Schedule of Events:

April 6, 6:30 p.m.

Don't Stop Me Now

Giovanna maintains a low-profile,dividing her time between an apparently boring job as an accountant at the Ministry and her home life, where she is busy with her daughter Martina and her overbearing mother.

But behind this dull façade, Giovanna is actually a secret agent, engaged in extremely dangerous and thrilling international missions. During a reunion with her former high school classmates, Giovanna decides on a new mission that will improve the lives of her family and friends.

Location: Student Union Theatre, Room 103, University of Missouri, KC

April 12, 6:30 p.m.

The Champion

Young, talented, and very spoiled, Christian Ferro is “The Champion,” a rock star of the soccer world. Valerio, lonely, shy, and burdened with financial problems, is the professor who is assigned to the young soccer star to help him pass his high school equivalency exam.

The two men could not be more different. But they will learn to lean on each other, generating a bond that will change them both.

Location: Student Union Theatre, Room 103, University of Missouri, KC

April 19, 6:30 p.m.

Short Film Program

-The Connection

Rome, 1946.  A young technician receives the strange order to install a telephone in the Verano cemetery. Director Roberto Rossellini is asking for the connection; he needs the phone to complete the film Germany, Year Zero without leaving the grave of his son Romano, who died tragically at the age of nine.

-Mammarranca

Giovanni and Michele are eleven and nine years old and they live in Sant’Elia, a working class neighborhood on the outskirts of Cagliari. The lives of the two children suddenly seem to change when a scratch card ends up in their hands.

-Crumbs

Alfredo is a policeman whose wife is expecting their fourth child. Work and life problems are crushing him.          

-Sweets

Lucia is a middle-aged woman who occasionally visits her father’s grave in the local cemetery. One day, she finds a candy wrapper on the tomb. It’s a curious event that will happen again and again...         

-Story of Your Life

The story of the life of a man, from birth to age 80, in a few minutes.     

-Olly Olly Oxen Free

Alì is a 10-year-old Afghan boy who lives in a tent city in Greece. He spends most of the time with his friends and “housemates” and every day he tries in vain to illegally board the ferry bound for Italy. In his last attempt, though, following his friend’s advice, Alì decides to hide inside a camper. In this way, he finds himself face to face with Claudio, an Italian boy of the same age, who’s leaving the island with his family and camper after spending summer vacation at a camping site not far from the tent city.

Location: Student Union Theatre, Room 103, University of Missouri, KC

April 27, 6:30 p.m.

The Invisible Witness

Adriano wakes up in a hotel room next to the dead body of his lover, Laura. The door is locked from the inside and there is no evidence of anybody else in the room.

Despite his claims of innocence, Adriano is charged with murder and chooses Virginia Ferrara, a veteran criminal attorney who has never lost a trial, to decide the defensive strategy. The two only have three hours to prepare the case, discredit a key witness who’s accusing Adriano, and find the key evidence confirming his innocence. With no alternative, Adriano is forced to tell the full truth to the lawyer.

Location: Student Union Theatre, Room 103, University of Missouri, KC

Date: April 6-27, 2023

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