Italian Film Festival

In 2024, the Italian Film Festival (Festa do Cinema Italiano) is back with a program that showcases the most recent Italian productions, but also emblematic films that have marked the history of cinema. The Festival also promotes Italian culture through a series of parallel events that include music, literature, art and gastronomy.

The opening film is C’è ancora domani (We Still Have Tomorrow), by Paola Cortellesi, actress and presenter who makes her directorial debut with a story set in the post-war period and which addresses the role of women in society. The closing film is Confidenza, by Daniele Luchetti, based on the book of the same name by Domenico Starnone. Also worth mentioning is Comandante, by Edoardo De Angelis, a film that opened the last edition of the Venice Film Festival and which portrays the true and controversial story of a submarine commander during Mussolini’s fascism.

There will be the retrospective The Other April 25 / L’altro 25 Aprile, at Cinemateca, which celebrates April 25, 1945, the date on which Mussolini’s fascism and the Nazi occupation ended. And the cycle Without Censorship – Successes of Italian Cinema after April 25, which brings together some of the Italian films that were successful in the second half of the 70s in Portugal, like Brutti, sporchi e cattivi, by Ettore Scola or Allonsanfàn, by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, scheduled at Turim and Cinema Fernando Lopes.

Side events include La Trionferà concert, with songs and readings by Massimo Zamboni and guests. The usual Rota dos Sabores suggests a route with the places where Italians living in Lisbon like to eat, revealing the best of Italian gastronomy in the capital.

Full schedule here.

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