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SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL 2024

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2024 adds a further step in the multi-year collaboration between the Italian Cultural Institute and the Sydney Film Festival which, as its artistic director Nashen Moodley underlined during the presentation of the program of this 71st edition, has now acquired a stable international resonance and has become one of the most prestigious events among the global cinema festivals.

 

For the 2024 edition, to be held in various cinemas in the city, the Institute will collaborate with the Festival by promoting the screenings of the only Italian feature film present at the event, There’s still tomorrow – (C’è ancora domani – P. Cortellesi, 2023), a movie that broke all box office sales records in Italy and is included among the films in the Festival competition.

 

There’s Still Tomorrow is a 2023 film written, directed and starring Paola Cortellesi, making her debut as a director. The film was presented at the 18th edition of the Rome Film Festival, where it was awarded the special jury prize and a special mention as best first film. It was then awarded as Film of the Year at the 2024 Nastri d’argento, and obtained 19 nominations and six awards at the David di Donatello, making it the debut work with the highest number of nominations in the history of the award. The film was appreciated by Italian and foreign critics for both the direction and acting performances, as well as for addressing issues related to patriarchal culture, gender violence and women’s rights.

Rome, May 1946. The city is occupied, like the rest of Italy after the defeat and tragic devastation left by the Second World War; furthermore, the Constitutional referendum and the election of the Constituent Assembly on 2 and 3 June are imminent. Delia is married to Ivano, a brutal and abusive husband who beats and humiliates her on a daily basis. The couple have three children. The eldest daughter, Marcella, close to getting engaged, despises her mother for the passivity with which she suffers marital abuse. Delia’s day is divided between household chores and various underpaid jobs, in particular one in which a young boy, although a simple apprentice, receives a higher pay simply because he is a man. The only sources of relief are the friendship with Marisa, a witty and optimistic greengrocer, and Nino, a mechanic who she was once in love with but who never proposed to her. The man urges her to go with him to the North to find better work and life opportunities. The woman also receives a mysterious letter which she initially throws away, but then decides to keep, drawing from it the strength to react to her condition.

 

There’s Still Tomorrow will be screened on Friday 7 June (8.45pm) and Saturday 8 June (11.30am) at the State Theater (Market St. Sydney) and Monday 10 June (6.15pm) at Palace Norton Street, Leichhardt.

A note should be dedicated to the French-Italian co-production Marcello mio (Christian Honoré, 2024), in competition at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival, which brings together a stellar French cast (actresses and actors playing themselves) in this delightful meta-comedy which pays tribute to the great Marcello Mastroianni

For further information and bookings: HERE