Sun, Apr 22

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The Place

(2017)
105 min. – Comedy / Drama

Languages: Italian (English subtitles)

A mysterious man sits every day at the same table of the same restaurant, accepting to grant his visitors’ biggest wishes and assigning them peculiar tasks to accomplish in return. What will they be ready to do to get what they want?

2:30 pm

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Schedule for Sunday, April 22

A Ciambra

(2017)
118 min. – Drama

Languages: Italian (English subtitles)

Italy’s official submission to the Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film and executive produced by Martin Scorsese, this keenly observed drama from Jonas Carpignano revisits characters from his Mediterranea. At its center is Pio Amato, a 14-year-old boy living on the poor side of a Calabrian town (“A Ciambra”), where frictions between Italians, gypsies and African immigrants run high, and petty crime is a way of life. Carpignano elicits terrific performances from the predominantly nonprofessional cast, aided by Tim Curtin’s fluid cinematography. “A coming-of-age drama with a stealthy emotional charge that further enhances the writer-director’s reputation as a gifted practitioner of Italian neo-neorealism.” – David Rooney (THR)

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Seating limited; availability cannot be guaranteed.

Bianco di Babbudoiu

A Fistful of Grapes (2016)
93 min. – Comedy

Languages: Italian (English subtitles)

After an EU grant to expand their family winery falls through, a group of sibling discover they have only fifteen days to pay back the money the bank loaned them against the expected funding. Desperate to save the business and prevent their wives and girlfriends from finding out, they embark on a series of reckless hijinks to beg, borrow, steal and extort what it takes to pay the loan back.

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