18th Italian Film Festival
The Italian Film Festival returns to Cascais from April 9 to 16, 2025, at the Auditorium of the Cascais Cultural Center.
In the 18th edition of what is the main event in Portugal dedicated to the seventh art and Italian culture, we celebrate the vast heritage of classic Italian cinema with a tribute to Marcello Mastroianni, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth, and we showcase the best of contemporary cinema with the presence of authors and performers who will present their most recent works. After a carefree childhood and a turbulent adolescence, the Italian Film Festival is finally coming of age with a bold and conscious program.
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Organization: Associação Il Sorpasso | Fundação D. Luís | Câmara Municipal de Cascais
SDGs: 4 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 15 | 16
August Holidays
by Paolo Virzì / Italy / 2024 / 123’
with Silvio Orlando, Sabrina Ferilli, Christian De Sica, Laura Morante
Comedy, Subtitled PT
Altiero Molino, a 26-year-old digital entrepreneur, returns to Ventotene with his model husband to
gather together the old friends of the sick father, offering him a last vacation in that place
dear. They find the island in turmoil for Sabry Mazzalupi's wedding to her
boyfriend Cesare: the clumsy young woman, became an influencer and her marriage is a
media event. Two tribes of holidaymakers, two seemingly irreconcilable Italys,
destined to meet again for a dispute, this time definitive.
Screenplay: Paolo Virzì, Francesco Bruni, Carlo Virzì
Production: Lotus Production - Leone Film Group, Rai Cinema
Distribution: Films4You
A world apart
by Riccardo Milani / Italy / 2024 / 112’
with Antonio Albanese, Virginia Raffaele, Sergio Saltarelli, Alessandra Barbonetti
Comedy, Subtitled PT
Michele Cortese, an elementary school teacher in Rome, has the opportunity to move to
small Cesidio Gentile school, in the heart of the Abruzzese Apennines National Park.
With the help of Vice Principal Agnese and the students, she overcomes her insecurities and finds
a new purpose. However, when the school is at risk of closing due to lack of enrollment,
a race against time begins to save her. A moving story of solidarity and
determination, with Antonio Albanese and Virginia Raffaele.
Screenplay: Michele Astori, Riccardo Milani
Production: Wildside, Medusa Film
Ennio, the Maestro
by Giuseppe Tornatore / Italy, Belgium, Japan / 2021 / 156'
with Ennio Morricone, Bernardo Bertolucci, Marco Bellocchio, Dario Argento, Quentin Tarantino,
Wong Kar Wai, Bruce Springsteen, John Williams, Hans Zimmer and Dulce Pontes
Documentary, Subtitled PT
Ennio, the Maestro is a profound portrait of Ennio Morricone, one of the most prolific and beloved
film composer, winner of two Oscars and author of over 500 scores
unforgettable.
Premiering at the 78th Venice Film Festival, the film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore combines a
extensive interview with testimonies from directors and musicians such as Quentin Tarantino, John
Williams and Dulce Pontes. With never-before-seen footage and film excerpts, this tribute reveals part of
of the mystery behind Morricone's genius.
Screenplay: Giuseppe Tornatore
Production: Piano B Productions, Potemkino, Gaga, Terras
Distribution: Risi Film
The Place of Work
by Michele Riondino / Italy, France / 2023 / 99’
with Michele Riondino, Elio Germano, Vanessa Scalera, Domenico Fortunato
Drama, Subtitled PT
The Workplace marks the powerful directorial debut of actor Michele Riondino, who
narrates the harsh reality of the ILVA steel mill in Taranto, his hometown. In 1997,
Caterino, a simple and rude worker, is recruited by the company to spy on colleagues and
report them. While looking for a way out of the misery of his life, he ends up finding himself trapped
in a perverse system of psychological control that forces him to confront his own
alienation and the brutality of industrial power. Winner of 5 Nastri d'Argento and 3 David di
Donatello.
Screenplay: Michele Riondino, Maurizio Braucci, based on the book "Fumo sulla città" by
Alessandro Leogrande
Production: Palomar, Bravo, BIM Productions, Paprika Films, Rai Cinema
Distribution: Risi Film
The Last Godfather
by Antonio Piazza, Fabio Grassadonia / Italy, France / 2024 / 122’
with Toni Servillo, Elio Germano, Daniela Marra, Barbora Bobulova
Drama, Subtitled PT
On the run for over thirty years, Matteo Messina Denaro was the most elusive ghost in the
Cosa Nostra. Inspired by his character, the film intertwines betrayals, sealed destinies and ambitions.
destroyed, in a noir that evokes the great Sicilian literary tradition. Toni Servillo is Palumbo, in
search for redemption, while Elio Germano plays Messina Denaro, a mafia boss
tired of war and a prisoner of his own shadow. An intense portrait that reveals the side
human and grotesque of a legendary escape. Presented in Official Competition at the Festival of
Venice.
Screenplay: Antonio Piazza, Fabio Grassadonia
Production: Indigo Film, Les Films du Losange, Rai Cinema
Distribution: Risi Film
Food for Profit - The Business of Food
by Giulia Innocenzi, Pablo D'Ambrosi / Italy / 2024 / 90'
Documentary, Subtitled PT
In the shadow of the European intensive livestock industry, billions of euros in
subsidies fund farms where animals are subjected to inhumane conditions,
in a system that leaves a trail of environmental destruction and represents a potential danger
for future pandemics. Food for Profit exposes the dark connections between the meat industry,
the political lobby and the backstage of power, painting a desolate scenario about the
consequences of unbridled production launches
