2011 Films & Events
It's the fifth annual San Diego Italian Film Festival, October 29 through November 12, 2011 with 15 great Italian movies, fabulous celebrations, famous directors and dynamic discussions.
This year you’ll find movies that put you right into the heart of Italy: funny, sad, ferocious and passionate. See director Paolo Virzi’s award winning 2010 film La prima bella cosa (The First Beautiful Thing), some stunning noir films like La ragazza del lago (The Girl by the Lake) or take in the retrospective of groundbreaking neorealism films by a trio of Italy’s greatest directors. Insightful introductions will help you understand why these films still influence movie-making today. Two weeks of Italy for you – with Italy and Italian culture beside you.
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Italy at 150 Years
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Italian Unification, the SDIFF focuses on movies which explore themes of patriotism and regionalism, and the tension between them. Unification rode waves of optimism for the new state and misery for the problems that went unheeded.
With this historical commemoration, the SDIFF will look at how filmmakers told stories about those turbulent times and their enduring consequences. Join us for this exploration – through films and discussion.
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We have no scheduled films. Come back soon!
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The San Diego Italian Film Festival (SDIFF) has an ambitious goal: To make San Diego a high spot for Italian culture. Italy gives the world culture, and we want to share that culture through the movies we bring directly from Italy – great, award-winning, recent (with English subtitles), all with interesting stories of relationships, love, hate, work, food, identity, all the passions of life.
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SDIFF SPONSORS
- Italian Cultural Center
- Linnie Cooper Foundation
- The June & Mark Fabiani Family
- The Janice & Victor Laruccia Family
- The Italian program and the Department of European Studies at San Diego State University
- The Italian Program, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
- >Richard DePhilippis
- Villa Capri – Caterer To The Festival
- House Of Italy
- Don & Maria Santamaria
- The Mary & Guiseppe Annino Family
- Karen Valentino Family
- Italians in Movies
- Alfred Antonicelli Family
- Robert deRose (dedication to his father)
- Penny Insurance
- Cultural Italy
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