> 2 novembre

Portogruaro VE, Congress center - Municipal villa, ore 20.30

Lunedì mattina / Lundi Matin

(2002), by Odar Iosseliani, 122'

Best Director, Cannes Film Festival 2002
by Otar Iosseliani
Cast: Jacques Bidou, Anne Kravz-Tarnavsky, Arrigo Mozzo and Dato Tarielashvili-Iosseliani. Setting: Venice. Genre: comedy. Length: 122', colour.
“A metaphor for solitude, which the characters experience even though they live in the enchanting city of Venice, of which the camera captures the usual views. After a very serious start, with little dialogue, in the main character's French village, the film turns into a shady comedy in Venice. Iossellani is noteworthy in his role as an eccentric megalomaniac and elegantly comic owner of a palazzo” P. Zanotto.

> 3 novembre

Cavallino-Treporti, località Cà Savio VE, Town Theatre, ore 20.45

Il Bivio

by Delfina Marcello, documentary, 26'

L'estate di Davide

(1999), by Carlo Mazzacurati, 92'

Cast: Stefano Campi, Patrizia Piccinini, Semsudin Mujiic, Silvana De Santis. Setting: Padua/Rovigo and the surrounding area. Genre: drama. Length:100', colour.
Davide comes from Turin to spend the holidays with his aunt and uncle in the Polesine, where his experiences and an unexpected event make him more mature.
“The Paduan Mazzacurati, who wrote the story with Claudio Piersanti goes further: it is darkened by social commentary on the relationship between this area of the North East and the 'ruin' of ex-Communist Eastern Europe. Adria is one of the settings.” P. Zanotto.

> 9 novembre

Portogruaro VE, Congress center - Municipal villa, ore 20.30

Ritratti: Luigi Meneghello

by Carlo Mazzacurati, documentary, 60'

> 10 novembre

Cavallino-Treporti, località Cà Savio VE, town Theatre, ore 20.45

Ritratti: Mario Rigoni Stern

by Carlo Mazzacurati, documentary, 60'

Il giorno del falco

(2004) by Rodolfo Bisatti, 86'

SHOWN AT "GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI", VENEZIA 2004
Cast: Stefano Cassetti, Mario Rodighiero, Mario Pigatto, Benedetta Cesqui, Giovanni Beni, Alisa Bystrova, Davi Dona', Laura Sesler, Letizia Leone. Screenplay: Rodolfo Bisatti, Maurizio Pasetti. Genre: Metaphor.
A former professor, now a journalist for a triveneto broadcasting network, investigates, together with his disenchantedoperator, a bank robbery committed by two criminals with their faces covered by masks, one representing an old man and the other a Chinese person..

> 16 novembre

Portogruaro VE, Congress center - Municipal villa, ore 20.30

La lingua del Santo

(2000), by Carlo Mazzacurati, 110'

Cast: Antonio Albanese, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Ivano Marescotti and Isabella Ferrari. Setting: Padua/Venice. Genre: comedy. Length: 110', colour.
Two friends, Antonio (Albanese) and Willy (Bentivoglio), finding themselves failures at the age of almost forty, decide to steal from the patron saint of their city.
“ The Paduan Mazzacurati has filmed in his city, with a finale that opens onto the lagoon of Venice and its sandy shelves towards the airport in contrast. He tells the story of two unfortunates in an opulent Veneto and the result is almost picturesque, interwoven with moments of poetry and shows both the 'hidden' outskirts of Padua
and the Padua around, inside and on the rooftops of the basilica.” P. Zanotto.

>17 novembre
Capodistria-Koper, Italian community "Santorio Santorio", ore 20.00

Barnabo delle montagne
(1994), by Mario Brenta, 123'

Grand Prize of the City of Trento Mountain Film Festival, 1995
By Mario Brenta, from the novel of the same name by Dino Buzzati.
Cast: Marco Pauletti, Duilio Fontana and Alessandra Milan. Setting: Belluno area/Rovigo area. Genre: drama. Length: 123', colour.
Barnabo, a twenty-one-year old who lives in the mountains, lets smugglers who have killed his commanding officer Del Colle escape, because he is afraid. He is dismissed and goes down to the plains to become a farmer. Years later he returns to the mountains and meets the smugglers.
“The Venetian Mario Brenta (who has already collaborated with Olmi) has preferred to focus on the contemplative purity of silence in communion with nature instead on the magical and paradoxical atmosphere of Buzzati's debut novel, and this becomes his style.” P. Zanotto.

> 20 novembre

Quarto d'Altino VE, Communal center, ore 20.30

Fiumi del Veneto: il Piave

by Vittorio di Giacomo, documentary, 30'

Notte Italiana

by Carlo Mazzacurati, documentary, 92'

Cast: Marco Messeri, Giulia Boschi and Mario Adorf. Setting: Padua/Rovigo area. Genre: drama. Length: 92', colour.
Entirely filmed at Ca' Venier in the Po Delta, this is the debut film of Mazzacurati, from Padua, produced by Nanni Moretti. Its “fishing valleys and chicken farms, ballroom dance halls and world of gossip form a solid, authentic set inhabited with loving intelligence by its main characters” (Fiorello Zangrando, “Il Gazzettino”, 31st August 1987).

> 21 novembre

Quarto d'Altino VE, Communal center, ore 20.30

I recuperanti

(1969) by Ermanno Olmi, 95'

First prize at the XIX Trento Mountain Film Festival, 1970.
Written by Mario Rigoni Stern and Tullio Kezich
Cast: Antonio Lunari, Andreino Carli, Alessandra Micheletto and Pietro Tolin. Setting:Vicenza area Genre: drama. Length: 95', colour.
“Olmi himself called this film a fairytale and kind of allegory. It is the story of a village on the uplands of Asiago. In order to survive, the inhabitants have to perform the dangerous job of recovering exploded or unexploded bombs from the Second World War. Olmi is scrupulously faithfully to the mountain environment and to its human and social problems.” P. Zanotto.

>28 novembre
Capodistria-Koper, Italian Community in Bertocchi, ore 20.00

Ritratti: Luigi Meneghello
by Carlo Mazzacurati,documentary, 60'

Ritratti: Mario Rigoni Stern
by Carlo Mazzacurati,documentary, 60'

> 8 dicembre

Caorle VE, Winery "Cà Corniani", ore 20.30

La grande Rogazione di Asiago
by Ivan Zogia, documentary, 20'

Un' anguilla da 300 Milioni

(1971), by Salvatore Saperi
introduces the protagonist Lino Toffolo

Cast: Senta Berger, Lino Toffolo and Ottavia Piccolo. Setting: Venice area. Genre:comedy. Length:109', colour.
“An eel fisherman named Bissa and his friend become the unwitting accessories to a fake kidnapping of a girl who, once the ransom money is obtained, kills them. However, she doesn't get the chance to enjoy her ill-gotten gains. The action all takes place in the lagoon and its shelves around Caorle, with an exhilarating character performance in dialect from Toffolo.” P. Zanotto.

> 9 dicembre

Caorle VE, Winery "Cà Corniani", ore 20.30

Ritratti: Andrea Zanzotto
by Carlo Mazzacurati,documentary, 60'

Il Toro

(1994) by Carlo Mazzacurati, 105'

Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival 1994
Roberto Citran winner of the Coppa Volpi as best supporting actor.
Cast: Diego Abatantuono, Roberto Citran, Marco Messeri, Alberto Lattuada and Marco Paolini. Setting: Rovigo area/Belluno and surrounding area. Length: 105', colour.
Two men made redundant from a farm steal Corinto, a magnificent breeding bull and leave for Hungary to earn a fortune with him. “Strong social allegory filtered through a concrete desire for survival, directed by the Paduan Mazzacurati, with a steady narrative flow and colourful characters” P. Zanotto.

>10 dicembre
S. Stino di Livenza VE, Romano Pascutto Theatre, ore 17.00

1917 - 1918. Occupazione del Friuli e del Veneto Orientale
by Gabriele Coassin, documentary, 21'

Signore e Signori
(1965) by Pietro Germi, 120'

Cast: Virna Lisi, Gastone Moschin, Alberto Lionello and Olga Villi. Setting: Treviso. Genre: comedy. Length: 120', black and white.
Characters from the lower-middle and middle classes in towns of the Veneto, in three separate stories that end up being linked. “Paradox, irony and well-focused mockery of the Veneto in the Seventies. Germi has tried to make Treviso anonymous, hiding the car number plates, in an attempt to lighten his satire on a single geographical region (however, the constant use of dialect and its inflexions give the game away). The setting is extremely recognisable(…). A highly distinguished cast. Many of the actors are from the Veneto, as is Luciano Vincenzoni, the author and co-scriptwriter.” P. Zanotto.

>17 dicembre
S. Stino di Livenza VE, Romano Pascutto Theatre, ore 17.00

Il pioppeto e il sogno
by Franco Greco, documentary, 33'

Il prete bello
(1989) by Carlo Mazzacurati, 92'

From the novel of the same name by Goffredo Parise
Cast: Massimo Santella, Davide Torsello and Roberto Citran. Setting: Vicenza/Venice. Genre: dramatic comedy. Length: 92', colour.
Winter 1939: a young, handsome and impulsive parish priest (Citran) is the subject of a scandal involving a prostitute. “Parise's pages are delicately and introspectively portrayed and the Vicenza of the past is well-constructed. Venice makes a brief appearance at the end” P. Zanotto.

>18 dicembre
Pellestrina VE, ex-cinema Perla, ore 20.30

Pellestrina e il suo merletto
by Angelo Bucci, documentary, 30'

Rosa e Cornelia (2000)
by Giorgio Treves, 90'

From the theatre play L'attesa by Remo Binosi
Cast: Stefania Rocca, Chiara Muti, Athina Cenci and Massimo Poggio. Setting: Venice/Treviso area/Vicenza area. Genre: drama. Length: 90', colour.
Venice 1748: Cornelia (Muti) is a young aristocrat enclosed in a villa by her parents because she is pregnant by a nobleman who is not her fiancé. Rosa (Rocca) her maid is also with child. A strong complicity grows between the two, but Cornelia's parents have determined a secret destiny for her.

>19 dicembre
Pellestrina VE, ex-cinema Perla ore 20.30

Ossessione (1943)
by Lucchino Visconti, 135'

Inspired by the novel The Postman Always Rings Twice by James Cain
Cast. Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Juan de Landa and Elio Marcuzzo. Setting: Rovigo area. Genre: drama. Length: 135', black and white.
Valle Padana: Gino, a vagabond, seduces and falls in love with the wife of a landlord. The two simulate a murder that the police don't believe. Both leading characters meet a tragic end “Cain's novel is only a pretext for Visconti,
here in his debut film. He uses it to bring the sub-proletariat to the screen for the first time and sets his story on the border between the Provinces of Ferrara and Rovigo. Bragagna's osteria is in the Polesella area and the film was shot in Occhiobello and Canaro. Comacchio is also in the film and the landscape assumes a symbolic value, as do the characters. It is the representation of an unseen Italy anti-heroic, pessimistic and disliked by the Fascist regime, which blocked its distribution. The film, with its sympathetic aestheticism, became a kind of stand-bearer for Neo-Realism in the immediate post-war period.” P. Zanotto.