Come spend an evening in Italy! Enjoy the local premieres of two recent, critically-acclaimed Italian films and a program of short films at the 2025 Italian Film Festival USA of Kansas City. Films shown in Italian with English subtitles at the Royall Hall, Room 104, at 800 E 52nd Street, on the campus of the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). National Sponsor: Your Italian Passport.

Schedule of Events:

Monday, April 7, 2025

6:00 pm: The Commander - Comandante

Director, Edoardo De Angelis, Drama, Historical, 2023, 122 min.

One dark night in October 1940, while navigating in the Atlantic, the Italian submarine Cappellini comes upon the armed Belgian merchant ship Kabalo. A fierce battle ensues in which the Cappellini sinks the Kabalo. Commander Salvatore Todaro then makes a decision that would go down in history

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Monday, April 14, 2025

6:00 pm: Short Film Program - Programma Di Cortometraggi

Comedy, Drama, 2024, 110 min.

Seven recent films-L'acquario, Nina, Love and Chewing Gum, Ronzio, Il taglio di Jonas, Superbi and Il Giardino delle Delizie-are in competition for your vote for best short film.

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Monday, April 28, 2025

6:00 pm: LILIANA

Director, Ruggero Gabbai, Documentary, 2024, 97 min.

Liliana Segre retraces her extraordinary life story, from her arrest , deportation at the age of thirteen from Milan to Auschwitz and poignant final farewell to her father, to her nomination to Senator for life by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella in 2018.

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Date:
April 7 - 28, 2025

Location:
University of Missouri-Kansas City,
5000 Holmes St,
Kansas City, MO 64110

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