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ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL
21 st to 27 th June 2007 For more information: www.apexsiam-square.com The Festival consists of a selection of films by three famous young Italian directors:
In the decades after the Second World War, great Italian directors like De Sica, Antonioni, Fellini and Pasolini directed their movies to expressing themselves and representing the Italian society in completely new ways. Now, in a new century, the Italian Cinema is continuing to evolve, exploring innovative interesting pathways. The three directors presented in the Festival are among the most talented and creative filmmakers working in Italy today. Their films range over a spectrum of viewpoints on the human condition, some hopeful and life-enhancing, others alarming and perverse. All of the six films which are part of the Festival offer special, very Italian takes on reality. But whether humorous, sardonic, or tragic, each has the potent emotional charge that the world’s moviegoers have come to expect from the Italian film making. Opening reception sponsored by:
ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL 21-27 June 2007 Thursday, 21 st June 2007 screening of “ Nuovomondo” (Golden Door) at 20:00 hrs by Emanuele Crialese
FOLLOWING SCREENINGS @ LIDO CINEMA
DIRECTORS Matteo Garrone : He was born in Rome on the 15 th October, in 1968. In 1996 he won the Sacher Festival with the short movie Silhouette. In 1998, he signed to co-direct the short movie Un caso di forza maggiore. In 2000 he directed Estate romana, with which he run for awards at the Venice Film Festival. The Embalmer, in 2002, turned out to be a great success among both critics and public. Paolo Sorrentino : He was born in Naples the 30 th of May, in 1970. He first came out as writer and screen player. In 1997 he was awarded the Solinas Price with Dragoncelli di fuoco and afterwards he directed L’amore non ha confini. The screenplay L’uomo in piu’ won the Rai International prize in 1999. Le Conseguenze dell'Amore, his masterpiece, was screened in competition at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, where he was acclaimed as one of the most creative contemporary movie directors. Emanuele Crialese : Born in Sicily in 1965, he later attended and graduated at the New York University. In 1997 he competes in the Sundance Film Festival with Once we were stranger. Respiro, come out in 2002, was awarded the Week of Critic’s prize in Cannes and with Nuovomondo he obtained an international acclamation and a worldwide fame.
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