Come spend an evening in Italy! Enjoy the local premieres of three recent, critically-acclaimed Italian films at the 2025 Italian Film Festival USA of Memphis. Films shown in Italian with English subtitles at the University Center Theatre on the campus of the University of Memphis and the Dixon Gallery and Garden’s Winegardner Auditorium. Sponsored by the University of Memphis. National Sponsor: Your Italian Passport.

Schedule:

Thursday, April 3, 2025

7:00pm: The Time It Takes: Il Tempo Che Ci Vuole

Director, Francesca Comencini, Drama, 2024, 110 min.

During the 1970s, a filmmaker immerses his daughter in the magic of cinema, where chaos meets fantasy. The father is Luigi Comencini, the famous film director, who is on the set of his film Pinocchio; the daughter is his third child, Francesca, who is determined to become a director herself. A deep bond is created that will sustain them through good and bad.

Saturday, April 5, 2025

7:00pm: A World Apart: Un Mondo A Parte

Director, Riccardo Milani, Comedy, 2024, 112 min.

After years of teaching in Rome, primary schoolteacher Michele Cortese moves to an idyllic village in the heart of the Abruzzo National Park to teach at a small school with only a handful of students. But unwelcome news arrives: the school has failed to meet its student enrollment quota for the next year and will be forced to close. Thus begins a race against time to save the school…whatever it takes!

Thursday, April 17, 2025

6:00pm: There’s Still Tomorrow: C’E Ancora Domani

Director, Paola Cortellesi, Drama, 2023, 118 min.

In post-war Rome, Delia is resigned to her traditional role of wife and mother. Her husband is the undisputed master of the family. Delia sees her daughter’s engagement as a chance for Marcella to avoid the same fate. Everything suddenly changes when a mysterious letter arrives and fires up Delia’s courage to wish for a better life, and not only for herself. One of the top box-office hits in Italian cinema!

Date: April 3, 2025 - April 17, 2025

Location: Various Venue in Memphis, TN

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