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ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL
Lavazza Italian Film Festival
 
where:Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Hobart, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth (Australia)
when:September 16th - October 28th, 2009
e-mail:info@italianfilmfestival....
web site:www.italianfilmfestival.c...
ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL

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Get set for the tenth annual Lavazza Italian Film Festival presented by Palace Cinemas, which will blaze across Australian cinema screens from September 16 until October 28. The Festival celebrates a decade of laughter, tears, suspense, high drama and unrequited love in 2009, with a brilliant selection of contemporary Italian cinema that will transport Australian audiences to this land of passion. Italians are renowned for boisterous emotions and zest for life, and this outstanding programme of films presents the country in her many colourful guises. The critically acclaimed, Cannes-nominated drama VINCERE has been selected as the Opening Night film. Part love story, part mystery and epic in its scale, VINCERE, from auteur Marco Bellocchio (GOOD MORNING, NIGHT), tells the little-known but heartbreaking story of Ida Dalsar, the first wife of Benito Mussolini, whose role in the tyrant’s rise to power has all but been airbrushed from history. Starring the ravishing Giovanna Mezzorgiorno (FACING WINDOWS) in a career-best performance, VINCERE is a film that will haunt you long after the credits have rolled.
2009:
A PERFECT DAY by Ferzan Ozpetek
AS GOD COMMANDS by Gabriele Salvatores
BRAVE MEN by Edoardo Winspeare
EARLY BIRD CATCHES THE WORM, THE by Francesco Patierno
FORTAPÀSC by Marco Risi
GIOVANNA’S FATHER by Pupi Avati
GIULIA DOESN’T DATE AT NIGHT by Giuseppe Piccioni
LAST PULCINELLA, THE by Maurizio Scaparro
MAN WHO LOVES, THE by Maria Sole Tognazzi
MANY KISSES LATER by Fausto Brizzi
MID-AUGUST LUNCH by Giovanni di Gregorio
PUCCINI AND THE GIRL by Paolo Benvenuti
SICILIAN GIRL, THE by Marco Amenta
VINCERE by Marco Bellocchio: Opening Film
2008:
A WHOLE LIFE AHEAD by Paolo Virzì: Panorama
AT A GLANCE by Sergio Rubini: Panorama
BLACK AND WHITE by Cristina Comencini: Panorama
CARAVAGGIO by Angelo Longoni: Panorama
CARDIOFITNESS by Fabio Tagliavia: Panorama
DAYS AND CLOUDS by Silvio Soldini: Panorama
DIVO, IL by Paolo Sorrentino: Panorama
DON'T THINK ABOUT IT by Gianni Zanasi : Panorama
FEAST, THE by Mimmo Calopresti: Panorama
GIRL BY THE LAKE, THE by Andrea Molaioli : Panorama
GOOD MORNING HEARTACHE by Anna Negri: Panorama
HOTEL MEINA by Carlo Lizzani: Panorama
LESSONS IN CHOCOLATE by Claudio Cupellini: Panorama
ME, THE OTHER by Mohsen Melliti: Panorama
ORA DI PUNTA, L' by Vincenzo Marra: Panorama
PIANO SOLO by Riccardo Milani: Panorama
RESTO DELLA NOTTE, IL by Francesco Munzi: Panorama
SORRY IF I LOVE YOU by Federico Moccia: Panorama
SWEET AND THE BITTER, THE by Andrea Porporati: Panorama
TELL ME ABOUT LOVE by Silvio Muccino: Panorama
UNKNOWN, THE by Giuseppe Tornatore: Panorama
VICEROYS, THE by Roberto Faenza: Panorama
WALTZ, THE by Salvatore Maira: Panorama
WILD BLOOD by Marco Tullio Giordana: Panorama
2007:
KREUTZER SONATA, THE by Maurizio Sciarra : Panorama
A DINNER FOR THEM TO MEET by Pupi Avati: Panorama
APNEA by Roberto Dordit: Panorama
BACIAMI PICCINA by Roberto Cimpanelli: Panorama
DARK SEA by Roberta Torre: Panorama
LARK FARM, THE by Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani: Panorama
MANUALE D'AMORE 2 (CAPITOLI SUCCESSIVI) by Giovanni Veronesi: Panorama
NIGHT BEFORE FINALS, THE by Fausto Brizzi: Panorama
ONE HUNDRED NAILS by Ermanno Olmi : Panorama
ONE OUT OF TWO by Eugenio Cappuccio: Panorama
OUR COUNTRY by Francesca Comencini: Panorama
SECRET JOURNEY by Roberto Andò : Panorama
WALTZ, THE by Salvatore Maira: Panorama
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