Lidiya Liberman
Fausto Russo Alesi
Alba Rohrwacher
Federico, a young priest,
is summoned by the
17th Century Inquisition
to a convent prison in
the town of Bobbio. His
mission is to coerce
Sister Benedetta to
confess that she has
seduced and driven
to death her previous
confessor, Federico’s
brother.
Benedetta must undergo
three trials - water, fire
and tears - to prove her
innocence if she does
not confess. Federico,
too, falls under the
spell of the hypnotic
Benedetta.
The present-day Bobbio
prison is run-down
and abandoned. Tax
investigator Federico
is helping a Russian
millionaire buy the old
ruin. But a secretive
old man has been
living there for years.
He is only occasionally
seen out at night, and
is referred to as “The
Count”. Federico needs
to prove the man is a
fraud to make the big
sale
La Biennale di Venezia
2015: Venezia 72 FIPRESCI Prize
MY MOTHER
(MIA MADRE)
By Nanni Moretti
23 April | Saturday 7 pm
25 April | Monday 9 pm
GV Plaza
2015, 107 mins, Drama
English subtitles
PG13 (some coarse language)
Cast: Margherita Buy
John Turturro
Giulia Lazzarini
Nanni Moretti
Beatrice Mancini
Margherita is a director
shooting a film with the
famous American actor,
Barry Huggins, who is
quite a headache on set.
Away from the shoot,
Margherita tries to hold
her life together, despite
her mother’s illness
and her daughter’s
adolescence.
• Cannes 2015, Official
Competition, Ecumenical
Jury Prize
• David Di Donatello
Award, Best Actress
(Margherita Buy) and Best
Supporting Actress (Giulia
Lazzarini)
ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS
(ROCCO E I SUOI FRATELLI)
By Luchino Visconti
24 April | Sunday 2 pm
National Museum of Singapore,
Gallery Theatre
1960, (b/w), 180 mins
English subtitles
Rating: PG13 (some violence)
Cast:
Alain Delon
Renato Salvatori
Katina Paxinou
Annie Girardot
Roger Hanin
Paolo Stoppa
Suzy Delair
Claudia Cardinale
Operatic in scope,
and artfully blending
emotionalism and
realism, Luchino
Visconti’s “Rocco e i
suoi fratelli” (1960) was
inspired by the migration
of southern families
to northern Italian
cities, often resulting
in the dissolution of
family relationships
and values. The film
explores themes of
family, jealousy, loyalty,
sexuality, sin, and
forgiveness, against a
socio-political backdrop
of economic disparity
and evolving concepts of
masculinity.
Exquisitely photographed
by legendary
cinematographer
Giuseppe Rotunno, the
film follows five brothers
and their anxious mother
as they adapt to the city’s
harsh realities. Two of
the young men, Rocco
(Alain Delon) and Simone
(Renato Salvatori),
become involved with the
same woman, a prostitute
named Nadia (Annie
Girardot), with tragic
results.
Source: 68th Cannes Film Festival
Restored in 4K by Cineteca
di Bologna at L’Immagine
Ritrovata Laboratory, in
collaboration with Titanus,
TF1 Droits Audiovisuels
and The Film Foundation.
Restoration with funding
provided by Gucci and The
Film Foundation.
l’immagine
ritrovata
film restoration
& conservation
ITALO
By Alessia Scarso
24 April | Sunday 4.20 pm
25 April | Monday 7 pm
GV Plaza
2015, 104 mins, Family
English subtitles
PG
Cast:
Marco Bocci
Elena Radonicich,
Barbara Tabita
Lucia Sardo
Based on a true story,
Italo Barocco vividly
depicts the life-altering
friendship between an
extraordinary dog and
a lonely child. One day,
a good natured stray
dog by the name of
Italo, wanders into the
small Sicilian town of
Scicli. But Italo’s arrival
causes a terrible uproar
in the village, everyone
there is fiercely opposed
to having stray dogs
around.
Everyone except Meno,
a precociously wise
10 year-old, who is as
lonely and introverted as
can be. Since his mother
passed away Meno
has shut everyone out,
including his workaholic
father. It will take all
the unconditional love
a special dog like Italo
can give to force Meno
out of his shell, leading
him into a series of
adventures that will
teach him the difference
between acting like a
grown up and actually
becoming one.
WONDROUS BOCCACCIO
(MARAVIGLIOSO BOCCACCIO)
By
Paolo & Vittorio Taviani
24 April | Sunday
6.45 pm
27 April | Wednesday 7 pm
GV Plaza
2015, 121 min,
Comedy/Drama/History
English subtitles
M18 (some mature content and nudity)
Cast:
Jasmine Trinca
Kim Rossi Stuart
Michele Riondino
Riccardo Scamarcio
Paola Cortellesi
Kasia Smutniak
Lello Arena
Florence, Italy, 1348. As
the plague ravages the
city dwellers of Tuscany,
a group of young men and
women takes shelter in
a remote villa in the hills
surrounding Florence. Now
living as a community, they
decide to tell each other
a story a day to take their
minds off their precarious
situation.
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
return after Cesar must die
(2012, Golden Berlin Bear)
to celebrate the power of
youth, love and poetry in a
colourful adaptation of The
Decameron by Giovanni
Boccaccio, a masterpiece
of classical Italian
literature.
Images courtesy of:
copyright “Umberto Montiroli”
FIRST LIGHT
(LA PRIMA LUCE)
By Vincenzo Marra
26 April | Tuesday 7 pm
GV Plaza
2015, 108 mins, Drama
English subtitles
PG13 (some coarse language)
Cast:
Riccardo Scamarcio
Daniela Ramirez
Gianni Pezzolla
Luis Gnecco
Alejandro Goic
Marco and Martina are a
seemingly happy couple,
with a beautiful eight year
old, Mateo. But Martina is
longing to leave Italy—and
Marco—for a different
life, back in her native
Chile. Martina abruptly
departs for South America,
deciding to take along her
son Mateo, against the
father’s will.
La Biennale di Venezia 2015:
Giornate degli Autori Venice
Days, Official Selection
Special Pasinetti Prize
8 1/2
(OTTO E MEZZO)
By
Federico Fellini
(French and Italian co-production)
1 May | Sunday 2pm
The Projector
1963, 135 mins, Drama
English subtitles
PG
Cast:
Marcello Mastroianni
Sandra Milo
Claudia Cardinale
Jointly presented by Institut Français Singapour – French Embassy and Italian
Culture Institute Singapore
In conjunction with Gaumont exhibition at National Design Centre
Celebrating the 120 years of Gaumont
Part of:
Guido Anselmi (Marcello
Mastroianni) is at a
crisis point in his life
and his work; in the
opening sequence, Guido,
suffocating, is caught in
traffic with the windows
of his car locked shut.
He climbs out of the
sunroof and literally rises
up over the highway into
the clouds, seemingly
free, when he realizes
there’s a rope tied around
his ankle that is violently
pulling him back to
earth. Cutting from this
dream to the health spa
where Guido is trying to
recapture his creativity
and write the screenplay
for his next film, his
vices become clear:
Guido is self-absorbed,
and he’s distracted by
the fabulous cast of
actresses, intellectuals,
and eccentrics who have
joined him at the spa.
Additionally he struggles
with Freudian complexes
about his wife (Anouk
Aime), his lover (Sandro
Milo), his ideal woman
(Claudia Cardinale), and
his dead parents; and his
repressive Catholic guilt
follows him everywhere
like a haunting mist.
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