21/11/2011

The 17th edition of Verso Sud, the Italian film season taking place in Frankfurt’s Deutsches Filmmuseum from December 2-12 will open with the screening of Andrea Molaioli’s The Jewel [+see also:
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Apart from the film by Molaioli, who will be in Frankfurt to meet the audience, also to be screened are Antonio Capuano’s L'amore buio [+see also:
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interview: Stefano Incerti
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Moreover, this year the event pays tribute to Liliana Cavani, who, along with her loyal screenwriter Italo Moscati, will be in frankfurt on December 3. The exhibition dedicated to the director will open with The Night Porter; the other films scheduled are Francesco d'Assisi, Milarepa, Beyond Good and Evil, The Berlin Affair, Dove siete? Io sono qui.

And in the year of the 150th anniversary of Italy’s Unity, we couldn’t do without two films dedicated to the country’s history: Mario Martone’s We Believed [+see also:
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interview: Mario Martone
interview: Mario Martone
film profile] and Sergio Colabona’s Passannante.

(Translated from Italian)