Schedule Of Events

November 7 2024

6:30 pm : Cinema Italian Style: There's Still Tomorrow

Italy - 2023 - 118 min - Paola Cortellesi

The highest grossing film of 2023 in Italy, There's Still Tomorrow is a vibrant, moving drama starring Paola Cortellesi (Like a Cat on a Highway) in her directorial debut.

November 8 2024

5:30 pm : Cinema Italian Style: What A Life!

Italy - 2023 -118 min- Paola Cortellesi

The highest grossing film of 2023 in Italy, There's Still Tomorrow is a vibrant, moving drama starring Paola Cortellesi (Like a Cat on a Highway) in her directorial debut.

8:00 pm : Cinema Italian Style: Mascarpone - The Rainbow Cake

Italy - 2024 - 105 min. - Alessandro Guida

After three years, Antonio and Luca are reunited. Antonio, a successful pastry chef, still has feelings for Luca, who is now engaged to Tancredi. With a sexy cast, a beautiful story, and intoxicating bakery goods, Mascarpone - The Rainbow Cake delivers the goods.

November 9 2024

1:00 pm : Cinema Italian Style: Family Matters

Italy - 2024 - 103 min. - Simone Godano

Featuring an all-star cast led by Riccardo Scamarcio, this ensemble drama - deftly directed with comedic touches - explores the relationships in an extended and dysfunctional family who are all gathering for the first time.

3:45 pm : Cinema Italian Style: My Place Is Here

Italy - 2024 - 110 min. - Daniela Porto, Cristiano Bortone

Set in the aftermath of WWII in a rural village in the South of Italy, a single mother befriends the local gay “wedding planner,” is introduced to the hidden community of gays, and starts understanding her rights as a woman.

7:00 pm :Cinema Italian Style: The Life Apart

Italy  2024  114 min.  Marco Tullio Giordana

The Best of Youth director Marco Tullio Giordana finds the music in the moving tale of a piano prodigy who plays her way out of her mother's shadow.

November 10 2024

1:00 pm : Cinema Italian Style: ll Grido

Italy - 1957 - 116 min. - Michelangelo Antonioni

Deserted by the mother of his child, a factory worker wanders through the gray landscape of the Po Valley in search of solace and meaning. Startlingly bleak, Antonioni’s rare departure from exploring affluent society is among his most politically trenchant films. New 4K restoration from Janus Films.

3:45 pm : Cinema Italian Style: The War Machine

Italy - 2023 - 120 min.-  Edoardo de Angelis

The formidable Pierfrancesco Favino delivers a powerhouse performance in gripping maritime thriller The War Machine, set in the beginning of the Second World War.

6:30 pm :Cinema Italian Style: My Killer Buddy

Italy - 2023 - 100 min. - Gianluca Santoni

In this buddy movie at child height, young Denni is on a mission: to save his mother from his father's violence. But he cannot do it alone, so he engages the skills of a “super-killer,” who only looks like a criminal...and is in desperate need of money.

November 11 2024

6:30 pm : Cinema Italian Style: Patagonia

Italy - 2023 - 112 min. - Simone Bozzelli

Twenty-year-old Yuri lives with his elderly aunt in the rural countryside. At a birthday party he meets Agostino, a wandering children's entertainer, who promises him the independence Yuri didn't know he was striving for.

November 12 2024

5:30 pm : Cinema Italian Style: A Dark Story

Italy - 2024 - 100 min. - Leonardo D'Agostini

Directed and co-written by Leonardo d'Agostini (The Champion) in his second feature film, A Dark Story is an enthralling thriller that seamlessly blends elements of film noir, legal drama and investigative mystery.

8:00 pm : Cinema Italian Style: Misericordia

Italy - 2023 - 95 min. - Emma Dante

Three Italian sex workers care for a vulnerable man in Emma Dante's allegorical third feature, exploring the theme of motherhood, and creating a poignant homage to women and to their capacity for love and resilience.

November 13 2024

5:30 pm : Cinema Italian Style: In the Mirror

Italy - 2023 - 83 min. - Roberta Torre

Alba Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro, La chimera) delivers a transformative performance in this immersive, compelling new drama and elegant homage to Monica Vitti from director/co-writer Roberta Torre

7:30 pm : Cinema Italian Style: Trust

Italy - 2024 - 136 min. - Daniele Luchetti

Daniele Luchetti's highly anticipated and star-studded new film part psychological thriller and part relationship saga follows a stormy love affair and a web of secrets, set to a moody soundtrack by Thom Yorke of Radiohead. Golden Globe Italy 2024 (Best Actor, Screenplay).

November 14 2024

6:30 pm : Cinema Italian Style: Vermiglio

Italy - 2024 - 119 min. - Maura Delpero

Towards the end of the Second World War, in a high, remote mountain village in the Italian Alps, the arrival of a refugee soldier alters the dynamics of the place forever. Italy’s Official 2025 Academy Awards® Submission (Best International Feature).

Date : November 7- 14 2024

Location:

SIFF Cinema Uptown

511 Queen Anne Avenue North 

Seattle, WA 98109

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