Aug. 29 – From September 5 to December 18 the 15th edition of the Cinema! Italy! will take place in Germany. The promotional tour is organized every year by the Made in Italy Association with the support of the Ministry of Heritage and Culture, ICE (Italian Institute for Foreign Trade), the distribution company Kairos Filmverleih, based in Göttingen, the Embassy and the Consulates and Italian Cultural Institutes in Germany. The tour will cover 29 cities, including Munich, Cologne, Lübeck , Bremen, Bonn, Leipzig, Dresden, Hannover, Kassel, Stuttgart, Freiburg , Regensburg, Essen, Heidelberg and Darmstadt, ending in Berlin. The program offers six recent feature films with subtitles in German: Bellas Mariposas by Salvatore Mereu; L’intervallo by Leonardo Di Costanzo; Reality by Matteo Garrone; Il rosso e il blu by Giuseppe Picconi; Tutti i santi giorni by Paolo Virzì; and Viva la libertà by Roberto Andò. For some events, the film directors and actors will be there to present their film. The festival’s first guest will be Roberto Andò in Hamburg, on the first days of the event. The tour follows the success of the Nuovo Cinema Italia Festival, held last June and July in Austria in Vienna, Innsbruck and Graz.
