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Around the World – Italy

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Around the World – Italy

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Culture and politics, food and class, social changes and their reflection in Italian cinema.

12 meetings, every other Sunday, 10:00-13:00

Price: 685 NIS

On Politics Today in Italy

Viva la liberta

Dir.: Roberto Andò
| 95 minutes

When Opposition Leader Oliveri surprisingly announces his retirement from political life and disappears just before the elections, his political advisor Andrea Bottini enlists the help of Oliveri's eccentric twin brother, who puts a new spin on politics. 

Aristocracy in Decay

Materialist Conception and Disappearing Borders

I Am Love

Dir.: Luca Guadagnino
| 120 minutes

Emma is a Russian immigrant who marries into a rich Italian aristocrat family. She cannot help but feel suffocated by her life. To escape her reality, she has an affair with a much younger chef, a friend of her son. 

Drop the Gun, Take a Cannoli

Mid-August Lunch

Dir.: Gianni di Gregorio
| 75 minutes

Sixtysomething Giovanni lives with his 93-year-old widowed mother, who knows just how to push her bachelor son's buttons. As the mid-August feast approaches, Giovanni gets a surprising offer.

Nanni Moretti and the Italian Family in the New Millennium

Quiet Chaos

Dir.: Antonio Luigi Grimaldi
| 105 minutes

A widower makes a promise to wait for his daughter outside her school every day. The bench becomes a place of contemplation and self-discovery. An excellent and moving family drama that enjoys the sympathetic presence of Nanni Moretti.

On North African Immigration to Italy

Terraferma

Dir.: Emanuele Crialese
| 88 minutes

A Sicilian family is torn between the different forces that enter their lives-tourists from the North and illegal African immigrants from the South trying to find a better future. Terraferma utilizes the cinematic language to produce a compassionate and poignant drama. 

On the Game of Thrones between Religion and Politics

We Have a Pope

Dir.: Nanni Moretti
| 101 minutes

Fearing the position, the newly elected Pope flees. But that won't do, and the heads of the Church hire a therapist to help him with his qualms. Perhaps the meeting between God and Freud will produce new spiritual strength. 

Personal Capital and Human Capital in 20th Century Italy

Human Capital

Dir.: Paolo Virzi
| 110 minutes

A real-estate agent tries to climb the social ladder, a rich woman dreams about a different life, a girl follows her passion despite the pressures around her. And then, on one snowy night, a mysterious accident interconnects the two families once. 

Rome Goes to the Cinema

La grande bellezza

Dir.: Paolo Sorrentino
| 142 minutes

Rome's nightlife king Jep Gambardella finds himself, on his 65th birthday, at a crossroad. Will he be able to clear a path through the city's hypocrisy and find his way back to his past? A brilliant and humorous portrait.

The Magic of The Taviani Brothers

Caesar Must Die

Dir.: Paolo & Vittorio Taviani
| 72 minutes

A gritty docu־drama that blurs the boundaries between art and life by acclaimed Italian directors Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. In the Rebibbia maximum security prison in Rome, inmates of all backgrounds and regional dialects are auditioning for the leads in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar