The third Italian Film Festival will take place in Chisinau on October 25-27, organized by the Gaudeamus Center of Culture in cooperation with the Embassy of Italy in Moldova, IPN reports.
According to a communiqué of the Gaudeamus Center, three films made during the last few years will be shown within the festival.
The film “Si puo fare” (“It can be done”) by Giulio Manfredonia describes the city Milan at the beginning of the 1980s. Nello is a trade union activist with much too advanced ideas for the time he lived in. Considered an inconvenient person inside trade unions, he is demoted to the post of director of an association of mentally ill people employed to perform useless assistance activities. Being in close contact with his new employees, he discovers the potential of each of them and decides to engage them in team work.
The movie “Mine vaganti” (“Mined Field”) by Ferzan Ozpetek tells the story of the Cantone family that owns one of the most important pasta factories in Salento. The grandmother founds the company together with her brother-in-law with whom she was in love all her life. The return home of the youngest son Tommaso, who moved to Rome to study economy and trade, represents for the family a suitable moment for announcing the transfer of the company to the two sons of the family. Tommaso is ready to thwart the family’s plans and to reveal that he is homosexual and wants to achieve his literary aspirations. But, during the formal dinner held to celebrate the new course of the company, he is anticipated by his elder brother Antonio, who, after many years of loyal work at the service of the family, announces that he is homosexual and is thus removed from the company’s administration and driven away.
“Malavoglia” (“The Malavoglia Family) by Pasquale Scimeca presents the story of a family of fishermen. After the wreck of the ship, the family goes through difficult patches and 20-years-old ‘Ntoni starts to drink. But the idea of recording the voice of his grandfather who recites proverbs on a track enables him to redeem the house and to put his ship back on water.
The films will be screened daily in the original at 6pm. Entrance is free of charge.
