Event

New Italian Cinema, 2023 Edition

Friday-Sunday, December 1-3, 2023

A free admission film festival in-person made possible thanks to the support of:

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The 23rd edition of New Italian Cinema is dedicated to the memory of Robert Cargni Mitchell (1954-2023), former curator of Film at International House, unique expert of cinema, and dear friend, who exhibited Italian cinema all his life.

N.I.C.E. - New Italian Cinema Events and Penn Cinema & Media Studies, in collaboration with the Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia, PI-Philly, Penn Italian Studies, and the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, present the 2023 edition of NEW ITALIAN CINEMA EVENTS. The festival has been curated by Nicola M Gentili (Penn, Cinema & Media Studies) with N.I.C.E. directors Viviana Del Bianco, Mila Tenaglia, and Matilde Castagnoli, and aims at showing new and original Italian feature films in Philadelphia.

New Italian Cinema is a truly unique event, a collective one, a three-day festival with the intent to show and appreciate newest Italian feature films. From its origins, New Italian Cinema maintained its identity by exploring new authors. There are sometimes dramatic films that tell stories of social distress, related to problems inherent in the world of crime and corruption, or to more personal spheres such as adolescent and female growth, but also comedies that are played on the edge of an irony that highlights the social difficulties of today’s world and the various ways and styles of life.

The 2023 edition offers two special events with the screening of the latest films of renowned Italian Directors Nanni Moretti and Roberto Andò!

The festival is free and open to all. All film screenings (in Italian w/ English subtitles) will be held in the Rainey Auditorium at the Penn Museum. Please enter the Museum through the EAST ENTRANCE. If you are walking towards the museum from campus, this means walking down South Street until the furthest end of the museum, and taking a right once you approach the garages on Convention Avenue.

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Friday, December 1

Zoom Q&A with Actor Luca Chikovani featured after the screening.
12:00pm | La prima regola (The First Rule) | Massimiliano D'Epiro, 2022, 97min
A glimpse of the historical period we are experiencing: a suburban high school, structures, students and teaching staff are the exemplary mirror of a social and economic depression that seems irreversible.

Recorded introduction by Director Davide Minnella featured at the screening.
3:00pm | La cena perfetta (An Italian Gourmet Crime Story) | Davide Minnella, 2022, 106 min
Carmine runs a restaurant to launder dirty money, and finds himself collaborating with Consuelo, a chef in search of perfection.

Recorded introduction by Actress Eugenia Tamburri featured at the screening.
7:00pm | Scordato (Scordato) | Rocco Papaleo, 2023, 104 min
Orlando is a solitary man who’s full of rancor. His life is inconsistent and unfulfilled, and his past is a ghost which he needs to make peace with.

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Saturday, December 2

Recorded introduction by Actress Stefania Sandrelli and Zoom Q&A with Director Corrado Ceron featured after the screening.
12:00pm | Acqua e Anice (Olimpia's Way) | Corrado Ceron, 2022, 107 min
A "dance hall road movie" about Olimpia, a legendary ballroom dancer, who, at age seventy, dusts off her orchestra's tour bus.

Recorded introduction by Director Giuseppe Fiorello and Q&A with Actor Samuele Segreto in person featured at the screening.
3:00pm | Stranizza d'amuri (Fireworks) | Giuseppe Fiorello, 2023, 134 min
The troubled relationship between Gianni and Nino, set in the narrow-minded and prejudencial Sicily of 1982.

Recorded introduction by Director Nanni Moretti featured at the screening.
7:00pm | Il sol dell'avvenire (A Brighter Tomorrow) | Nanni Moretti, 2023, 95 min
A movie director struggles with his relationship with his family, and with his latest movie, about the impact on the Italian Communist Party of the USSR invasion of Hungary in 1956.

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Sunday, December 3

Zoom Q&A with Director Andrea Magnani featured after the screening.
12:00pm | La lunga corsa (Jailbird) | Andrea Magnani, 2022, 88 min
As the son of two inmates Hyacinth was always more at home in prison than in the outside world.

Recorded introduction by Director Roberto Andò featured at the screening.
3:00pm | La stranezza (Strangeness) | Roberto Andò, 2022, 103 min
During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets Onofrio Principato and Sebastiano Vella, two actors rehearsing a new show.

Recorded introduction by Director Carolina Cavalli featured at the screening.
7:00pm | Amanda (Amanda) | Carolina Cavalli, 2022, 93 min
Amanda, 24, lives mostly isolated and has never had any friends, even if it's the thing she wants the most.
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The festival is free and open to all. All film screenings (in Italian w/ English subtitles) will be held in the Rainey Auditorium at the Penn Museum. Please enter the Museum through the EAST ENTRANCE. If you are walking towards the museum from campus, this means walking down South Street until the furthest end of the museum, and taking a right once you approach the garages on Convention Avenue.