First Festival Screening – June 12 @ 7:00pm Colossus Vaughan Directed by Alessandro Genovesi and inspired by the Brazilian film A Mulher Invisível (2009), this romantic comedy tells the story of Claudio, a hopeless romantic and highschool teacher, whose life is shattered when his wife leaves him for another man. Claudio finds an unlikely friend […]
First Festival Screening – June 11 @ 10:35pm TIFF Bell Lightbox Demetrio Perez is a renowned and incorruptible criminal lawyer from Naples; perhaps one of the best lawyers of his time. He plays by the book and defends the forgotten and lost. However, after his daughter Tea gets romantically involved with Francesco Corvino, a young […]
First Festival Screening – June 12 @ 8:45pm TIFF Bell Lightbox Salvo and Valentino are two unemployed friends living in Palermo. They decide to leave the big city and make a new start for themselves in their small hometown, Monteforte, Sicily. Initially, the small-town seems less than promising for these two broke friends. It once […]
Opening Night Film – Thursday, June 11 This biopic follows the life of Oriana Fallaci, the Italian journalist and author, and her thoughts as a front-line reporter and missed opportunity to be a mother. In one of her last trips back to Italy, Oriana decides to re-organize her journalistic and photographic materials stored for years […]
Only Festival Screening – June 13 @ 5:00pm TIFF Bell Lightbox Michele is 13 and lives in a quiet seaside town. Nobody would say he is popular at school nor is he a brilliant student nor is he very good at sports. But deep down, he does not care. Michele would settle for catching the […]
Only Festival Screening – June 13 @ 7:40pm TIFF Bell Lightbox This is the story of sports idol, Gino Bartali and other courageous Italians who helped rescue the Jewish community, partisans and refugees from extermination in a Nazi-occupied Italy. Bartali worked within a secret network alongside thousands of other like-minded Italians who risked their lives […]
Italian Contemporary Film Festival (ICFF) Chairman of the Board Paul Golini introduces the 2015 edition of the festival (R-L Paul Golini, Artistic Director Cristiano Deflorentiis, TIFF Programmer Magali Simard & Managing Director Maurizio Magnifico) and will take place from June 11 – 19 in Toronto. The press conference took place on May 12 at the […]
Here Italian Contemporary Film Festival (ICFF) Artistic Director along with ICFF Chairman Paul Golini Announces the attendence of Roberto Benigni & Nicoletta Braschi at Toronto and the ICFF (L-R Cristiano Deflorentiis & Paul Golini) and TIFF Programmer Magali Simard discusses the retrospective. The 2015 ICFF will take place from June 11 – 19 in Toronto. […]
Here Italian Contemporary Film Festival (ICFF) Artistic Director along with ICFF Chairman Paul Golini discuss the ICFF Jr. program geared towards children & young adults (L-R Cristiano Deflorentiis & Paul Golini). The 2015 ICFF will take place from June 11 – 19 in Toronto. The press conference took place on May 12 at the Ritz […]
TIFF Programmer Magali Simard talks about the Roberto Benigni & Nicoletta Braschi attendance in Toronto as well as retrospective of there work at TIFF (L-R TIFF Programmer Magali Simard & Artistic Director Cristiano De Florentiis).The 2015 ICFF will take place from June 11 – 19 in Toronto. The press conference took place on May 12 […]
