MOVIEMOV, Italian Film Festival, 2022
MOVIEMOV, Italian Film Festival is back to the Philippines with an 11th edition full of surprises!
The festival will take place from March 31 to April 04, fully Online, and with a rich program of screenings and talks!
Moviemov 2022 will present 8 movies, most of them followed by a talk with the filmmaker and the cast. There will also be a tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini with two screenings and a masterclass.
As usual, movies will be free of charge and accessible from all over the Philippines on a first come first served basis (the virtual movie-house will have a capacity of 300 pax)
The video message by this year’s Film ambassador, Lorenzo Richelmy
SCHEDULE OF SCREENINGS AND TALKS
DAY 1, MAR 31, THURSDAY
at 7:00 PM OPENING TALK with Lorenzo Richelmy (Film ambassador), Antonia Truppo (actress in Qui rido io), Carlotta Antonelli (actress), Anna Ferruzzo (actress), and Paolo Calabresi (actor from Takeaway)
at 4:30 PM - opening screening
QUI RIDO IO / THE KING OF LAUGHTER
2021, Italy/Spain, drama, 132’, R13
SYNOPSIS: At the beginning of the 20th century, in Belle Époque Naples, theatres and the cinema were thriving. The great comic actor Eduardo Scarpetta was the king of the box office. Of humble origin, he made his reputation with his comedies and the character of Felice Sciosciammocca. The theatre was his life and around the theatre gravitated the whole of his peculiar family, composed of wives, partners, lovers and legitimate and illegitimate children, including Titina, Eduardo and Peppino De Filippo.
In 1904, at the height of his popularity, Scarpetta took a great risk: he staged a parody of La figlia di Iorio, a tragedy written by the greatest Italian poet of the day, Gabriele D’Annunzio. The evening of its première in the theatre all hell broke loose: the performance was interrupted by boos and catcalls and Scarpetta ended up being sued for plagiary by D’Annunzio himself. It was the beginning of the first ever lawsuit on copyright in Italy.
The years that the case took would be draining for him and his whole family. Everything in Scarpetta’s life seemed to be falling apart, but with the act of a great thespian he would take his fate into his own hands and win in the end.
Filmmaker: Mario Martone
Cast: Toni Servillo, Maria Nazionale, Cristiana Dell’Anna, Antonia Truppo, Eduardo Scarpetta, …
DAY 2, APRIL 01, FRIDAY
at 6:30 PM talk with the filmmaker Hleb Papou
at 4:30 PM film screening
IL LEGIONARIO / THE LEGIONNAIRE
2021, Italy/France, 81’, drama, R13
SYNOPSIS: You may choose to ignore it but right now, in Rome, there’s a battle raging. Thousands of desperate people are forced to occupy empty buildings in order to have a roof over their heads. The police are entrusted with the responsibility of upholding the law and stopping this from happening. Daniel, born in Rome of African parents, grew up in an occupied building. Many years ago, he decided to leave and make a life for himself, but now he is forced to go back only this time, as a policeman with the mobile task force. His job is to evict the building where his mother and his brother still live. In fact, his brother has become the leader of the occupiers and Daniel, a cop among occupiers or an occupier among cops, must choose: remain faithful to his police corp or save his family from eviction.
Filmmaker: Hieb Papou
Cast: cast: Germano Gentile, Maurizio Bousso, Ilir Jacellari, Giancarlo Porcacchia, Marco Falaguasta, Simona Senzacqua, Hedy Krissane, Ilir Jacellari, Ina Gjika, Antonio Veneziano
at 7:30 PM film screening
MARX PUO’ ASPETTARE / MARX CAN WAIT
2021, Italy/Germany, 100’, docu, R16
SYNOPSIS: Through this film with its enigmatic title, the filmmaker attempts to understand, humbly and retrospectively, his twin borther's suicide at the age of 29. A family tragedy that he has never really recovered from, both a source of guilt and inspiration. Blending excerpts from his films and conversations with people close to him, Bellocchio investigates this fraternal figure that never ceases to haunt his filmography.
Filmmaker and screenwriter: Marco Bellocchio
Music: Ezio Bosso
DAY 3, APRIL 02, SATURDAY
at 4:30 PM film screening
TAKEAWAY
2021, Italy/Germany, 87’, drama, R13
SYNOPSIS: Maria is ambitious in professional sports, she is a walker. Johnny, a past career as medical assistant in the GDR Olympic team, helps her with illegal substances backed by her parents. As they encounter Tom, whose health Johnny ruined through doping, it comes to a showdown.
Filmmaker: Renzo Carbonera
at 6:30 PM: talk with the filmmaker Renzo Carbonera
at 7:30 PM film screening
LA TANA / THE DEN
2021, Italy, 88’, drama, R13
SYNOPSIS: In the summer of his nineteenth year, Giulio has decided not to go away: he will spend his vacation at home, helping his parents with their work in the vegetable garden. In the house next door, empty for some time, arrives Lia, a twenty-year-old girl. Giulio would like to get to know her, but she is sullen and introverted. One day Giulio is swimming in the lake and Lia plays at drowning him. Giulio is a regular guy, sensitive and polite to a fault. Attracted to her, he starts thinking about her day and night. Lia initiates him into strange and increasingly dangerous “games.” The girl won’t talk about herself though. She has told him she came alone to spend her vacation in the old family home, where she hadn’t been since she was a child. But Lia has secrets to keep and won’t let anyone set foot in the old and abandoned house.
Filmmaker: Beatrice Baldacci
Cast: Irene Vetere, Lorenzo Aloi, Hélène Nardini, Elisa Di Eusanio, Paolo Ricci, Federico Rosati
DAY 4, APRIL 03, SUNDAY
at 4:30 PM film screening
FUTURA
2021, Italy, 105’, Documentary, R16
SYNOPSIS: Futura is a truly collective work, where collectiveness is at the service of a whole project. It explores what boys and girls from 15 to 20 think about the future, through a series of interviews filmed during a long journey across Italy. It is a portrait of the country, as seen through the eyes of a group of teens who talk about the places they live in, their dreams, expectations, desires and fears.
Filmmakers: Pietro Marcello; Francesco Munzi; Alice Rohrwacher
at 7:30 PM film screening
ARIA FERMA / THE INNER CAGE
2021, Italy/Switzerland, 117’, R16
SYNOPSIS: An old prison built in the 19th century, located in a remote and unspecified part of the Italian territory, is being decommissioned. As a result of bureaucratic holdups the transfers have been blocked and a dozen inmates are left, along with a few guards, waiting to be sent to new destinations. In a suspended atmosphere, the rules that keep them separate are slackened and new forms of relationship emerge among the remaining men.
Directed by: Leonardo Di Costanzo
Cast: Toni Servillo, Silvio Orlando, …
DAY 5, APRIL 04, MONDAY
at 7:30 PM film screening
DIARIO DI SPEZIE / DIARY OF SPICES
2021, Italy, thriller, 95’, PREVIEW
SYNOPSIS: What is the strange bond between Luca Treves, a famous chef and spice connoisseur, and Andreas Dürren Fischer, renowned restorer of Flemish paintings? Two different worlds, art and cuisine, collide in a tense and mysterious thriller. Andreas will bring Luca on a road trip across Germany’s dense forests and Austria’s mountains during which the restorer will uncover piece by piece unspeakable secrets, forcing the chef to face his ghosts and make appalling choices. But there is a man that follows them at a distance: a detective who has worked for years on an international terrifying cold case. Will he be able to find the answers he’s looking for and save Luca from falling into this dangerous private hell?
Filmmaker: Massimo Donati
Cast: Lorenzo Richelmy, Fabrizio Ferracane, Fabrizio Rongione, Galatea Belluigi
TRIBUTE TO PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
DAY 1, MAR. 31, THURSDAY, 11:00 AM, film screening of Pasolini’s
MAMMA ROMA
1962, 102’, classic/drama, R16
SYNOPSIS: After many years working in the streets of Roma, the middle-age whore Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) saves money to buy an upper class apartment, a fruit stand and retires from the prostitution. She brings her teenage son Ettore (Ettore Garofolo), who was raised alone in the country, to live with her, and Ettore becomes her pride and joy.
However, the boy that does not want to study or work, joins to idle friends, has a crush on a bitch, and Mamma Roma uses her best but limited efforts to straight Ettore and make him an honest man. However, her past haunts her with tragic consequences.
Cast: Anna Magnani
Filmmaker, screenwriter: Pier Paolo Pasolini
DAY 5, APR. 4, MONDAY, 11:00 AM, film screening of
LA RABBIA DI PASOLINI / THE RAGE
2008 (1963), documentary, 83’, R16
Filmmakers: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giuseppe Bertolucci
Starring: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Fidel Castro, Charles de Gaulle
SYNOPSIS: in 1963 was organized a cine-match between Paosolini and Guareschi, among the most important intellectuals of that time, in Italy. They were tasked to explain the origins of the fear and the conflicts that were shaking the world in the 1960s.
Based on the unreleased material filmed by Pasolini himself, Giuseppe Bertolucci gives a new life and voice to Pier Paolo Pasolini point of view on the topic.
In the Philippines, MOVIEMOV is organized under the auspices of the Embassy of Italy to the Philippines; in collaboration with The Philippine Italian Association, the Film Development Council of the Philippines, the Italian Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines; in partnership with the Film Institute of the University of the Philippines Diliman, Ateneo de Manila University, Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan, the MINT College, College of St. Benilde-School of Design and the Arts (Digital Filmmaking program), Asian Institute of Maritime Studies (School of Heritage), Lyceum University of the Philippines Cavite, University of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines (Office of Arts and Culture), Far Eastern University, University of the Philippines Los Baños, University of the Cordilleras (College of Arts and Sciences), University of San Carlos, Ateneo de Naga University Press, Savage Mind, Ateneo Association of European Studies Students, UP Euro-Filipino Understanding and Relations Organization, and Communication Program Council of the University De La Salle of Dasmariñas; in media partnership with Art+ magazine and The Philippine Business and News.
