Los Angeles Italia

L.A. ITALIA 2013 - FEBRUARY 17 – 23
DAILY PROGRAM OF SCREENINGS

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17
09:00 am Honoring an Italian Maestro of Cinematic Art
Doc Once Up a Time... Sergio Leone dir Giovanni Minoli (60')

12:30 pm Tribute the Legendary Italian-American Actor AL PACINO
Scent of a Woman dir Martin Brest (157')

4:10 pm Welcome to Los Angeles, Italia 2013. Attending Riccardo Monti, president Ice
Carlo Bocchi, Italian Trade Commissioner – Alberto Di Mauro, director IIC

4:20 pm Mont Reve dir Rocky Collins and Lynn Von Kersting (110') - World Premiere
The actors and producers Mario Rivelli and India Irving will be attending the event.
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6:30 pm Introducing L.A. Italia 2013. Attending Giuseppe Perrone, Consul General of Italy
Rick Nicita, Chairman - Martha De Laurentiis, President
Mark Canton, Honorary Chair and Pascal Vicedomini, L.A. Italia producer

6:45 pm Honoring Producer and Director Iginio Straffi
Gladiators of Rome dir Iginio Straffi (95') - Special Screening
The producer-director will be attending the event.
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8:30 pm Honoring Al Pacino with the inaugural Jack Valenti - LA, Italia Legend Award

8:45 pm Honoring Actor and Director Michele Placido
The Lookout dir Michele Placido (89') - US Premiere
The director will be attending the event.
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10:40 pm Celebrating the Spaghetti Western's Master
Doc Giuliano Gemma: An Italian in the World dir Vera Gemma (75')
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18

9:15 am Doc Enrico Mattei dir Giovanni Minoli (60')

10:30 am Celebrating the Spaghetti Western's Master
Texas, Addio dir Ferdinando Baldi (93')

12:30 pm Remembering the Italian composer Lucio Dalla
Quijote dir Mimmo Paladino (76'). Music by Lucio Dalla

2:00 pm Doc Carlo! dir Gianfranco Giagni and Fabio Ferzetti (75') - US Premiere

3:30 pm What's Left dir Laszlo Barbo (100') - US Premiere

5:15 pm Honoring the Italian actor and director Michele Placido
Viva l'Italia dir Max Bruno (111') - US Premiere
The actor Michele Placido will be attending the event

7:20 pm Doc Open Heart dir Kief Davidson (40') - 2013 Oscar® Nominee, Best Doc Short
The director will be attending the event.
To follow All You Can Dream dir Valerio Zanoli (80') - US Premiere
The director will be attending the event

10:00 pm Evil Things dir Simone Gandolfo (88') - World Premiere
The actress Marta Gastini will be attending the event

 

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19

9:00 am Celebrating the Spaghetti Western's Master
Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! dir. Giulio Questi (100')

11:00 am Eni - Culture by Energy -The Mattei Affair dir. Francesco Rosi (116')

1:15 pm Doc Artisan Resistence dir. Antonio Manco (21')
The director will be attending the event
To Follow
The Usual Idiots - Part 2 dir. Enrico Lando (90') - US Premiere

3:40 pm Tribute the Legendary Italian-American Actor AL PACINO
The Merchant of Venice dir. Michael Radford (137')

6:10 pm Honoring the Italian actor and director Michele Placido
Itaker dir. Toni Trupia (98') - US Premiere
The director and the actor Michele Placido will be attending the event

8:00 pm See You Tomorrow dir. Andrea Zaccariello (104') - World Premiere
The director, the actor Enrico Brignano and the producer Giuseppe Pedersoli will be attending the event

9:30pm Honoring the Spaghetti-Western Masters: Franco Nero and the Oscar winning and this year nominated again "Maestro" Quentin Tarantino and Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained).

10:00 pm Franco Nero: The Man of Thousand Faces dir. Carlo Gabriel Nero (23')
To follow Celebrating the Spaghetti Western's Master
Django by Sergio Corbucci (90')

 

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20

10:20 am Celebrating the Spaghetti Western's Master
Keoma dir Enzo G. Castellari (108')

2:45 pm A Special Day dir Francesca Comencini (89') - US Premiere

4:30 pm The Worst Christmas of My Life dir Alessandro Genovesi (90') - US Premiere

6:30 pm Winx Club 3D: Magical Adventure dir Iginio Straffi (93') - Special Screening
The producer-director will be attending the event.
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8:30 pm Crazy for Me dir Fausto Brizzi (94') - US Premiere
The director and the actress Claudia Zanella will be attending the event.
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10:30 pm Celebrating the Spaghetti Western's Master
Ringo the Killer dir Duccio Tessari (90'). Starring Giuliano Gemma

 

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21
9:00am Honoring an Italian Maestro of Cinematic Art
Doc Once Upon a Time...Sergio Leone dir Giovanni Minoli (60')
To follow Doc Viva Verdi! dir Giovanni Minoli ( 60') - US Premiere

11:10 am L.A. Italia – Press Conference T.B.A.

12:40 pm Maria dir Giacomo Campiotti (120') - (Starring Paz Vega) US Premiere

2:50 pm Talking To the Trees dir Ilaria Borrelli (92') - US Premiere
The director will be attending the event

4:30 pm How Difficulty is it! dir Ilaria Cirino Pomicino (11') - US Premiere
The director will be attending the event
To follow The Landlords dir Edoardo Gabriellini (90') - US Premiere

6:40pm A Perfect Family dir Paolo Genovese (120') - US Premiere

9:00pm Honoring the Legendary Italian-American Actor AL PACINO
Scarface dir Brian De Palma (200')

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SPECIAL EVENT @ Grammy Museum
8:00 pm A Night at The Grammy Museum with Zucchero "Sugar" Fornaciari
Screening and Award Ceremony
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22

9:30 am The Human Cargo dir Daniele Vicari (90') - US Premiere

11:20 am Doc - Enrico Mattei dir Giovanni Minoli (60')

2:10 pm Us in the Us dir Carlo Vanzina (100') - US Premiere

4:10 pm The Illegal Prince dir Alessandro Siani (97') - US Premiere
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6:00 pm Celebrating the Spaghetti Western's Master
Letters to Juliet by Gary Winick (105'). Special appearance Franco Nero
Starring Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave
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8:00 pm LA. ITALIA 2013 Award Ceremony
To follow Honoring an Italian Music Icon Zucchero Sugar Fornaciari
La Sesion Cubana dir Cristian Biondani (120') - US Premiere
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10:00 pm Special Event - Screening TBA

 

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23

9:00 am Honoring the Legendary Italian-American Actor AL PACINO
The Godfather: Part II dir Francis Ford Coppola (200')

1:00 pm Short Cut Jet Set dir Antonello Sarno (20') - US Premiere
To follow To Rome with Love dir Woody Allen (112')

3:40 pm Honoring an Italian Maestro of Cinematic Art
Once Upon A Ttime in America dir Sergio Leone (229').
Starring Robert De Niro, James Wood, Elizabeth Mc Govern

7:50pm Doc Open Heart dir Kief Davidson (40') - 2013 Oscar® Nominee, Best Doc Short
The director and an Emergency's representative will be attending the event.

 

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SYNOPSIS

ONCE UPON A TIME...SERGIO LEONE
by Giovanni Minoli – 60'
A tribute to an extraordinary and much beloved director who revitalized the western genre and nourished our imagination for wide-open spaces. Sergio Leone was one of the most important Italian directors as well as the father of the "Spaghetti Western" – a genre that he revisited and dignified with a number of movies that have taken on a huge cult following.

THE MATTEI AFFAIR
by Francesco Rosi – 116'
Enrico Mattei helped change Italy's future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. He died on October 27, 1962, when his private airplane crashed one minute before prior to landing at Milan airport.

SCENT OF A WOMAN
by Martin Brest – 157'
Frank is a retired Lt Col in the US army. He's blind and impossible to get along with. Charlie is at school and is looking forward to going to university. To help pay for a trip home for Christmas, he agrees to look after Frank over the Thanksgiving holiday. Frank's niece says this will be easy money, but she didn't reckon on Frank spending his Thanksgiving in New York.

MONT REVE
by Rocky Collins & Lynn von Kersting - 110'
Marco della Riva, an Italian student at the elite Swiss boarding school Mont Rêve, is not your ordinary guy. A fierce athlete and secretly a writer, he is quite the trouble maker and of course a ladies man. With his on-campus nemeses, the drug-dealing Spanish gang, vowing to cause Marco and his group of Italians trouble, life is a constant game to reach the finish line without being caught.

GLADIATORS OF ROME
by Iginio Straffi – 95'
It is the age of Imperial Rome. Young Timo is an orphan of Pompeii's terrible eruption, adopted by general Chirone and raised in the most famous Gladiators' Academy in Rome. When Timo meets the lovely Lucilla, he decides to change his life and bring out the valour inside himself. Through spells, crazy raids in the woods and the terrible training of a very personal lady trainer, Timo has to transform himself into the greatest gladiator of all time.

THE LOOKOUT
by Michele Placido – 89'
Police commissioner Mattei is about to arrest a notorious gang of bank robbers when a lone sniper opens fire from the rooftops, decimating an army of cops and lets his accomplices escape. One of the thieves is injured and the plan is compromised. Mattei organizes a spectacular manhunt, while the criminals sink into an abyss of violence and betrayal.

GIULIANO GEMMA: AN ITALIAN IN THE WORLD
by Vera Gemma – 83'
Vera Gemma tells the story of her father, one of Italy's most prolific actors having appeared in more than 78 films. Born in Rome and raised in Reggio Emilia, the athletic Giuliano started in movies as a stunt man and went on to appear in the early spaghetti westerns before going on to serious roles working for noted directors such as Duccio Tessari and Luchino Visconti. In 1977 he won a David di Donatello Award for his role in Il desert dei tartar and other important prizes at the Karlovy Vary Festival and the Grolla d'Oro at the San Vincent Festival. An Italian icon, he has truly made his mark on silver screens throughout the world.

ENRICO MATTEI
by Giovanni Minoli – 60'
Enrico Mattei begins his adventure in the world of energy, when the economic commission of the National Liberation Committee of Northern Italy elects him special commissioner of AGIP, assigning him the task of liquidating the big Italian company and selling everything to private entrepreneurs. However, Mattei immediately revealed his important project that within a short period of time would generate ENI. He died in a plane crash on October 27, 1962 under suspicious circumstances.

TEXAS, ADDIO
by Ferdinando Baldi – 93'
The tough gunman Burt Sullivan leaves his job as a town sheriff to go to Mexico to find Cisco, who killed his father many years ago. He and his younger brother arrive in a small town where everybody is afraid of Cisco, who has become the local landowner. But there is a secret...

QUIJOTE
by Mimmo Paladino – 75'
The feature film Quijote constitutes one-third of a triumvirate of interrelated artistic endeavors, all completed by the celebrated Spanish painter Mimmo Paladino. The movie tells the story of Quijote, that transports the audience into the knight's imaginary realm with a cast of live actors .

CARLO!
by Gianfranco Giagni and Fabio Ferzetti - 75'
In "Carlo!" the cinema of Carlo Verdone is seen from inside – the actors and actresses, employees, friends, family, and the roads and the voices of Rome. Not only the endless game of reflexes from which characters, characters and stories are born, but also the art, the skills of observation, the use of body and voice, the birth and the psychology of male characters, and the complicated relationship with those women.

WHAT'S LEFT
by Laszlo Barbo - 100'
Loosely based on the novels "Ricordi di un dissepolto" by Michele Calauti and "Le Baracche" by Fortunato Seminara, "Quel che resta" recalls the terrifying moments of the catastrophic earthquake of December 28, 1908 which, in only 30 seconds, destroyed Reggio Calabria and Messina. The film narrates and interweaves the stories of the survivors, forced to live in shanty towns.

VIVA L'ITALIA
by Massimiliano Bruno – 111'
The film tells the story of a politician named Michele Spagnolo who, after a serious accident, loses his ability to censor himself, and will say anything that crosses his mind, thus becoming a time bomb for himself and his family. His three children rush to his aid despite their difficult relationships: Riccardo, an upright and socially engaging doctor; Susanna, a TV actress with no talent; and Valerio, a ne'er do well who owes everything to his father. This is how the film starts, and evolves as into comedy about Italian contradictions, sparing nothing and no one.

OPEN HEART
by Kief Davidson – 40'
Eight Rwandan children leave their families behind to embark on a life-or-death journey seeking high-risk heart surgery in the Sudan. Their hearts ravaged by a rheumatic heart disease resulting from childhood strep throat, they have only months left to live. This Academy Award®-nominated film reveals the intertwined endeavors of Dr. Emmanuel, Rwanda's lone government cardiologist fighting to save the lives of his young patients, and Dr. Gino Strada, the Salam Center's head surgeon, who is fighting to save his hospital.

ALL YOU CAN DREAM
by Valerio Zanoli - 80'
An overweight young girl is helped by her guardian angel /favorite singer Anastacia to change her perspective on life. She will progressively acquire self-confidence, modify her eating habits, and share her beautiful voice with the entire world.

EVIL THINGS
by Simone Gandolfo – 89'
A message, a blog, and four kids taking part in a pervert game. A torturer, the blog's master, four victims, none of them really innocent - it is a trial live on the internet, where followers can vote for the life or death of the protagonists.

DJANGO KILL... IF YOU LIVE, SHOOT!
by Giulio Questi – 100'
Mexican outlaw Django is part of a band of thieves that steal a cargo of gold from a stagecoach. However, the Americans in the band betray him, and shoot all the Mexicans. Django is not really dead, and crawls his way out of his shallow grave, continuing his pursuit of the gold, and exacting a bloody vengeance.

ARTISAN RESISTANCE
by Antonio Manco – 21'
Carmine is a young artisan from the San Lorenzo neighborhood in the historical centre of Naples. Keeper of the ancient art of typography, he brings back to life old machines from the past century, among which is one of the most important inventions in history: the American Linotype. In the absence of laws that recognize the value of this art, however, his work could come to an end at any moment.

THE USUAL IDIOTS 2
by Enrico Lando – 90'
In this sequel, we find Ruggero and his son Gianluca escaping from a Russian gang. Many things have changed lately and the crisis has even hit the Empire of Wurstel. In order to save it, Ruggero is ready to do anything, even to ask for the help of Fabiana's father, a rather strict and severe man. Amnesia, rip-off and deception are just some of the ingredients of this epic rollercoaster: will Ruggero be able to save his empire, escape the Russians and, most importantly, save himself from the threat of the tax office?

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
by Michael Radford – 138'
Venice, 1596. Melancholy Antonio loves the youthful Bassanio, so when Bassanio asks for 3000 ducats, Antonio says yes before knowing it's to sue for the hand of Portia. His capital tied up in merchant ships at sea, Antonio must go to Shylock, a Jewish moneylender he reviles. Shylock wraps his grudge in kindness, offering a three-month loan at no interest, but if not repaid, Antonio will owe a pound of flesh. The Jew's daughter elopes with a Christian, whetting Shylock's hatred.

ITAKER
by Toni Trupia – 98'
This is the tale of a journey from Italy into Germany, in 1962. It's the peculiar journey of Pietro, a nine-year-old whose mother died and who sets out on his quest to find his long lost father who disappeared after migrating to another country. He is accompanied by a self-described friend of his father's, Benito Stigliano, a young man with a dubious past who is looking for a personal redemption and is willing to do anything to get it. During their journey, Pietro and Benito experience different worlds: the Bochum factory, the urban Italian community (aka Itaker: a derogatory term for Italians, one of the many epithets given to Italian immigrants in Germany).

SEE YOU TOMORROW
by Andrea Zaccariello – 104'
Edoardo Santilli is a fundamentally goodhearted but restless forty year old, in constant search for a lucky break that will change his life. One day, after earning zilch point zilch from a stack of instant, scratch-away lottery cards, he reads a curious bit of news in a newspaper's cultural page: in Central Italy there's a small town whose entire population is over the age of eighty.

THE MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES
by Carlo Gabriel Nero – 23'
"The Man of a Thousand Faces" is a short kaleidoscopic tribute to the legendary Italian actor Franco Nero directed by his son Carlo. It spans a 50-year career encompassing nearly 180 movies in which he has portrayed roles across virtually every genre, covering almost every kind of character imaginable, as well as characters reflecting dozens of different nationalities.

DJANGO
by Sergio Corbucci – 93'
In the opening scene a lone man walks, behind him he drags a coffin. That man is Django. He rescues a woman from bandits and later he arrives in a town ravaged by the same bandits. The scene for confrontation is set. But why does he drag that coffin everywhere and who, or what, is in it?

KEOMA
by Enzo G. Castellari – 105'
Half-breed Keoma returns to his border hometown after service in the Civil War and finds it under the control of Caldwell, an ex-Confederate raider, and his vicious gang of thugs. To make matters worse, Keoma's three half-brothers have joined forces with Caldwell, and make it painfully clear that his return is an unwelcome one.

A SPECIAL DAY
by Francesca Comencini – 89'
Gina and Marco are very young and determined to become "someone". They meet one morning in the mystical outskirts of Rome. She has an appointment with a politician that could put in a good word for her to enter the world of show business. He is the driver that is supposed to accompany her to the meeting. It is the occasion they were both waiting for.

THE WORST CHRISTMAS OF MY LIFE
by Alessandro Genovesi – 93'
Three days before Christmas, Giorgio his wife Clara and their daughter Margherita are invited to spend the holidays in the castle belonging to Alberto Paolo, Margherita's husband, who will join them shortly thereafter. The castle is a little jewel nestled in the snowy slopes of Monte Rosa, a place that Alberto has recently bought, after having miraculously survived a disease that was to inevitably lead to his death.

WINX CLUB 3D: MAGICAL ADVENTURE
by Iginio Straffi – 87'
A celebration marking the beginning of the new school year are underway at the Alfea School of Fairies, when the party is suddenly interrupted by wicked Trix. Without Bloom, the Winx, are forced to deal with the disruption caused by the witches who, after ruining the party, steal a powerful, mysterious object. Meanwhile, Bloom is enjoying the best moment of her new life as a princess.

CRAZY FOR ME
by Fausto Brizzi – 94'
Andrea, the only man in a large family consisting only of women (there are seven: mom, three sisters, grandma and her nurse – and even the dog is female) has finally met the woman of his life – Giulia. Since none of his previous girlfriends have ever survived the explosive impact of his intrusive and devastating family, poor Andrea decides that the only way to make this relationship work is to lie and pretend to be an orphan.

RINGO, THE KILLER
by Duccio Tessari – 95'
In a Texas town on the border with Mexico, a band of thieves rob a local bank and take refuge on an isolated farm. The reaction of the law leads to the bandits killing the farm owners one by one in retaliation. But an adventurer, Ringo, called Angel Face, enlisted by the sheriff in return for a reward, infiltrates the bandits. The rescue operation does not always go smoothly, but thanks to the help of the owner's daughter, the bandits are defeated and the loot is recovered.

VIVA VERDI!
by Giovanni Minoli - 60'
On Monday January 28, 1901, the papers announced the death of Giuseppe Verdi, and with that, yet another prominent piece of the 1800s was gone forever. Verdi represented a relevant portion of the Italian 19th century. He was the last vestige of the moral patrimony we inherited from the heroic revolution. Today, the rediscovery of the values of freedom that motivated the Italian Risorgimento and that were incarnated by Verdi, is the highest lesson of Verdi's music.

MARIA
by Giacomo Campiotti – 110'
A compared portrait of two women who shared a love of Jesus Christ: sinless Mary, from whom everything originated, and Magdalene, the seven-demon woman who was the first to see Jesus resurrected. Mary's family life - with her anxiety of mother and wife - interweaves with the history of the Israeli people and their attempt to free themselves from the yoke of Roman slavery, constantly frustrated by the subterfuges of the beautiful queen, of whom Magdalene will soon become a passive and useful tool.

TALKING TO THE TREES
by Ilaria Borrelli – 92'
Mia, a beautiful and successful Paris-based photographer, bored by her bourgeois existence, flies to Cambodia to surprise her binder trader husband Xavier sot hat they can create the baby she longs for.

HOW DIFFICULTY IS IT!
by Ilaria Cirino Pomicino - 11'
Leonardo is engaged to Carolina but has now been unemployed for two months. Falling prey to anxiety, one morning he decides to terminate his painful situation and attempts to commit suicide. But destiny will prevent him in any possible way from succeeding...

THE LANDLORDS
by Edoardo Gabriellini – 90'
Nothing is ever as it seems. And neither are people. Cosimo and Elia are two masonry workers in Rome who are commissioned by the singer Fausto Mieli to re-tile his house's balcony. An accomplished singer, Fausto has chosen to retire because of his wife's grave illness. Moira is confined to a wheelchair. The couple lives withdrawn from the rest of the world in an apparently paradisiacal corner of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines.

A PERFECT FAMILY
by Paolo Genovese – 120'
The film protagonist is Leone, 50 years old, a rich, powerful and mysterious man, but above all, a lonely person. He is actually so lonesome that he decides to hire a crew of performers to play the members of the family he never had. The performance is staged on Christmas Eve but what is expected to be the most magical and traditional celebration of the year turns into a real nightmare for all those who end up in Leone's world of cynicism and extravagance.

SCARFACE
by Brian De Palma – 170'
When Fidel Castro opens the harbor at Mariel, Cuba, he sends 125,000 Cuban refugees to reunite with their relatives in the United States. Among all the refugees, there is one who wants it all – his name is Tony Montana. Tony and his friend Manny arrive in the United States and begin doing small time jobs. Soon, they are hired by Omar Suarez to pay money to a group of Colombians. When the deal goes wrong, Tony and Manny leave with the money and succeed in their job.

ZUCCHERO, THIRTY SUCCESSFUL YEARS
by Vincenzo Mollica – 60'
A lengthy interview with Zucchero Sugar Fornaciari recalls some of the highlights of his thirty-year career. From his tortuous beginnings to the peaceful way he writes and describes himself today, he shares memories of his encounters with such personalities as Sting, Eric Clapton, Pavarotti and Bono, and his duet with Paul Young for "Senza una donna." Relaxed and amused, Zucchero enjoys this pleasant chat.

THE HUMAN CARGO
by Daniele Vicari – 90'
On August 7th 1991 an Albanian ship, carrying 20 thousand people returns from Cuba to the port of Durazzo, carrying 10 thousand tons of sugar in its cargo hold. While it is in the process of unloading its cargo, a crowd of thousands suddenly invades the ship, forcing the captain to head towards Italy. On August 8th 1991 the ship arrives in the port of Bari.

A SONG FOR PARADISE
by Nicola di Francescantonio – 84'
Nicola is a movie director from Genoa who wants to shoot a film about the Genoese singer-songwriter school. He has already organized the production and for the main character he has hired a very famous young actor, but this actor will never arrive in Genoa. Having no other option, Nicola decides that the actor will be replaced by Mario, his set designer.

U.S. IN THE U.S.
by Carlo Vanzina – 90'
U.S. in the U.S. is the story of Antonio, a waiter who has been ruined by his passion for gambling; of Angela, an unmarried secretary consumed with anxiety; of Nino, a divorced and jobless mechanic; of Carmen, a temporary employee who is also a shopaholic; and of Michele, a naïve young man who grew up in a zoo. These five characters have little in common but are brought together by a fate when a notary comes into their lives to deliver the news of inheritance left to them by a father none of them ever got to know.

THE ILLEGAL PRINCE
by Alessandro Siani – 97'
Hopelessly broke Antonio subsists on work as a test subject for pharmaceutical companies until he meets Letizia, a spoilt princess in search of popularity: he can't help but falling in love with her. In a world where the prejudices of the rich against the poor are deeply rooted and difficult to eradicate, the only chance the poor guy has is to follow the advice of the Palace Chamberlain, Anastasio.

LETTERS TO JULIET
by Gary Winnick – 105'
Sophie's dream of becoming a magazine writer becomes a reality when she travels to Verona, Italy where she meets the "Secretaries of Juliet" and finds her true love.

LA SESION CUBANA - ZUCCHERO
by Cristian Biondani – 120'
Italy's biggest rock star is back, this time, with a new collection of music recorded in Havana and produced by Don Was. Seven well-known songs from his repertoire, like Baila (Sexy Thing), have been rearranged to vibrate with some percussive Latin drive and six others have never before been released.

THE GODFATHER: PART II
by Francis Ford Coppola – 200'
The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

JET – SET
by Antonello Sarno – 30'
Between 1950 and 1970 the cameras staked out on an airport captured the comings and goings of Italian celebrities and American film stars of what was known as "Hollywood-on-the-Tiber". It was the Jet Set, filmed by news crews and presented in newsreels with biting irony. Glamour and cynism were in the wake of the Dolce Vita by Fellini.

TO ROME WITH LOVE
by Woody Allen – 112'
Various lives intersect in the Eternal City of Rome. The characters include John a young architect in love with his girlfriend's best friend, an opera director who finds an undiscovered talent in an unexpected place, and Leopoldo, who inadvertently becomes one of the most famous people in Rome.

ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA
by Sergio Leone – 251'
An epic tale of a group of Jewish gangsters in New York, tracking them from childhood, through their glory years during prohibition, and to their meeting again 35 years later.