THE GIRL IN THE FOG (Italy)

  DFS members were given access to this film on 4/18/2020.  GIRL IN THE FOG – Italy – 128 min – Crime/Mystery On her way to church in the hazy alpine village of Avechot, the quiet 15-year-old, Anna Lou, daughter of a religious couple, vanishes into thin air,...

THE INVISIBLE WITNESS (Italy)

Adriano wakes up in a hotel room next to the dead body of his lover, Laura.  The door is locked from the inside and there is no evidence of anybody else in the room.  Despite he claims his innocence, the man is charged with murder and chooses Virginia Ferrara, a...

IMPERFECT AGE (Italy)

WEST COAST PREMIERE Camilla is a seventeen year old who has the dream of becoming a dancer, despite her mother’s concerns.  One day in dance she meets Sara, an aspiring dancer like her, and her life will never be the same. Director: Ulisse Lendaro Writer: Cosimo...

MAGNIFICA PRESENZA / A MAGNIFICENT HAUNTING (Italy)

WEST COAST PREMIERE Twenty eight year old Pietro, a lonely soul who works night-shifts in a bakery, has just moved to Rome into a beautiful and crucially low rent apartment. He soon starts noticing objects have been moved and strange noises are coming from empty...

A PERFECT LIFE / LA VITA FACILE (Italy)

West Coast Premiere – One Time Screening Luca Manzi, an Italian doctor who has abandoned life in Rome to work in a ramshackle hospital in rural Kenya, is surprised to hear that his life-long friend Mario Tirelli is coming to Kenya and assist him with the...

SHUN LI & THE POET (Italy)

Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Shun Li, a young Chinese immigrant, leaves her job in a textile factory near Rome for a small town along the Venetian lagoon.  She’s driven by one burning desire – to somehow get her papers and bring her young son from...