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April 2020
San Diego Italian Film Festival Presents: Che Strano Chiamarsi Federico
The San Diego Italian Film Festival presents: Che Strano Chiamarsi Federico (How Strange To Be Named Federico) Directed by Ettore Scola | 93 minutes The film is a tribute to and a portrait of Federico Fellini, told by Ettore Scola on the twentieth anniversary of the great director’s death. Other than Fellini’s incredible cinema, what this devoted admirer of the incomparable maestro wants to commemorate are a few private and lesser-known aspects of Fellini’s personality. The film recreates their encounter…
Find out more »May 2020
San Diego Italian Film Festival Presents: Una Vita Spericolata
The San Diego Italian Film Festival presents: Una Vita Spericolata (Reckless) Directed by Marco Ponti| 102 minutes When a young mechanic deep in debt has his bank loan rejected, a series of unfortunate events turns his rejection into a robbery. Along with his best friend, a former rally champion, and a miserable teen superstar as their hostage, they start on a crazy race across Italy. With police chases, bloodshed, and money being spilled, their escape is followed on social media,…
Find out more »June 2020
San Diego Italian Film Festival Presents: Il Tuttofare
The San Diego Italian Film Festival presents: Il Tuttofare (The Handyman) Directed by Valerio Attanasio| 96 minutes Antonio is a trainee lawyer who dreams of joining his mentor’s prestigious firm. But his boss, Salvatore “Toti” Bellastella, the Prince of the Forum, is also an exploitative tyrant. He asks of Antonio all kinds of tasks: from being his assistant to his driver, from paralegal to personal cook! When Antonio brilliantly passes the bar, he receives the offer to become a partner…
Find out more »February 2021
Human Rights Watch Film Festival Presents: Through the Night (Digital Film Festival)
This film offers subtitles in English and Closed Captioning. You can select these options by clicking the ‘CC’ button in the bottom right of the player. Across the US, even before the Covid-19 pandemic, people have been working longer hours across multiple jobs just to pay the rent. This reality of non-stop work has resulted in an unexpected phenomenon: the flourishing of 24-hour daycare centers. Dee’s Tots Daycare, a home-based center in a New York suburb, has become a lifeline…
Find out more »Human Rights Watch Film Festival Presents: Missing in Brooks County (Digital Film Festival)
This film offers subtitles in English and Closed Captioning. You can select these options by clicking the ‘CC’ button in the bottom right of the player. Seventy miles north of the Mexican-US border lies Brooks County, Texas. As the national debate over immigration policy simmers to a boil, its practical consequences are felt in Brooks County every day. The site of an estimated 3000 deaths since 2008, migrants choose this route to circumvent the state’s busiest interior immigration checkpoint and…
Find out more »Human Rights Watch Film Festival Presents: Talking About Trees (Digital Film Festival)
This film offers subtitles in English and Closed Captioning. You can select these options by clicking the ‘CC’ button in the bottom right of the player. For the last 30 years in Sudan, cinema has been banned. After a military coup, cinemas were closed, filmmakers arrested and the careers of four Sudanese friends and promising filmmakers were halted before they began. The freedom to make and share films is their driving passion, and one they long to bring back to…
Find out more »Human Rights Watch Film Festival Presents: I Am Samuel (Digital Film Festival)
This film offers subtitles in English and Closed Captioning. You can select these options by clicking the ‘CC’ button in the bottom right of the player. Samuel grew up on a farm in the Kenyan countryside, where tradition is valued above all else. He moves to Nairobi in search of a new life, where he finds belonging in a community of fellow queer men where he meets and falls in love with Alex. Their love thrives even though Kenyan laws…
Find out more »Human Rights Watch Film Festival Presents: A Reckoning in Boston (Digital Film Festival)
This film offers subtitles in English and Closed Captioning. You can select these options by clicking the ‘CC’ button in the bottom right of the player. In the fall of 2014, Kafi Dixon and Carl Chandler enrolled in a rigorous night course in the humanities at a community center in their Boston neighborhood of Dorchester. Kafi, 44, sharp, witty and restless, dropped out of school at 15. She dreams of starting a land cooperative in Boston for women of color…
Find out more »September 2021
2021 FilmOut San Diego LGBTQ Film Festival
The 2021 FilmOut San Diego LGBTQ Film Festival is September 9-12, 2021. FilmOut: Enlightening, educating & entertaining through the exhibition of LGBTQ & cult films. About the Films: Friday, September 10th (See full Friday lineup) – 7:00pm – FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT Sponsored By: San Diego Pride Co-Presented By: David Reicks/Merrill Lynch BOULEVARD! A Hollywood Story, 82 minutes, Dir: Jeffrey Schwarz, USA. We welcome back filmmaker Jeffrey Schwarz (I Am Divine, Vito, Tab Hunter Confidential, and The Fabulous Allan Carr) with…
Find out more »Coming of Age Film Festival Presents: Monster Calls
Join us on September 22 for the first of five films at the Coming of Age Film Festival at the Museum of Photographic Arts. About the Film Monster Calls (2016) Written by Patrick Ness and directed by J.A. Bayona 98 minutes A young boy lives with his terminally ill mother. Experiencing bullying at school and lacking friends he becomes disruptive. The only way out is to confront the reality of death. Sometimes when you hold something dear it is too…
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