A Journey Called Love    
 

The film portrays the life and loves of writer and poet Sibilla (Rina) Aleramo, from her adolescence to womanhood, focusing on the years when she met and fell in love with poet Dino Campana. When she was merely a teenager, Rina’s mother, distressed from her husbands continuous betrayals tried to commit suicide, leaving Rina the responsibility of caring for her younger siblings. Soon after, Rina marries a violent and cruel man, leaving her pregnant and emotionally devastated. Rina decides to runs away to Florence where she surrounds herself with intellectuals. She becomes involved in a series of intense yet brief romantic affairs. Her high and absolute ideal of love leads her to consider every one of her relationships important and meaningful, and not just simple, casual affairs. The long series of relationships continues until she meets a man whose work and personality seem to match her own. The great poet Dino Campana is able to show Rina what the true journey of love is all about.
           
         
  Balla Che Ti Passa
(Dance Like No One Is Watching)		        
  Sebastian, a young Canadian writer living in Italy, begins to write a film about his worst fears and phobias - solitude, unhappiness and love. As the story progresses, his imaginary world begins to take on a reality of its own as passion, emotion and movement are portrayed and represented by different characters. As he struggles with the black and white realities of his life, his imagination abounds with colours, characters and scenarios. As he learns about himself, the unpredictability of life and love take over and his realization that in order to succeed one must sometimes compromise.
    Note: Director Joseph Tito will be present for the screening
         
  The Best Day Of My Life        
  Irene, a mother of three grown children, regrets not being able to pass on the “family” feeling she grew up with to her own children. Sara, the eldest, has been living in complete emotional isolation ever since her husband died. She spends the evenings waiting for her son Marco to come home, in constant fear that something awful has happened to him. This is until a mysterious man named Sandro appears, and shakes up Sara’s uneventful life. Rita, Irene’s other daughter, seems to lead a more fulfilled life, married to husband Carlo, with two daughters, Silvia and Chiara. But behind the facade lies deep discontent, where she is no longer able to have sexual relations with her husband, and instead is charmed by a new man who has entered her life. Claudio, the youngest, is a lawyer who is frustrated by the secrecy of his homosexuality, and is forced to choose his path by a young man named Luca. The unhappiness and repressed desires are inevitably weighing upon the siblings, whose parents are swept up by an emotional earthquake.
           
         
  Christmas In Love        
  Renowned aesthetic surgeon Fabrizio Barbetti (De Sica) still harbours hatred towards his ex wife Lisa (Ferilli), despite their divorce five years ago. They studiously avoid one another. They will meet again at Christmas, with their new companions Angela (D’Aquino) and Gabriele (Bocci), and they will be amazed...
Guido Baldi (Boldi) is a successful 50-year-old, with a beautiful wife and a beloved daughter. In a midlife crisis, he meets a young model and embarks on a risky extramarital relation. Meanwhile, his daughter has met and fallen in lover with an older gentleman (De Vito). At Christmas time, the two couples meet – and clash – in the same house...
Concetta (Barbera), a nice woman from a Southern Italian village, is a dedicated fan of The Bold and the Beautiful. She never missed an episode in over 16 years. The best day in Concetta's life comes when she wins a “Christmas with Ridge” competition: the prize is a weeklong vacation with her idol, Ronn Moss. Is this her dream come true... or a nightmare?
           
         
  The Clan        
  This movie tells the story of two Italian mechanics who travel to the United States, pursuing their own American dream.
Franco (De Sica) and Dino (Conticini) go to Las Vegas to take part in a Harley-Davidson motorbike meeting, hoping to win a prize that would solve many of their problems. However, bad luck seems to haunt them all along their journey. Everything begins when their bikes get stolen. This, however, will inspire them to give space to another great passion of theirs: music.
Franco and Dino meet an Italian immigrant italiano, budding showman Sammy (Torkia), and together the three of them create the Clan, plunging straight into a new adventure in the glittering world of show business.
Success, money, women come hard and fast, but just when everything looks perfect, troubles start a fresh...
           
         
  L’Oro Di Napoli
(The Gold of Naples)		        
  Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Zavattini, and Giuseppe Marotta wrote this anthology of tales depicting various aspects of Neapolitan life, with the emphasis of poignancy and comedy: "The Racketeer" features Toto with a gangster as his unwanted house guest; "Pizza On Credit" gave Sophia Loren one of her first starring roles, as a wayward wife who loses her wedding ring; "The Gambler" stars De Sica in a hilarious performance as a compulsive gambler whose rich family won't give him money, so he's reduced to playing cards with the young son of his servant; "Theresa" features Silvana Mangano as a prostitute who discovers that a man really does have to be crazy to marry her. (Two other episodes were cut for the film's U.S. release.)
           
         
  Masaniello
(Love and Liberty)		        
  The film narrates the story of Tommaso Aniello d'Amalfi, well known as Masaniello, a Neapolitan fishmonger who led the riot against the harsh rule of the Duke of Arcos, representative of King Philip IV of Spain, in the southern Italian seaport of Naples in July 1647. "I began loving this character during my years at the University" says Antonucci about this unwilling revolutionary leader whose tragic end was brought about by his own followers. The film, shot by the assignment of more than 3000 supernumeraries and with the use of more than 800 historical costumes, took two years to be completed. It chronicles the entire revolutionary event that involves the young Neapolitan Masaniello and his passionate love for his wife Bernardina. The film underscores the still very modern dreams of equality and social justice that, then as now, stir oppressed people all over the world.
    Note: Director Angelo Antonucci will be present for the screening
         
  Natale a Miami
(Christmas in Miami)		        
  On the eve of the Christmas holidays, Ranuccio (Boldi), Giorgio (De Sica) and Paolo (Mandelli) share an unfortunate condition: all three have been left by their significant others, and fallen prey to a terrible depression. Giorgio's best friend Mario (Ghini) is leaving for Miami to spend the holidays with his ex-wife and their daughter Stella (Hessler). Giorgio decides to follow Mario to Florida, to try and forget his wife. A jealous Giorgio will be shamelessly seduced by Stella, secretly in love with him. Mario will have to invent many stories to hide an embarrassing secret from his friend. Ranuccio joins his son Paolo and two of Paolo's friends on a trip to Miami. Inadequate, clumsy and with a propension to end up in trouble, Ranuccio will turn every adventure into a disaster. The arrival of Paolo's girlfriend will do nothing to improve the situation. When Ranuccio and Giorgio meet up, trouble becomes truly overwhelming.
           
           
Partigiano Johnny        
  Partigiano Johnny is set in 1943, when Italy succumbs to an armistice. The film’s main protagonist Johnny is an English literature graduate, who returns to his home town of Alba. Instead of being met with warmth and hospitality, Johnny is viewed as a deserter and has no choice but to go into hiding. Johnny is confused, and does not know whom he should side with in the fight against the Nazi-Fascists. The charisma of his University Teachers, Chiodi and Cocito, fascinates him, but his inner Anglo-lover heart, refuses to follow them into the newly formed communist bands. Johnny blindly sides with a group of partisans who are just as confused as he is, having no clear ideology. The group, although led by a communist commander, are badly organized, live in subhuman conditions, and succumb to cold and hunger more often than to the enemy bullets. For Johnny, it is time to face up to the fact that being a partisan has nothing to do with the epic and poetic adventure he’d dreamed of in his literary reveries.
           
           
Ulysses        
  Alex, 34, a quirky, funny man, befriends Jennifer, a 23-year-old woman. Through jokes, music and humour, the two become close friends. However, Jennifer comes from an abusive family, and this makes Alex wary about the possibility of a romance. “Ulysses” conflates the tales of Ulysses and Telemachus: the search for a homeland, the search for a father and the search for love. Toronto is seen as a haven from misery, starvation, civil war, etc. Yet, paradoxically, many Torontonians recreate their homeland by preserving their traditions (building communities like “Little Italy,” “Chinatown,” etc.) thus figuratively ‘returning’ to their homeland (like Ulysses).
    Note: Director Alberto Diamante will be present for the screening
           
Canadian/Italian Shorts        
    Note: Directors of the shorts will be present for the screening.
   

ABSOLUTION (12 min)
Director: Hank DeVos
Producer: Jim Alafogiannis
Editor: Hank DeVos
Sound: Craig Moffat

 


DUALITY (15 min)
Director: Brian Nelson
Producer: Dwain Sutherland
DOP: Milan Stanojevic
Editor: Brian Nelson
Sound: Jordan Tuff

 
     
    ZIP TO THE ZAP (2 min)
Director: Dave McSporran
Producer: Dave McSporran
DOP: Dave McSporran
Editor: Dave McSporran
Sound: Dave McSporran

INTERVIEW WITH A HOBO
Director: Thomas Lo
Producer: Kristy Wray
DOP: Ace McCallum
     
    FIRST TIMERS (7 min)
Director: Ace McCallum
Producer: Akinwale Ola
DOP: Tom Saka
Editor: Akinwale Ola		 I'LL DIE TOMORROW (6 min)
Director: Yuri Mirabal
Producer: Yuri Mirabal
DOP: Paul Aihoshi
Editor: Yuri Mirabal
Sound: Yuri Mirabal
     
   

DEAD END (15 min)
Director: Alek Conic
Producer: Alek Conic
DOP: Adrian Chin
Editor: Darko Filipovic
Sound: Stan Mancebo

 MY LOST CONFESSION (5 min)
Director: Blair Lawrence
Producer: Blair Lawrence
DOP: Ryan Marr
Editor: Jordan Tuff
Sound: Geoff Dolman
     
   

 
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