Tuesday 19 June 2018

3 ICFF films that fight for their land

June 14-22, 2018
Toronto -Bell Lightbox- Vaughan-Hamilton and more cities


Fabio Ravazzi
Giuseppe Battiston

I have been going to the Italian Contemporary Film Festival for the past few years and I really enjoy the films and the festival is organized really well too.

I have only seen a few films so far but the first 3 films seem to have 3 common threads between them.

They all seem to have common themes of Family, Integrity and taking care of the Earth.   They all have a lot of love and heart as well.  I really enjoy the Italian style of comedies,  you leave the theatres feeling really great and having a bit of an escape for a couple of hours.

The film Il Vegetale has it's lead character taking over his fathers land and growing vegetables and his relationship with his family.

Tulipani has a man from Holland settling in Italy and growing Tulips and creating a new family with the people he meets on his arrival and fights the protection system that is hurting the local businesses.

The Last Prosecco has a lonely Police Officer investigating the death of a local Wine Producer with the help of his daughter who is his only heir.

I really enjoyed all 3 films and encourage you to try and find them.  I know that Il Vegetale will be coming out in September and has a local Toronto distributor to thank for that so I hope you get a chance to see it in the Fall.

The great thing about ICFF is also the Directors and Actors who come from Italy and the US for the festival as seen above with Fabio Ravazzi and Giuseppe Battiston.  Maybe not famous to Canadians but known by Italians who love Italian Cinema.

Il Vegetale
Directed by Gennaro Nunziante
FILM INFO
Year 2018  Duration 90 min  Country Italy Genre Comedy Language English
Fabio Rovazzi is a 24’year’old graduate in Communication Sciences who lives in Milan “with a view of the future”. Fabio is looking for a job, dealing with a cumbersome father and a spoiled little sister, both of whom consider him to be a useless “vegetable”. He is searching for a career that respects his ethical criteria, but he knows that his weak spot is trust, both in himself and in others. An unexpected event will suddenly change everything. Between comical situations and paradoxical finds, our protagonist will have to reinvent his life.

CAST & CREDITS


DirectorGennaro Nunziante
Producer3zero2tv
The Walt Disney Company Italia
DistributorsMedusa Film
The Walt Disney Company Italia
CastFabio Rovazzi
Luca Zingaretti
Ninni Bruschetta
Paola Calliari

Tulipani

Directed by Mike Van Diem

FILM INFO
Year 2017  Country Olanda/Italia/Canada/Lituania  Length 90 min  Genre Comedy/Drama Subtitles English

This story is one of passion in which pain meets irony; a voyage in the south of Italy during the ‘50s and ‘80s where the rediscovery of one’s origins and the reconciliation with the past meets the liberating powers of revenge. Anna arrives from Canada in the heel of Italy with the aim of bringing home the ashes of her mother, originally from those lands. She will discover the shocking truth regarding her family, the identity of her real parents and how, twenty-five years before, they had fought the local mafia... on a field of tulips

CAST & CREDITS

DirectorMike van Diem
ProducerFatt Productions
DistributorsA71 Entertainment
CastKsenia Solo
Gijs Naber
Lidia Vitale
Giancarlo Giannini
Anneke Sluiters


The Last Prosecco

Directed by Antonio Padovan
FILM INFO
Year 2017 Country Italia Length 101 min Genre Comedy/Mystery Subtitle English
The story unravels on the rolling hills where Prosecco grapes are grown; a winemaker Count, fighting to protect his territory, a stubborn half Italian half Persian police inspector; the manager of a cement plant, killed by three gunshots; and a crazy man who scrapes the rust from the tombs in the cemetery. A story about the inheritance of beauty and the value of quality. In 2010, north-east Italy began to feel a recession which nobody had expected. Only one productive sector resisted: Prosecco. This film forces us to remember that anyone who destroys the land destroys the future for everyone. 


CAST & CREDITS

DirectorAntonio Padovan
ProducerK+
DistributorParthenos
CastGiuseppe Battiston
Rade Serbedzija
Liz Solari
Silvia D'Amico

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