Italian film enthusiasts across the Bay are bracing for the 2013 Italian Film Festival, which kicks off its 37th iteration this weekend in Marin County at the Marin Showcase Theater. The festival is a labor of love by film director Lido Cantarutti, who is a Cavaliere Ufficiale of the Italian Government. We’re honored by his tireless work of steadily bringing top-quality film to the Bay for decades.
Tickets to the screenings of the 2013 Italian Film Festival, which run until November 2nd, can be purchased here.
Saturday’s opening night will feature No Hard Feelings, a story of four characters dealing with their respective ex’s, and also the sequel to the film that dazzled the Festival in 2010 (Many Kisses Later). See below for the official trailer.
Also at the festival, don’t miss Azzurro, the story of an expat worker in Switzerland, seventy-five year old Giuseppe De Metrio, who returns to retire in Puglia to be with his family, especially his seven-year old blind grand daughter. See the trailer below.
Festival goers can also enjoy three comedies on the menu, I Don’t Speak English directed by Carlo Vanzina, A Flat for Three directed by Carlo Vedrone and 100 Meters to Paradise directed by Raffaele Verzillo. On the more serious note, the drama The Red and the Blue directed by Giuseppe Piccioni will be showing later in October, as well as the amorous One Day More, directed by Massimo Venier.
We are especially pleased to celebrate this annual festival during the 2013 Year of Italian Culture in the US. So, come support Italian film and celebrate its diversity in our very own Marin County. See you there!