Enjoy the local premieres of two recent Italian films and a program of short films at the 2025 Italian Film Festival USA of Chicago. All films shown in Italian with English subtitles. In collaboration with the University of Chicago and Northbrook Public Library. Sponsored by Your Italian Passport.

Film Schedule:

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

3:30 pm: Short Film Program

Seven recent films—L'acquario, Nina, Love and Chewing Gum, Ronzio, Il taglio di Jonas, Superbi and Il Giardino delle Delizie—are in competition for your vote for best short film. Each short is preceded by a director video.

Location: Cobb Lecture Hall 302, University of Chicago

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

7:00 pm: Liliana

Director, Ruggero Gabbai, Documentary, 2024, 97 min.

Liliana Segre retraces her extraordinary life story, from her arrest , deportation at the age of thirteen from Milan to Auschwitz and poignant final farewell to her father, to her nomination to Senator for life by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella in 2018.

Location: Northbrook Public Library Auditorium

Thursday, May 8, 2025

7:00 pm: My Killer Buddy

Director, Gianluca Santoni, Drama, 2024, 99 min.

Denni is a ten-year-old boy who is on a mission: to save his mother from his father's physical abuse. He is too small to do it alone, so he decides to hire a professional hit man and chooses Secco, who is not a criminal at all, but a harmless unemployed father-to-be in need of money.

Location: Northbrook Public Library Auditorium

Fest Date: April 15, 16 & May 8, 2025

Locations:
Northbrook Public Library - 1201 Cedar Lane Northbrook, IL 60062
Cobb Lecture Hall 302, University of Chicago, 5811 S. Ellis Ave. Chicago, IL 60637

Admission: Free

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