Elio Germano leads Italian contingent at 8 1/2
by Vitor Pinto
Actor Elio Germano will be the guest of honour at the second edition of the 8 1/2 Festa do Cinema Italiano, a non-competitive festival aiming to promote Italian cinema in Portugal. The cities of Lisbon and Porto will host the event from April 2-9.
Germano, who was Italy's Shooting Star of 2008, will present two of his recent films, not yet released locally: Daniele Vicari’s The Past is a Foreign Land [+see also:
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Organised by the Lisbon-based association Il Sorpasso, in co-production with Trieste's La Capella Underground, the event will also host screenwriter-director Gianni di Gregorio, whose film 2008 Venice fest title Mid-August Lunch [+see also:
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The programme also includes Alina Marazzi's documentaries We Want Roses Too [+see also:
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In parallel, the Portuguese Film Museum will host a retrospective of Sardinian cinema and FNAC a series of classic titles that includes Antonioni's The Night, Fellini's Casanova, Visconti's Death in Venice and Pasolini's The Gospel According to St. Matthew.
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