Enjoy nine recent Italian films and one program of short films at the 2023 Italian Film Festival USA of Portland. Films shown in Italian with English subtitles at Fifth Avenue Cinema, 510 SW Hall Street, on the campus of Portland State University, and the Lincoln High School Theatre, 1750 SW Salmon St. Sponsored by Volpi Foods, Caffè Umbria, Giovannai Cafiso-Inhabit Real Estate, Mucca Restaurant, Gallo Nero, Pinolo Gelato, Italian Benvenuti Club, Nostrana, Nicoletta's Table and Il Bel Paese Genealogia; in collaboration with the Associazione Culturale Italiana and Portland State University.

Schedule:

Friday, April 14, 2023

7:00 p.m: The Champion (Director, Leonardo D'Agostini, Comedy/Drama, 2019, 105 min.) - Lincoln High School Theatre - Film Sponsors: Caffè Umbria and Giovannai Cafiso-Inhabit

Valerio is a lonely professor who is assigned to help Christian, a star soccer player, pass his high school equivalency exam. The two could not be more different! But they will learn to lean on each other.

Saturday, April 15, 2023

7:00 p.m: Tomorrow’s A New Day (Director, Simone Spada, Drama/Comedy, 2019, 100 min.) - 5th Avenue Cinema - Film Sponsor: Mucca Restaurant

Giuliano and Tommaso have been friends for more than thirty years, but the next four days will be the hardest they’ve ever known. Tommaso returns to Rome to help Giuliano who is ill and worried about the future of his dearest companion, Pato, a wide-eyed Bernese mountain dog.

9:00 p.m: Nevia (Director, Nunzia De Stefano, Drama, 2019, 86 min.) - 5th Avenue Cinema - Film Sponsor: Gallo Nero

Nevia is seventeen, too grown up before she's even had the chance to be a child. Tiny and naive, but stubborn, she and her sister Enza are being raised by their grandmother in a container park in Ponticelli.

Sunday, April 16, 2023

4:00 p.m: L’immensità (Director, Emanuele Crialese Cerasuolo, Drama, 2022, 94 min.) - 5th Avenue Cinema - Film Sponsor: Pinolo Gelato

Rome, 1970s. Clara and Felice have just moved into a new apartment despite their marriage being over. Their eldest child, Adriana, has just turned twelve and rejects her name, her identity, and wants to convince everyone that she is a boy. Her obstinacy brings the already fragile family balance to the breaking point.

6:00 p.m: The Invisible Witness (Director, Stefano Mordini, Drama, 2018, 102 min.) - 5th Avenue Cinema - Film Sponsor: Italian Benvenuti Club

Adriano, a rich industrialist, is charged with murder. He chooses Virginia Ferrara, a veteran attorney who has never lost a case, to decide the defense strategy. With no alternative, he is forced to tell the full truth to the lawyer. Will he be freed?

Friday, April 21, 2023

7:00 p.m: Nostalgia (Director, Mario Martone, Drama, 2022, 118 min.) - 5th Avenue Cinema - Film Sponsor: Nostrana

After forty years abroad, Felice returns to Napoli. He does not heed the advice of others to leave and forget a dangerous friendship--as if it were possible to leave behind a city that has entered your heart forever.

9:30 p.m.: The Passion Of Anna Magnani (Director, Enrico Cerasuolo, Documentary, 2019, 60 min.)  - 5th Avenue Cinema - Film Sponsor: Nicoletta’s Table

An intimate portrait of the great Italian actress Anna Magnani. In 1956, she was won an Academy Award for Best Actress and remains the only Italian actress to win for an English-speaking film.

Saturday, April 22, 2023

7:00 p.m: Well But Not Very Well (Director, Francesco Mandelli, Drama, 2018, 100 min.)  - 5th Avenue Cinema

Candida is fifteen years old. When her father loses his job, she moves to Turin with him, starts a new life, and attends a new high school. She makes friends with Jacopo, an introverted boy who's often bullied by his classmates, and the two get along well, but his father does not approve of their friendship.

9:00 p.m: Aspromonte, Land Of The Forgotten (Director, Mimmo Calopresti, Drama, 2019, 87 min.) - 5th Avenue Cinema - Film Sponsor: Il Bel Paese Genealogia

In 1951, no road connects a small village in the southern valley of Aspromonte with other towns. In the wake of a tragedy, the inhabitants put aside their work and unite to build a road.

Sunday, April 23, 2023

4:00 p.m: Short Film Program (Comedy, Drama, Animation 2022, 100 min.) - 5th Avenue Cinema

Six recent films—L'allaccio, Mammarranca, Briciole, Caramelle, Story of Your Life and Tana libera tutti—are in competition for your vote for best short film.

Date: April 14 - 23, 2023

Locations:

Fifth Avenue Cinema, 510 SW Hall Street, Portland, Oregon, 97201

Lincoln High School, 1750 SW Salmon St, Portland, OR 97205

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