BILLY Saturday, April 6 • 7:00 pm • BC Stokes Hall Auditorium S195 (Director, Emilia Mazzacurati, Comedy, 2023, 97 min.) Film Sponsor: Consulate General of Italy in Boston Billy was a child prodigy who invented and hosted a successful music podcast at nine years old. He is now nineteen, lives with his eccentric mother, is secretly in love with a girl and doesn't know what to do with his life. A meeting with his childhood idol, a rocker who has been missing for years, will lead him to find a new way to face the future. But what we desire so much doesn't always go as we would like!
PALAZZINA LAF Wednesday, April 10 • 7:00 pm • BU Law School Auditorium ♦ Special appearance by director Michele Riondino ♦ (Director, Michele Riondino, Drama, 2023, 99 min.) Film Sponsor: Boston University Center for the Humanities Caterino works at the steel mill in Taranto. Company management decides to eliminate problem employees and asks him to spy on coworkers who are then assigned to the LAF building. Not understanding the situation, Caterino asks to be placed in the LAF building. But what really goes on there? Based on a true story.
THANK YOU GUYS • GRAZIE RAGAZZI Saturday, April 20 • 1:00 pm • Cinema Salem (Director, Riccardo Milani, Comedy, 2022, 117 min.) Film Sponsor: Comitato degli italiani all’estero Boston Antonio, a passionate but often unemployed actor, takes a job as a teacher for a drama class in a Rome penitentiary. Hesitant at first, he discovers talent in the unlikely company of prisoners and this rekindles his passion for live theatre. He manages to convince the prison warden to stage Samuel Beckett's famous play Waiting for Godot in an actual theater. Will a triumphal tour begin?
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