Country:Italy

Director:Luchino Viscont

Summary:

Visconti’s most elaborate film is set in Sicilly in the 1860s and scrutinizes the transition of a dying aristocracy as it struggles to maintain itself against changing times.

Country:Italy

Director:Luca Guadangnino

Summary:

A highly baroque melodrama, sweeping dynastic saga of inter-generational conflict, of a struggle for power and an exploration of politics and of female sexual discovery and emancipation.

Country:Italy

Director:Marco Bellochio

Summary:

Bellolchio's newest film is a meta cinematic journey through history replete with rhyming newsreel footage, detailing the lost woman and child behind the most public of men: Benito Mussolini.

Country:Italy

Director:Gillo Pontecorvo

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Summary:

A British agent, (Marlon Brando), is an agent provocateur sent to the island of Queimada to organize an uprising of black slaves to overthrow the Portuguese regime.

Country:Italy

Director:Bernardo Bertolucci

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Summary:

The life of the last Emperor of China from his ascension to the throne as a boy to his imprisonment and political rehabilitation by the Chinese Communist authorities.

Country:Italy

Director:Gillo Pontecorvo

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Summary:

This masterpiece reconstructs events which occurred in the city of Algiers during the Algerian War of Independence.

Country:Italy

Director:Gillo Pontecorvo

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Summary:

This masterpiece reconstructs events which occurred in the city of Algiers during the Algerian War of Independence.

Country:Italy

Director:Roberto Rossellini

Program:World Parallel

Summary:

The events that lead to the all encompassing power and abundancy of Louis XIV, French king of the sun, in a tale of betrayal and deceit.

Country:Italy

Director:Cecilia Pennacini

Summary:

Ugandan writer Moses Isegawa takes us on a personal tour of the secret pockets of alternate religious faith found throughout Kampala and environs.

Country:Italy

Director:Attilio Gatti

Program:The Lineage of Parallel Cinema

Summary:

In the annals of African cinema, Siliva the Zulu is a landmark. In 1927, Italian director and explorer Attilio Gatti traveled to Zululand along with famous anthropologist Lidio Cipriani, in order to create a film that would weave genuine anthropological elements into a fantasy of witchcraft and betrayal. He further developed his script with love, hate, intrigue and adventure. Gatti took a Western romantic theme of "boy meets girl, boy loses girl" and stirred it together with ideas of "the tribal," choosing his actors from among the local Zulu tribe members.