LOCATION – Italian Cultural Institute at the Embassy of Italy, Washington, D.C.

5 – 6 p.m. – Roundtable - For the Love of Cinema: Cinephilia Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Moderator: 

Mauro Resmini (Associate Professor of Italian and Cinema & Media Studies, University of Maryland)

Panelists: 

Cecilia Cenciarelli (co-director of Il Cinema Ritrovato festival and head of special projects at the Cineteca di Bologna).

Massimo Riva (Professor of Italian Studies and Modern Culture & Media, Brown University)

The roundtable is open to the public but reservation is required.

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LOCATION – University of Maryland, College Park, MD -Tawes Hall 0320.

NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT

4 p. m. - 4:15pm - Welcome and opening remarks. Introduction to the festival. 

4:15 p.m. - Screening: Blonde Venus
Directed by Josef Von Sternberg, 1932, 94'. 

5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. - Roundtable and Q&A moderated by Julie Koser (German Studies) with panelists Luka Arsenjuk (Cinema and Media Studies), Hester Baer (German Studies and Cinema and Media Studies), and Oliver Gaycken (English and Cinema and Media Studies)

6:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. - Intermission – Food will be served

7 p.m. - Screening: A Foreign Affair
Directed by Billy Wilder, 1948, 116'.

9:00 p.m. -  Closing remarks

LOCATION – AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, Silver Spring, MD

This programming is made possible thanks to the contribution of the Institute of Italian Culture of Washington

7 p.m. – Screening: Slap the Monster on Page One (Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina)
Directed by Marco Bellocchio, 1972, 87'. Italian with English subtitles.

The screening is free and open to the public but reservation is required.

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LOCATION: East Building Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

2 p.m. –  Screening: Parajanov: The Last Spring (Paradzhanov: Poslednyaya vesna)

Directed by Mikhail Vartanov, 1992, 60'. Russian/Armenian/Georgian/Ukrainian with English subtitles.

Screening: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors  (Tini zabutykh predkiv).

Directed by Sergei Parajanov, 1965, 97'. Ukrainian with English subtitles.

The screening is free and open to the public but reservation is required.

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LOCATION: AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, Silver Spring, MD

2 p.m. – Screening: Golden Eighties
Directed by Chantal Akerman, 1986, 96'. French with English subtitles

The screening is free and open to the public but reservation is required. 

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