The Italian Contemporary Film Festival (ICFF) along with the Instituto Italiano di Cultura are pleased to co-present a press conference with Italian comedic duo, Salvatore Ficarra and Valentino Picone. Funny men Ficarra and Picone are in Toronto to present their new film, Andiamo a quel paese which is screening at ICFF as part of the […]
TORONTO – The Italian Contemporary Film Festival (ICFF) unveils its 2015 program today at The Ritz-Carlton hotel in Toronto. The annual festival celebrates the best in contemporary Italian cinema from around the world. ICFF runs from June 11-19, 2015 in Toronto, Vaughan, Mississauga, Hamilton, Montreal and Quebec City. “The ICFF slate is a diverse collection […]
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 15 @ 3:30pm Cinema Cartier Quebec City The Humbling is a black comedy about Simon Axler. He is a successful actor who takes a tumble from the stage while performing Shakespeare. He suffers from mental illness and has trouble differentiating between reality and fantasy, which ultimately leads him to retire […]
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 12 @ 6:30pm TIFF Bell Lightbox Italy in a Day is a Riley Scott idea brought to life by Gabriele Salvatores in an elegant and creative way. Italians from all over Italy were asked to record and send in videos or images via smartphone, cameras, video cameras etc. Their mission […]
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 […]
