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The growth and depth of friendship shared between two slightly homophobic priests. Part of Shorts Program 4: Animated Worlds

Season:
2013
Director:
Astutillo Smerigila
Cast:
Guglielmo Favilla and Fabrizio Odetto
Editor:
Astutillo Smeriglia
Producer:
Antonio Zucconi
Language:
Italian with English Subtitles

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Could you keep a secret for seven years? Luca did.

Season:
2012
Premiere status:
World Premiere
Director:
Mark Bacci
Cinematography:
Marcos Durian, Ugo Lopinto
Cast:
Andres Londono, Kate Nauta, Jordan Bridges, Jeannine Kaspar, Francesco Cippone, Louise Linton, Brooklyn Sudano, Alessio Vitale, Giulia Grandinetti, Djassi Dacosta Johnson
Editor:
Martin Desmond Roe
Producer:
Andrew Paolillo, John Credico
Executive Producer:
Damon Dash, Veronica Coppola
Language:
English
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Joel Shearer

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Maverick legend John Tuturro joins Cinequest to present the breathtaking Passione and to receive Cinequest?s Maverick Spirit Award.

Italy, a culture and a people beloved around the globe and Naples, Italy ?has seen it all: earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, foreign invasions, crime, poverty, corruption and neglect, but it is also a hotbed of music that explores ideas of love, loss, sex, jealousy, emigration, social protest, birth and death.? ? Toronto Film Festival

Season:
2011
Director:
John Turturro
Cinematography:
Marco Pontecorvo
Cast:
Misia, Massimo Ranieri, Peppe Barra, Max Casella, M'Barka Ben Taleb
Editor:
Simona Paggi
Producer:
Carlo Macchitella, Giorgio Magliulo, Alessandra Acciai
Language:
Italian with English subtitles

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Part of Shorts Program 3: Lost and Found

Season:
2011
Director:
Adriano Giannini

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Part of Shorts Program 1: Expectations

Season:
2011
Director:
Leonardo Guerra Seragnoli

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Part of Shorts Program 5: Mindbenders

Season:
2011
Director:
Massimo Cappelli

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A politically incorrect dark comedy about three chicks trying to get rid of a corpse.

Season:
2010
Premiere status:
WORLD PREMIERE
Director:
Laura Neri
Cinematography:
Gavin Kelly
Cast:
Lili Mirojnick, Katerina Moutsatsou, Maria-Elena Laas, Joe Lia
Editor:
Corey Ziemniak
Producer:
Laura Neri, Linda Pianigiani, Janeen Levin, Aldo Shllaku
Language:
English
Genre:
Comedy
Music:
Aldo Shllaku

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Afghanistan is not the kind of place one would expect to witness happiness, especially in the eyes of children who cannot truly comprehend concepts like war and hatred. All they see are their homes demolished daily, their families torn from them, and their own bodies ravaged by pain, fatigue, and hunger. Twenty-one clown doctors from around the world embark on a mission to carry cheerfulness and perhaps distraction to children injured in a country devastated by war.

Season:
2003
Director:
Enzo Balestrieri, Stefano Moser
Cinematography:
Stefano Moser
Editor:
Enzo Balestrieri, Stefano Moser, Roberto Ciani, Leonida Gennaro
Producer:
Marco Guidone, Giorgio Moser, David Grieco
Language:
English, Italian, and Pashtu with English subtitles

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The beauty of childhood and innocence are common themes in cinema, but rarely does a character evoke the purest of intentions and emotional simplicity. Seven-year-old Maria (depicted by Arancia Cecilia Grimaldi) is that precious find. Maria lives on the picturesque Italian island of Ustica. Realizing she doesn't have a present for her mother when her two brothers come home with a bouquet of wild flowers, Maria sets out alone to the market to buy irises for her mother. There is only one problem when she arrives at the market; Maria has only enough money for one iris.

Season:
2001
Director:
Aurelio Grimaldi
Cinematography:
Massimo Intoppa
Cast:
Arancia Cecilia Grimaldi, Guja Jelo, Salvatore Lazzaro, Barbara Gallo
Producer:
Arancia Cinema
Language:
Italian with English subtitles

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"Fast, funny, visually hip, but with a freshness." Variety, among other industry trades, has some strong words for writer/director Davide Ferrario's We All Fall Down. Walter wanders aimlessly through his life while others watch him go by. Our twenty-something "rebel without a cause, a job, or even a girlfriend" spends his life bouncing between his parents, his aunt, and the university. Walter doesn't know it, but he longs to lose his virginity. His only serious relationship is with the aunt who raised him.

Season:
1999
Director:
Davide Ferrario
Cinematography:
Giovanni Cavallini
Cast:
Valerio Mastandrea, Carlo Monni, and Caterina Caselli
Producer:
Gianfranco Piccioli
Language:
Italian with English subtitles
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