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Italian Film Festival of Phoenix
ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL USA
OF Phoenix
April 20 – 21, 2024
ASU MIX Center: 50 N Centennial Way
Mesa, AZ 85201
FREE admission. For further information,
visit visit www.italianfilmfests.org
SALVATORE, SHOEMAKER OF DREAMS • SALVATORE, IL CALZOLAIO DEI SOGNI
Saturday, April 20 • 1:00 p.m.
(Director, Luca Guadagnino, Documentary, 2020, 120 min.)
Salvatore Ferragamo, born in Calabria, immigrated to Los Angeles where he created footwear
for silent movie films and celebrities. He returned to Italy and built a fashion empire
headquartered in Florence. Film in honor of the “Made in Italy” Day..
ZAMORA
Saturday, April 20 • 3:15 p.m.
(Director, Neri Marcorè, Comedy, 2023, 100 min.)
Walter, an accountant, must take part in weekly employee soccer games and becomes the
hapless goalie. Feeling betrayed and embarassed in front of a love interest, Walter devises a
plan to take revenge!
THANK YOU GUYS • GRAZIE RAGAZZI
Saturday, April 20 • 5:15 p.m.
(Director, Riccardo Milani, Comedy, 2022, 117 min.)
Antonio takes a job as a drama teacher in a penitentiary and discovers talent in an unlikely
company of prisoners. He convinces the warden to stage Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
at an actual theatre. Will a triumphal tour begin?
SHORT FILM PROGRAM • PROGRAMMA DI CORTOMETRAGGI
Sunday, April 21 • 1:00 p.m.
(Comedy, Drama,, 2023, 110 min.)
Eight recent films—Recomaterna, Il mare che muove le cose, Tracce perdute, Sky(pe),
Menomale, Ignoti, La neve coprirà tutte le cose and Lisianthus—are in competition for your
vote for best short film.
WINTER LEMONS • I LIMONI D’INVERNO
Sunday, April 21 • 3:00 p.m.
(Director, Caterina Carone, Drama, 2023, 110 min.)
Pietro and Eleonora are strangers who only meet because their two terraces are close to each
other. The relationship that grows between them helps to soothe each one’s secret pain. In this
limbo they inhabit, the two take a chance at finding happiness together.
THE DE FILIPPO SIBLINGS • I FRATELLI DE FILIPPO
Sunday, April 21 • 5:00 p.m.
(Director, Sergio Rubini, Drama, 2021, 142 min.)
Edoardo De Filippo, one of Italy’s greatest playwrights, and his siblings Titina and Peppino
grew up in the early 1900s in Naples. Their difficult family life gave them a new perspective
and approach to the theatre.
Enjoy the local premiere of five recent Italian films and a program of short films at the 2024 Italian
Film Festival USA of Phoenix. All films shown at the Media and Immersive eXperience
(MIX) Center, 50 North Centennial Way, Mesa. Sponsored by National Italian American Foundation
and Arizona State University’s School of International Letters and Cultures. Cultural Partner: the
Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles.
ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL USA
OF Phoenix
April 20 – 21, 2024
FREE admission. For further information,
visit visit http://www.italianfilmfests.org