Enjoy the local premieres of eight recent, critically acclaimed Italian films at the 2024 Italian Film Festival USA of Milwaukee. All films shown at the Union Cinema, Kenwood Boulevard and Maryland Avenue, on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Schedule of Events:

April 26, 2024:

7:00 p.m: Thank You Guys (Grazie Ragazzi)
Director, Riccardo Milani, Comedy, 2022, 117 min.

Antonio takes a job as a drama teacher in a penitentiary and discovers talent in an unlikely company of prisoners. He convinces the warden to stage a play at an actual theatre. Will a triumphal tour begin?

9:15 p.m: Palazzina Laf
Director, Michele Riondino, Drama, 2023, 99 min.

Caterino works at the steel mill in Taranto. Company management decides to eliminate problem employees and asks him to spy on co-workers who are then assigned to the LAF building. Not understanding the situation, he asks to be placed in the LAF building. But what really goes on there?

April 27, 2024:

5:00 p.m: Romeo Is Juliet (Romeo E Giulietta)
Director, Giovanni Veronesi, Comedy, 2024, 102 min.

Young actress Vittoria is humiliated by a director during an audition for the role of Juliet; she tries again but under a false identity…as Otto auditioning for the role of Romeo! Can she pull it off?

7:00 p.m: Kidnapped (Rapito)
Director, Marco Bellocchio, Drama, 2023, 125 min.

Papal States,1858. The Pope's soldiers burst into the home of the Mortara family in Bologna’s Jewish quarter and take seven-year-old Edgardo because a maid, believing that he had been on the verge of death, had secretly baptized him as a baby. Based on the true story of Edgardo Mortara.

9:15 p.m: Bad Conscience (Cattiva Coscienza)
Director, Davide Minnella, Comedy, 2023, 110 min.

Filippo is a classic good guy and faithful fiancé to Luisa. Is it possible to be so perfect? Yes, if you have a conscience like Otto that controls your every move. One day, however, Otto arrives late at his workstation in the "Other World" and discovers that in a few minutes Filippo has turned his life upside!

April 28, 2024:

3:00 p.m: Billy
Director, Emilia Mazzacurati, Comedy, 2023, 97 min.

Billy, a child prodigy who hosted a successful music podcast, is now nineteen and lives with his eccentric mother. A meeting with his childhood idol will lead him to find a new way to face the future.

5:00 p.m: A Hundred Sundays (Cento Domeniche)
Director, Antonio Albanese, Drama, 2023, 94 min.

Antonio is overjoyed when his only child, Emilia, announces her engagement. He is proud to use his life savings to give her the reception she has always wanted. But is his bank hiding something?

7:00 p.m: The De Filippo Siblings (I Fratelli De Filippo)
Director, Sergio Rubini, Drama, 2021, 142 min.

Eduardo De Filippo, one of Italy’s greatest playwrights, and his siblings Titina and Peppino grew up in the early 1900s in Naples. Their difficult family life gave them a new perspective to theatre.

Dates: April 26 - 28, 2024

Location:

Union Cinema,
2200 East Kenwood Boulevard,
Milwaukee, WI 53211.

Admission: Free

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