Oct. 16 – Spending a Sunday with Italian cinema in Lisbon is now possible thanks to the “Sunday at the cinema” program. Now in its sixth cycle, the event is promoted by the Italian Institute of Culture in Lisbon and the Association Il Sorpasso. The festival, which aims to disseminate Italian quality cinema in the Portuguese capital, takes place at the Teatro do Bairro on select Sundays of October and November: on Oct. 5 with they screened “La Grande Bellezza” by Paolo Sorrentino; on Oct. 19 they will screen at 7pm “La Mia Classe” by Daniel Gaglianone, a film that tells with humor, but also civic engagement, the story of a group of immigrants in the difficult process of linguistic and social integration; Pif’s “La Mafia Uccide solo d’Estate” will be screened on November 2, after winner the latest edition of “8 ½ Festival of Italian Cinema.” With this movie, the director presents a romantic comedy overlaid to a material investigation recounting the bloody Mafia wars of the 70s and 90s. The exhibition closes with “Salvo” by Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza (screening scheduled for November 16). This film received great reviews at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013 thanks to its western atmosphere of great visual impact.
