The Italian Cultural Institute of Pretoria in Collaboration with Cinecittà, the Embassy of Italy in Pretoria, the Consulate General of Italy in Johannesburg and the Consulate of Italy in Cape Town present 7 award-winning Italian movies that can be watched online, free of charge, from South Africa, upon registration. The number of guests is limited to 300 per movie.
7 Award-winning Movies for you.
Introductions
Watch the introductions from the Ambassador of Italy in South Africa: Paolo Cuculi, and some of the directors of these amazing movies.
The Ambassador of Italy in South Africa: Paolo Cuculi.
Casey Kauffman, one of the directors of Californie
Edoardo Leo, director of Breaking Up in Rome
Hleb Papou, director of The Legionnaire
Jonas Carpignano, director of A Chiara
Mauro Mancini, director of Thou Shalt Not Hate
The Movies
A Chiara
directed by Jonas Carpignano
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy/France
Year: 2021
Film run: 98′
The Guerrasio family and their friends gather to celebrate Claudio and Carmela’s oldest daughter’s 18th birthday. There is a healthy rivalry between the birthday girl and her 16-year-old sister Chiara, as they compete on the dancefloor. It is a happy occasion, and the close-knit family is in top form. However, everything changes the next day when Claudio disappears. Chiara starts to investigate; as she gets closer to the truth, she is forced to decide what kind of future she wants for herself.
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America Latina
directed by Damiano D’Innocenzo, Fabio D’Innocenzo
Genre: Thriller
Country: Italy
Year: 2021
Film run: 90′
Latina: marshes, reclaimed land, disused nuclear power plants, moisture. Massimo Sisti is the proprietor of a dental surgery that bears his name.
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Lasciarsi un giorno a Roma
Breaking Up in Rome
directed by Edoardo Leo
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy/Spain
Year: 2021
Film run: 116′
How hard is it to break up a ten-year relationship? What if you ended up writing a letter to the problem page of your favourite magazine? And what if that letter landed on the desk of the same person you are trying to break up with?
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Californie
directed by Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Year: 2021
Film run: 81′
Jamila is an exuberant Moroccan girl with street smarts, who seems to have enormous potential to achieve great things or else trigger mega-disasters.
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Il legionario
The Legionnaire
directed by Hleb Papou
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy-France
Year: 2021
Film run: 81′
Daniel, a cop among occupiers or an occupier among cops, must choose: remain faithful to his police corp or save his family from eviction.
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Non odiare
Thou Shalt Not Hate
directed by Mauro Mancini
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy-Poland
Year: 2020
Film run: 96′
The son of a Holocaust survivor begins to doubt his actions of refusing to help a victim of an accident that he encountered on his way home from work.
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I predatori
The Predators
directed by Pietro Castellitto
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Year: 2020
Film run: 109′
I predatori is a 2020 Italian comedy-drama film by Pietro Castellitto. The film received the Best Screenplay Award at the Horizons section of the 77th Venice International Film Festival, where it.
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Register to watch the movies
Registration
To watch the movies is free of charge but requires registration.
- The movies can be watched online during the Italian Cinema Week: 29 August – 4 September 2022
- Once you register you’ll be notified via e-mail, before the Italian Cinema Week, when we’ll send you the links to choose your “virtual seats” for the movies you want to watch
- One registration per person is necessary.
- There is a limit of 300 users per movie and they will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.
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