Roll out the red carpet as Moviemov: Italian Cinema Now returns this April 23-26, 2019 at the Cinematheque Centre Manila at the Film Development Council of the Philippines.
Now in its fifth edition here in the country, Moviemov this year will focus on Authors of Cinema of Reality, featuring a selection of eight of the most representative and awarded movies of the last cinema season namely Una questione privata/Rainbow – A Private Affair, Manuel, Saremo giovanj e bellisimi/We'll Be Young and Beautiful, C'è tempo, Il cratere/Crater, La paranza dei bambini/Piranhas, Selfie, and Troppa grazia/Lucia's Grace. The festival will also pay tribute to Bernardo Bertolucci through the screening of The Dreamers. The films will be in their original Italian language with English subtitles. Admission is for free on a first come, first served basis.
Aside from the screenings, the festival will also see the arrival of a delegation from Italy composed of directors Silvia Luzi, Luca Bellino and Agostino Ferrente, actors Lorenzo Richelmy and Federica Sabatini, film critic Mario Sesti, and film producer Daniele Orazi. They will present their respective films at the screenings while some will conduct masterclasses for the educational component of the festival.
Moviemov: Italian Cinema Now is created and directed by Goffredo Bettini and organized by Playtown Roma, the Moviemov is realized thanks to the MIBACT (Directorate-General for Cinema of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism) and SIAE (the Italian Society of Authors and Publishers), with the collaboration of the Italian Embassy in Philippines, the Philippine Italian Association, and the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP).
Here are the selection of films for Moviemov: Italian Cinema Now 2019.
Una questione privata/Rainbow – A Private Affair
Director: Vittorio Taviani, Paolo Taviani
Cast: Luca Marinelli, Lorenzo Richelmy, Valentina Bellè, Francesca Agostini, Jacopo Olmo Antinori
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.
Manuel
Director: Dario Albertini
Cast: Andrea Lattanzi, Francesca Antonelli, Renato Scarpa, Giulia Elettra Gorietti, Raffaella Rea
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?
Saremo giovani e belissimi/We'll Be Young and Beautiful
Director: Letizia Lamartire
Cast: Barbora Bobulova, Alessandro Piavani, Massimiliano Gallo, Federica Sabatini, Elisabetta De Vito
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.
C'è tempo
Director: Walter Veltroni
Cast: Stefano Fresi, Giovanni Fuoco, Simona Molinari, Francesca Zezza, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Stefano is a 40 year old with two different jobs: staring at rainbows and guardian of a mirror that reflects the sunbeams illuminating the town of Viganella, where he just moved with his wife Luciana.
While he is guarding the mirror, a notary comes to Stefano giving him the tuition of a kid, Giovanni, that appears to be his brother - one of the many children his father gave birth. The two different brothers start to know each other and the story turns out to be a road movie between Emilia Romagna and Tuscany in the centre of Italy.
Il cratere/Crater
Director: Silvia Luzi, Luca Bellini
Cast: Sharon Caroccia, Rosario Caroccia, Tina Amariutei, Assunta Arcella, Imma Benvenuto
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.
La paranza dei bambini/Piranhas
Director: Claudio Giovannesi
Cast: Francesco Di Napoli, Artem Tkachuk, Alfredo Turitto, Viviana Aprea, Valentina Vannino
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 Sanità. 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.
Selfie
Director: Agostino Ferrente
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 Davide, their neighbor who was killed innocent by a carabiniere after a chase, because he was mistaken for a fleeing wanted. He was sixteen too. It happened to Davide, but it could also happen to Alessandro or Pietro... That's why the director gave them his smartphone, asking them to film themselves in "selfie" mode, as if they looked in a mirror themselves, their world, their life.
Troppa grazia/Lucia's Grace
Director: Gianni Zanasi
Cast: Alba Rohrwacher, Elio Germano, Giuseppe Battiston, Hadas Yaron, Carlotta Natoli
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.
The Dreamers
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Cast: Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel, Eva Green, Robin Renucci, Anna Chancellor
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.
Here is the screening schedule for Moviemov 2019.
April 23, 2019 (Invitational)
7:30 PM Una questione privata/Rainbow – A Private Affair
April 24, 2019
5:00 PM Manuel
7:00 PM Selfie
April 25, 2019
11:00 AM The Dreamers
5:00 PM Saremo giovani e belissimi/We'll Be Young and Beautiful
7:00 PM Il cratere/Crater
April 26, 2019
3:00 PM C'è tempo
5:00 PM Troppa grazia/Lucia's Grace
7:00 PM La paranza dei bambini/Piranhas
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