The Italian cinema starring in the U.S.
The NICE Film Festival (New Italian Cinema Events) is back in the U.S. for the 21st edition. It will start at the Anthology Film Archives-Courthouse Theatre in New York from November 10 to November 13 and in San Francisco at Landmark's Embarcadero Center Cinema, from November 13 until November 20. This Festival was founded in Firenze in 1991 like a cultural non-profit organization aimed to promote the new Italian cinema abroad.
Because of the success of the Festival, many important organizations such as the Tribeca Film Festival, collaborated with the Nice.
This year, like in the past editions, the selection committee chose eight films from emerging last year film production, which will be voted by the public and that will compete for the prize NICE “Città di Firenze 2011”.
The festival will be inaugurated by the U.S. premieres of Daniele Lucchetti’s movie, “Our Life” (La Nostra Vita): a dramatic movie that shows the truly condition of Italian workers with Elio Germano, who won the Palme d'Or at Cannes for this film.
The Nice Film Festival will continue the next days with other innovative and original Italian films, like “A Quiet Life” (Una vita tranquilla) by Claudio Cupellini, a thriller movie with one of the best Italian actor alive, Toni Servillo who plays an ex criminal moved to Germany; “The First Assignment” (Il primo incarico) by Giorgia Cerere; “20 Cigarettes” (20 Sigarette) by Aureliano Amadei, a young and impudent documentary in which the director wants to share his experience of the attack on April 27, 2006 in Nassiryya.
“One life, Maybe two” (Due vite per caso) by Alessandro Aronadio; “The Jewel” (Il gioellino) by Andrea Molaioli, a movie describing in a forceful way the events that led to the historic bankruptcy of Italian company Parmalat; “This world is for you” (Questo mondo è per te) by Francesco Falaschi; “The father and the foreigner” (Il padre e lo straniero) by Ricky Tognazzi and “Some say no” (C’è chi dice no) by Giambattista Avellino. The Nice Film Festival will see its end with a preview of one of the most famous contemporary Italian directors, Nanni Moretti, who will present for the first time in America, “Habemus Papam”.
The film tells ironically the crisis of a Pope helped by an unusual psychiatrist. “Habemus Papam” will be distributed in U.S after this preview. The award will be assigned on December 9 at the Odeon cinema in Florence.
The New Italian Film Festival is a very important opportunity and spotlight for the revival of Italian cinema.
Nice has also helped organizing festivals of Italian cinema in Scotland (1992), Puerto Rico (1993), New Zealand (1998/ 2000) and Brazil (2001, 2002). Nice initiatives are sponsored and supported by: the Ministry of Heritage and Culture - General Direction for Cinema, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Embassy of Italy, Consulates General of Italy, Italian Cultural Institute of the host countries; City of Florence, Department of Culture of the Municipality of Florence, Oblate Library.
The events are made in collaboration with New York University -Tisch School of the Arts, New York Film Academy, Casa Italian Zerilli-Marimò, San Francisco Film Society, Susan Batson Studio Llc, Museum of Cinema in Moscow. In California, the Festival takes place in collaboration with the Consulate General of Italy in San Francisco, the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco and the San Francisco Film Society, a sophisticated organization that want to support the progressive evolution of film culture.
Its work is very decisive to show to its expert audience, independent and innovational international movies.
I wish that you will enjoy the Nice Film Festival.
For more information, please visit the following websites: www.nicefestival.org, www.sffs.org, www.iicsanfrancisco.esteri.it/IIC_Sanfrancisco
Valentina Calabrese
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