Saturday, 29 November, to Wednesday, 10. December
In its 20th anniversary edition, the Verso Sud festival (November 29 to December 10) will once again bring current Italian films to Frankfurt. The catalogue is also available online at <link http: deutsches-filminstitut.de blog verso-sud-20-2 _blank>deutsches-filminstitut.de/blog/verso-sud-20-2/
This year's tribute is dedicated to Oscar winner Giuseppe Tornatore, who will present his cinematic declaration of love at the festival opening on Saturday, 29. November, his cinematic declaration of love to cinema, NUOVO CINEMA PARADISO (IT/FR 1988), will be presented personally in the cinema of the Deutsches Filmmuseum. On Sunday, November 30, director Edoardo Winspeare will be a guest with his film IN GRAZIA DI DIO (A New Life, IT 2014), set in Puglia and shot mainly with amateur actors. Ottavia Nicolini, the Frankfurt-based daughter of architect Renato Nicolini, will be present for the screening of SACRO GRA (Italy 2013, Dir: Gianfranco Rosi). Her father was instrumental in the preliminary work for SACRO GRA, which is documented in the supporting film that evening, TANTI FUTURI POSSIBILE (IT 2012. R: Gianfranco Rosi).
Saturday, 29. November, 4 p.m.; Saturday, December 6, 8 p.m.
LA MIGLIORE OFFERTA The Best Offer
Italy 2013. dir: Giuseppe Tornatore. D: Geoffrey Rush, Sylvia Hoeks, Jim Sturgess, Donald Sutherland. 124 min. DCP. engl. OmU
Eccentric art expert Virgil Oldman is invited to her villa by the mysterious Claire to appraise her collection of precious artworks. Suffering from a mysterious illness, she speaks to him only through a hole in the wall of one room. Before long, Virgil, who has never had a relationship with a woman, is seized by an insatiable passion for Claire that won't let him go.
Saturday, 29. November, 7pm
Opening Verso Sud 20
Giuseppe Tornatore guest at the Deutsches Filmmuseum cinema
NUOVO CINEMA PARADISO Cinema Paradiso
Italy/France 1988. R: Giuseppe Tornatore.
D: Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Salvatore Cascio. 123 min Blu-ray. OmU
The news of an old friend's death triggers a flood of magical memories for a famous director of his childhood and youth in post-war Sicily. As a young boy, his friendship with Alfredo, the old projectionist at the titular village cinema, develops his passion for film, a passion that will shape him for life.
Giuseppe Tornatore's nostalgic and semi-autobiographical declaration of love for the cinema won him the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1990 and numerous other awards.
Prequel: LA FLAMME. France 2000. dir: Ron Dyens. 2 min. DCP. o. D.
Sunday, November 30, 11:30 a.m.
BAARÌA Baarìa - An Italian Family Story
Italy 2009. dir: Giuseppe Tornatore. D: Francesco Scianna, Margareth Madè, Angela Molina. 150 min Blu-ray. OmU
With BAARÌA, Giuseppe Tornatore set a cinematic monument to his native Sicily. In breathtaking landscape shots, with a superior ensemble of actors and accompanied by the music of film composer legend Ennio Morricone, BAARÌA tells of the social and political upheavals in a small Sicilian village.
Sunday, November 30, 5 p.m.; Monday, December 1, 8:30 p.m.
MIELE Honig
Italy 2013. R: Valeria Golino.
D: Jasmine Trinca, Carlo Cecchi, Libero De Rienzo. 96 min. DCP. OmU
Month after month, Irene flies to Mexico - not for another man, as her lover suspects, but to procure the sleeping drug Lampudal: Irene works under the alias "Miele" as an assisted suicide. She is convinced of her mission to free terminally ill people from their suffering, but reaches her limits when the
actually perfectly healthy 70-year-old engineer Carlo Grimaldi confronts her with his dying wish. MIELE, the directorial debut of actress Valeria Golino, screened at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated in seven categories for the Italian film prize "David di Donatello."
Sunday, 30. November, 7 p.m. (Edoardo Winspeare and Celeste Casciaro guest)
Tuesday, December 2, 6 p.m.
IN GRAZIA DI DIO A New Life
Italy 2014. R: Edoardo Winspeare. D: Celeste Casciaro, Laura Lichetta, Gustavo Caputo, Anna Boccadamo. 127 min. dcp. OmU
Salento, southern Italy: when their small textile factory is forced to close and their house is sold, a family's struggle for existence begins. Abandoned by her siblings and daughter, the energetic Adele initially finds support only from her grandmother. Only gradually do the women discover a new way to ensure daily survival for themselves and their family: a return to field work and simple
bartering. Very authentically, Edoardo Winspeare tells of the impact of the economic crisis on the life of a family, while painting an affectionate portrait of a region.
Monday, 1. December, 6 p.m.; Wednesday, December 3, 8:30 p.m.
SPAGHETTI STORY
Italy 2013. dir: Ciro de Caro
D: Valerio Di Benedetto, Cristian Di Sante, Sara Tosti. 82 min DCP. OmU
The four friends Valerio, Scheggia, Serena and Giovanna have big plans. Whether artistically, professionally or familially, they all strive for success and hope for the big breakthrough. But that is a long time coming. Then Mei Mei enters their lives, a young Chinese prostitute in trouble, and suddenly everything changes. In his debut feature, shot on a mini-budget and in just 11 days, Ciro de Caro paints a portrait of today's generation of 30-somethings in times of uncertainty and crisis.
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 6 p.m.; Thurs. December, 6 p.m.; Thursday, December 4, 8:30 p.m.
L'INTREPIDO The Fearless
Italy 2013. dir: Gianni Amelio
D: Antonio Albanese, Livia Rossi, Gabriele Rendina. 104 min DCP. OmU
Antonio Pane lives in Milan and is actually unemployed. In order not to have to get up in the morning aimlessly and haphazardly, he has come up with something: he is a substitute. Every day he replaces workers of all professions: he bricks, steers the tram, delivers pizzas or irons - and thus gives others a break. Antonio accepts every job, and masters every challenge with a smile on his lips. In L'INTREPIDO
Gianni Amelio tells a multifaceted, realistic but also humorous tale of crisis and unemployment in Milan.
Friday, December 5, 6pm; Saturday, December 6. December, 10:30 p.m.
TUTTI CONTRO TUTTI Everyone vs. Everyone
Italy 2013. dir: Paolo Virzì
D: Rolando Ravello, Kasia Smutniak, Marco Giallini. 90 min. DCP. OmU
Agostino lives with his wife Anna, his children Erica and Lorenzo, his brother-in-law Sergio, his wife Romana, their children and their grouchy grandfather Rocco in a small house on the outskirts of Rome. When the whole family returns home one day from Lorenzo's First Communion party, they find that their house is occupied. With short notice, the family moves to the landing in front of the apartment - a fierce battle for the right to a roof over their heads begins.
Friday, 5. December, 8:30 p.m.
LA MAFIA UCCIDE SOLO D'ESTATE The Mafia only kills in summer
Italy 2013. dir: Pierfrancesco Diliberto
D: Cristiana Capotondi, Pierfrancesco Diliberto. 90 min. Blu-ray. OmU
Palermo 1970: On the day that the well-known Mafioso Vito Ciancimino is elected mayor, Arturo is born - a meeting with unexpected consequences. Two obsessions define Arturo's adolescence: his ill-fated love for his bank neighbor Flora, whom he has adored since grade school, and his fixation on the frightening relationship between his hometown and the Mafia. Set against the
backdrop of tragic, Mafia-related events that took place in Sicily between the 1970s and 1990s, Diliberto delicately and extremely entertainingly tells of a young boy's coming-of-age.
Friday, December 5, 10:30pm
LA SCONOSCIUTA The Unknown
Italy 2006. R: Giuseppe Tornatore
D: Xenija Rappoport, Michele Placido, Claudia Gerini. 118 mins. 35mm
Original with English/French UT
A few years ago, Irena, originally from the Ukraine, arrived in a northern Italian town with a suitcase full of money, rented an apartment that was actually far too expensive and applied for a job as a housekeeper in the house opposite - with success. Soon Irena has made herself indispensable in the Adacher family, but then it becomes clear that something is not right with Irena.
Giuseppe Tornatore's thriller has won numerous awards at international festivals and was awarded the European Film Prize for "Best Film" in 2007.
Saturday, December 6, 4 p.m.; Wednesday, December 10, 6 p.m.
IO STO CON LA SPOSA On the Bride's Side
Italy 2014. dir: Antonio Augugliaro, Gabriele Del Grande, Khaled Soliman Al Nassiry. Documentary. 98 min. DCP. OmeU
A Palestinian poet and an Italian journalist meet five Palestinians and Syrians fleeing the war in Syria in Milan. The two want to help the refugees on their illegal onward journey to Sweden and decide to stage a wedding. With a Palestinian friend who dresses up as a bride and ten Italian and Syrian friends, they cross half of Europe in four days disguised as a wedding party, covering a distance of 3,000 kilometres - a journey full of emotions and hopes that ended on 18. November 2013 in Stockholm.
Saturday, December 6, 6 p.m.; Monday, December 8. December, 6 p.m.
PICCOLO PATRIA Little Fatherland
Italy 2014. dir: Alessandro Rossetto
D: Maria Roveran, Roberta Da Soller, Vladimir Doda. 111 min DCP. OmeU
Luisa and Renata live in a small village in northeastern Italy. They dream of breaking out of the small community where they grew up. They want to leave their previous life, determined by frustrated families and a new generation of migrants, for China. Through blackmail they try to get the necessary start-up capital for their new life. This decision triggers a tragedy that threatens to ruin everyone's lives.
Sunday, 7. December, 11:30 a.m.
LA LEGGENDA DEL PIANISTA SULL'OCEANO
The Legend of the Ocean Pianist
Italy 1998. R: Giuseppe Tornatore
D: Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Bill Nunn. 165 min. 35mm. Omeng/French
In 1900, a newborn baby is abandoned aboard an ocean liner. The ship's stoker, who finds the infant, names him Novecento, in honor of the new century that has just begun. Novecento remains on board and after the death of his adoptive father, he is raised by the entire ship's crew together. As he grows up, he discovers his love of music: he becomes the gifted and celebrated pianist of the ship's band and befriends the trumpeter Max. He never leaves the ship that has become his home.
Sunday, 7. December, 5pm
LA DEUTSCHE VITA
Germany 2014. dir: Alessandsro Cassigoli, Tania Masi
Documentary. 61 minutes. DCP. OmU
Berlin is a magnet for people who want to achieve something with little money. This is currently the case for several Italians who, disappointed and disillusioned by the politics of their own country, seek their fortune in the German capital. But the German capital only meets their expectations to a limited extent: the winter is too cold, the bureaucracy too unforgiving. The two directors Alessandro Cassigoli and Tania Masi are also homesick. To combat their nascent melancholy, they accompany their fellow countrymen and women in their everyday lives, which are as familiar as they are at times strange, with their cameras.
Sunday, 7. December, 7pm
Guest: Ottavia Nicolini
SACRO GRA The Other Rome
Italy 2013. dir: Gianfranco Rosi. Documentary. 93 min. DCP. OmU
Besides the Rome of palaces and gardens, there is a very different Rome away from all the tourist attractions: the Rome of the suburbs along the huge ring road "Grande Raccordo Anulare" (GRA), which surrounds the Italian capital for 70 kilometres. Along this tangent, Gianfranco Rosi goes in search of the people and tells their stories. At the 2013 Venice Film Festival, SACRO GRA was the first documentary ever to win the Golden Lion for Best Film. TANTI FUTURI POSSIBILE shows the preparation and background of SACRO GRA.
Preview: TANTI FUTURI POSSIBILE Italy 2012. dir: Gianfranco Rosi. 33 min DVD. OmeU
Monday, December 8, 8:30 p.m.
L'UOMO DELLE STELLE The Man Who Makes the Stars
Italy 1998. R: Giuseppe Tornatore
D: Sergio Castellitto, Tiziana Lodato, Leopoldo Trieste. 110 min. 35mm. OmU
With a rickety pickup truck and a movie camera, Joe Morelli travels through Sicilian villages in the early 1950s, posing as a talent scout for Universal Film Studios in Rome. 1,500 lire are invested by trusting peasants, children, housewives, policemen and salesmen in the hope of being discovered. But Morelli is a fraud, luring the
gullible villagers in front of an empty camera. It is only through his encounter with the beautiful Beata that he begins to rethink his unscrupulous actions, but the police are already on to him.
Wednesday, 10. December, 8:30 p.m.
IL CAPITALE UMANO Human Capital - The Sweet Greed
Italy 2013. dir: Paolo Virzì
D: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Fabrizio Bentivoglio. 110 min. DCP. OmU.
A mysterious car accident brings together two disparate families in a provincial town in northern Italy on Christmas Eve: While the Bernaschis live a life of luxury thanks to shrewd financial speculation, Dino Ossola and his wife Roberta - pregnant with twins - are on the verge of bankruptcy. Buying into the Bernaschis' hedge fund could be their salvation, but things turn out differently than they hoped. HUMAN CAPITAL
won the Italian film award "David di Donatello" for best film as well as six other awards and is currently Italy's contender in the race for the Oscar nominations.
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