2025 Italian Film Festival
| Ticket Information Single Ticket: $26 ($23 Ticket + $3 Fee) Six Film Series Ticket: $138 ($132 Ticket + $6 Fee) Ticket prices include all fees. All films are in Italian or original language with subtitles in English. All films are suggested for mature audiences. All seating is assigned. Reservable ADA compliant seats are available in the two back rows – right and left of the orchestra level first floor. Seating on the second-floor balcony is not ADA accessible. Assisted listening devices are available. Event parking is located at 1475 Grand Avenue. For a map and directions to Angelico Concert Hall, visit the Italian Film Festival website. |
The 2025 Italian Film Festival celebrates is forty-eighth year with six top feature films from Italy!
Saturday, September 27, 2025 (Opening Night)
"A World Apart" ("Un mondo a parte")
Comedy / Drama, 2023, color, 113 minutes
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Elementary school teacher Michele requests a transfer from a derelict neighborhood school in Rome to a school (enrollment: 8) in the tranquil village of Rupe in Abruzzo. He hopes he can make a difference there. It’s an idyllic place in winter and summer; however, due to the lack of enrollment, the school is on the brink of closure. Moreover, the village is facing extinction as the youth leave the village for the cities. Michele and Agnese, the vice principal, believe the answer may be in recruiting Ukrainian and Moroccan families to immigrate to Rupe.
Directed by Riccardo Milani, with Antonio Albanese, and Virginia Raffaele
Distributed By:
Distrib Films US
32 Court Street, Suite 2107
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Attn: Clémence Thaillsndier
www.distribfilmsus.com
Saturday, October 4, 2025
"High Stakes" ("La scommessa – Una notte in corsia")
Comedy, 2024, Color, 84 Minutes
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Will their patient live until morning? Nurses Angelo and Salvatore make a bet. The Christmas holiday slot and 200 euros are at stake. Salvatore spends the night trying to keep the patient alive, while Angelo plays dirty to make sure he wins the bet. In a practically deserted hospital in Naples during Ferragosto, Italy’s mid-August holiday, anything goes at the hospital, from the nurse’s cheap shots to doctors on cocaine to suspicious characters lurking in the ward.
Directed by Giovanni Dota, with Carlo Buccirosso and Lino Musella
Distributed By:
Minerva Pictures Group
Via Marcella 4/6
Rome, ITALY 00153
+39 06 8422430
www.minervapictures.com
Saturday, October 11, 2025
"My Killer Buddy" ("Io e il secco")
Comedy / Drama, 2023, Color, 99 Minutes
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Ten-year old Denni has a violent father and a mother who takes his abuse. The child wants to save his mother, and when his friend Eva tells him that she has a cousin who is a paid killer, he thinks he has found the ideal solution. So Denni approaches Eva's cousin, nicknamed Secco, and orders him to kill his father, promising him a fee that the child takes from his father's safe. Secco is not particularly adept at this kind of work. However, he could use the money, so he accepts the job. The partnership leads to unexpected conclusions.
Directed by Gianluca Santoni, with Andrea Lattanzi Francesco Lombardo, and Barbara Ronchi
Distributed By:
Minerva Pictures Group
Via Marcella 4/6
Rome, ITALY 00153
+39 06 8422430
www.minervapictures.com
Saturday, October 18, 2025
"When Mom is Away with the In-Laws" ("10 giorni con i suoi")
Comedy, 2025, Color, 98 Minutes
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Carlo and Giulia Rovelli are preparing to leave for Puglia where their eldest daughter Camilla, now eighteen, wants to move to study at university. But since Camilla's plan is also to go and live with her Apulian boyfriend Antonio, Carlo is upset, and the meeting with those who could become her future in-laws is at risk. Carlo, behaving like an elephant in the china shop, makes himself an unwelcome guest. “Meet the Family” Italian style.
Directed by Alessandro Genovesi, with Fabio de Luigi, Valentina Lodovini, Dino Abbrescia, and Giulia Bevilacqua
Distributed By:
True Colours Glorious Films S.r.l.
Largo Italo Gemini, 1
Rome, ITALY 00161
+39 06 37352334
truecolours.it
Saturday, October 25, 2025
"There’s Still Tomorrow" ("C’è ancora domani")
Comedy / Drama / History, 2023, Black and White, 118 Minutes
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In this comedy drama set in Rome after World War II, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering husband. When a mysterious letter arrives, she discovers the courage to change the circumstances of her life. Winner of six Italian Academy Awards and the highest grossing Italian movie post-pandemic.
Directed by and starring Paola Cortellesi, with Valerio Mastandrea, and Romana Maggiora Vergano
Distribued By:
Greenwich Entertainment LLC
2934 North Beverly Glen Circle #300
Los Angeles, CA 90077
greenwichentertainment.com
Saturday, November 1, 2025, (Closing Night)
"Truffles" ("Trifole")
Adventure / Drama, 2024, Color, 100 Minutes
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Dalia is sent from her aimless life in London to check up on her grandfather, an experienced truffle hunter named Igor. Igor lives in Langhe, the land of the highly prized Alba White Truffle. These two initially rub each other the wrong way, with Igor seriously at risk financially and routinely mistaking his granddaughter for his daughter, Marta. Armed with his loyal truffle hunter dog Birba (“rascal”), they search for the prize winning truffle that will save his home.
Directed by Gabriele Fabbro, with Margherita Buy, Umberto Orsini, Ydalie Turk and “Birba” (the loyal truffle hunter dog)
Distributed By:
Officine UBU
Via M. Gioia, 65
Milano, ITALY 20124
+39 02 87383020
www.officineubu.com
