Enjoy nine recent Italian films and one program of short films at the 2023 Italian Film Festival USA of Portland. Films will be shown in
Italian with English subtitles at Fifth Avenue Cinema, 510 SW Hall Street.
Movies shown:
TOMORROW’S A NEW DAY (Director, Simone Spada, Drama/Comedy, 2019, 100 min.)
Saturday, April 15 • 7:00 p.m. ♦ 5th Avenue Cinema
Giuliano and Tommaso have been friends for more than thirty years, but the next four days will be the hardest
they’ve ever known. Tommaso returns to Rome to help Giuliano who is ill and worried about the future of his
dearest companion, Pato, a wide-eyed Bernese mountain dog.
NEVIA (Director, Nunzia De Stefano, Drama, 2019, 86 min.)
Saturday, April 15 • 9:00 p.m. ♦ 5th Avenue Cinema
Nevia is seventeen, too grown up before she's even had the chance to be a child. Tiny and naive, but stubborn,
she and her sister Enza are being raised by their grandmother in a container park in Ponticelli.
L’IMMENSITÀ (Director, Emanuele Crialese Cerasuolo, Drama, 2022, 94 min.)
Sunday, April 16 • 4:00 p.m. ♦ 5th Avenue Cinema
Rome, 1970s. Clara and Felice have just moved into a new apartment despite their marriage being over. Their
eldest child, Adriana, has just turned twelve and rejects her name, her identity, and wants to convince everyone
that she is a boy. Her obstinacy brings the already fragile family balance to the breaking point.
THE INVISIBLE WITNESS (Director, Stefano Mordini, Drama, 2018, 102 min.)
Sunday, April 16 • 6:00 p.m. ♦ 5th Avenue Cinema
Adriano, a rich industrialist, is charged with murder. He chooses Virginia Ferrara, a veteran attorney who has
never lost a case, to decide the defense strategy. With no alternative, he is forced to tell the full truth to the
lawyer. Will he be freed?