Here’s the line-up for Cork’s first ever Italian Film Festival this May
There’s a feast of top-notch Italian film planned.
New Italian Cinema Events has announced it will hold the Italian Film Festival in Ireland for the first time in its 30-year history in May, with showings in Cork and Dublin.
The Festival will kick off with a double preview launch in Dublin on May 18th before moving to the Gate Cinema in Cork from May 19th to 22nd, 2022.
Highlights will include Ennio by Giuseppe Tornatore, which explores the life of the late Maestro Ennio Morricone, and some of the best first works of talented Italian and international young directors.
The Opening Night movie is Perfect Strangers, a film which has been remade in more than 20 countries.
Here’s the line-up in full, with tickets available from The Gate:
- May 19th: Perfect Strangers, 7pm
- May 20th: Calcinculo/Swing Ride, 6pm and A Girl Returned/ L’Arminuta, 8.15pm
- May 21st: Europe/Europa, 6pm and Futura, 8.15pm
- May 22nd: The Tale of King Crab/ Re Granchio, 2.30pm, The Great Silence, 5pm and Ennio, 7.30pm
“My knowledge and enjoyment of the first in a long series of N.I.C.E. Festivals in the world began in 2010 when I had the opportunity to view a vast number of great movies, premiers and works by acclaimed directors, masterfully selected and capably organised by Viviana Del Bianco and her team,” said Italian Institute of Culture Director, Marco Gioacchini.
“Today, twelve years on, I am delighted and honoured to launch the very first N.I.C.E. Italian Film Festival Ireland in Cork, with a preview in Dublin.”
