The 2024 edition of the Italian Film Days – in collaboration with Spazju Kreattiv and the M.A. in film studies of the Faculty of Arts (University of Malta) – is finally here!
A number of Italian movies playing for the first time in Malta!
All screenings are in Italian with English subtitles
Ticket PRICES REDUCED for the members of the Institute: don’t forget your membership card!
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IL SOL DELL’AVVENIRE (A Brighter Tomorrow)
by Nanni Moretti
Tuesday, March 26 at 19:30
The story takes place in the present day, when director Giovanni (Nanni Moretti) with the help of his wife Paola (Margherita Buy) is busy making his latest film, set in the Fifties with the characters of Ennio (Silvio Orlando) and Vera (Barbora Bobulova) who follow the Hungarian Uprising. Fiction splendidly interweaves with realism as Giovanni’s daughter (Valentina Romani) falls in love with an improbable Polish man (Jerzy Stuhr) and outrageous circumstances occur on set, showing also the advent of Korean investors in the film industry.
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L’ORDINE DEL TEMPO (The Order of Time)
by Liliana Cavani
Tuesday, April 16 at 19:30
What if you should come to know the world’s end is just a few hours away? Like every year, a group of old friends celebrates a birthday in a seaside villa. When they get the news, the time dividing them from the possible end seems to change its flow and suddenly feels fast yet endless. This summer night will transform their lives.
Between certainty and complete uncertainty there is a precious intermediate space — and it is in this intermediate space that our lives and our thoughts unfold.
(Carlo Rovelli, author of the essay “The order of Time” and science consultant for the movie)
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IL PIÙ BEL SECOLO DELLA MIA VITA (The best century of my life)
by Alessandro Bardani
Tuesday, May 21 at 19:30
An absurd law prevents Giovanni (Valerio Lundini), a son not recognized at birth, from knowing the identity of his biological parents before he turns 100. To be able to attract public attention, his only hope is to obtain the complicity of Gustavo (Sergio Castellitto), the only centenarian not recognized at birth still alive. Gustavo is the only one who would have the right to make use of this regulation but he seems to have no interest in doing so. An unexpected friendship will be born between the young man anchored in the past and the centenarian projected into the future.
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GLORIA!
by Margherita Vicario
Tuesday, June 25 at 19:30
It is late 18th century in Venice and, in a convent school for girls, Teresa – a girl with prophetic gifts – joins forces with some amazing music-makers. They create a new kind of music that is pop, bright and bold and challenges the ancient and rigid system.
The movie premiered at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival.
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UNA STORIA NERA (A Dark Story)
by Leonardo D’Agostini
Tuesday, July 30 at 19:30
Vito (Giordano De Plano) and Carla (Laetitia Casta) have been divorced for a few years. They loved each other very much before jealousy and violence destroyed their love. Now Vito has a new life and Carla has a new partner. The only bond is their three children Nicola, Rosa and little Mara. But the feeling of having avoided a foretold tragedy still hangs over Carla. When Mara asks to have her father by her side on her birthday, Carla, to make her happy, invites him to dinner. Despite the fear, the party goes surprisingly smoothly: they laugh, joke, and unwrap presents together. However after that night there was no news of Vito. He disappears into thin air without a trace. It will be the police who will shed light on his disappearance. Justice will be entrusted with the mission of finding out the truth about what happened.
But is there really only one, clear, irrefutable truth in such cases?