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Boston Italian Film Festival 2024

Arts and Entertainment

March 21, 2024

From: Boston Italian Film Festival

Schedule of Events:

April 6, 7:00 p.m.

Billy

Billy was a child prodigy who invented and hosted a successful music podcast at nine years old. He is now 19 years old, lives with his eccentric mother, is secretly in love with a girl and doesn't know what to do with his life. A meeting with his childhood idol, a rocker who has been missing for years, will lead him to find a new way to face the future. But what we desire so much doesn't always go as we would like.

Location: Boston College - Stokes Hall - 59-107 College Road Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

April 10, 7:00 p.m.

Palazzina Laf

1997. Caterino is one of the many workers in the Ilva steel mill in Taranto. Company management decides to eliminate problem employees and asks Caterino to spy on co-workers. Soon, not understanding the situation, he, too, asks to be placed in the LAF building, where employees, as punishment, are forced to report to work but have no other activity than to pass the time.

Caterino will discover first hand that what seems like a paradise is in reality nothing but a perverse strategy to psychologically break the unwanted workers, pushing them to resign or be demoted, in what has since been termed as “mobbing”. And there is no way out for Caterino from that hell.

Based on a true story that culminated in the first Italian trial for mobbing of workers.

Location: Boston University Law Alumni Auditorium - 767 Commonwealth Ave Boston, MA 02215

April 20, 1:00 p.m.

Thank You Guys

Antonio is a passionate but often unemployed actor. Faced with a lack of job offers, he accepts a job as a teacher of a theater workshop in a penitentiary institution. Hesitant at first, he discovers talent in the unlikely company of prisoners and this rekindles his passion and desire to do theatre. Antonio manages to convince the prison director to stage Samuel Beckett's famous play Waiting for Godot on a real theater stage. Day after day the inmates let themselves go, discovering the liberating power of art and its ability to give purpose and hope beyond expectation.

When the final green light arrives, will the tour be successful?

Location: Cinema Salem - 1 East India Square Mall Salem, MA 01970

Date: April 6, 10 and 20, 2024

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