Italian Film Festival USA

20th Edition

where:	Boulder, Detroit, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Boston, Chicago, Portland, Memphis, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Phoenix, Milwaukee
when:	April 3^rd - 28^th, 2024
address:	9475 Mackenzie St. Louis, MO 63123 USA
tel:	+1 314 422 3102
email:	info@italianfilmfests.org
website:	www.italianfilmfests.org
deadline:	January 31st, 2024
entry form:	Submission at Filmfreeway.com

The Italian Film Festival USA is organized by the Italian Film Festival of St. Louis, a non-profit organization promoting Italian culture in the US by showing Italian movies.
The Festival is an annual event and the films are are local premieres in St. Louis and 14 other cities. Movies screened during the Festival are rated by the audience and, at the conclusion of the festival, one film receives the Best Feature Film award.

participations

2024	Billy by Emilia Mazzacurati A Brighter Tomorrow by Nanni Moretti Cattiva coscienza by Davide Minnella Cento domeniche by Antonio Albanese La chimera by Alice Rohrwacher Eternal Rest by Giuseppe Sangiorgi: Short Film Program I fratelli De Filippo by Sergio Rubini The girl from tomorrow by Marta Savina Kidnapped by Marco Bellocchio Laf by Michele Riondino Lost Traces by Gianluca Gloria: Short Film Program Massimo Troisi: somebody down there likes me by Mario Martone Orlando by Daniele Vicari Perfect Strangers by Paolo Genovese Romeo is Juliet by Giovanni Veronesi Salvatore - Shoemaker of Dreams by Luca Guadagnino The sea that moves things by Lorenzo Marinelli: Short Film Program Thank you guys by Riccardo Milani Winter lemons by Caterina Carone Zamora by Neri Marcorè
2023	Aspromonte. Land of the Forgotten by Mimmo Calopresti Bene ma non benissimo by Francesco Mandelli The Champion by Leonardo D'Agostini Don't Stop me Now by Riccardo Milani L'immensità by Emanuele Crialese The Innocents of Florence by David Battistella The Invisible Witness by Stefano Mordini Looney Foodz! by Paolo Gaudio: Children's Program Never too late for love by Gianni Di Gregorio Nevia by Nunzia De Stefano Nostalgia by Mario Martone Olly Olly Oxen Free by Valerio Filardo: Shorts Paradise by Davide Del Degan The Passion of Anna Magnani by Enrico Cerasuolo Tomorrow's A New Day by Simone Spada
2022	3/19 by Silvio Soldini: IFFUSA@Home Spring Edition Closing Time by Tommaso Santambrogio: Short Film Program Doctor on Call by Guido Chiesa: IFFUSA@Home Spring Edition Una Femmina - The Code of Silence by Francesco Costabile: IFFUSA@Home Winter Edition Glassboy by Samuele Rossi: IFFUSA@Home Spring Edition The Hidden Child by Roberto Andò: IFFUSA@Home Spring Edition - Audience Award The Inner Cage by Leonardo Di Costanzo: IFFUSA@Home Spring Edition An Italian gourmet crime story by Davide Minnella: IFFUSA@Home Winter Edition Mancino naturale by Salvatore Allocca: IFFUSA@Home Winter Edition A New Perspective by Emanuela Ponzano: Short Film Program - Best Short Spring Edition L'ombra del giorno by Giuseppe Piccioni: IFFUSA@Home Winter Edition - Audience Award Ordinary Happiness by Daniele Luchetti: IFFUSA@Home Spring Edition The Perfect Photograph by Eleonora Mozzi: Short Film Program Settembre by Giulia Louise Steigerwalt: IFFUSA@Home Winter Edition Thou Shalt Not Hate by Mauro Mancini: IFFUSA@Home Spring Edition
2021	Agalma by Doriana Monaco: IFFUSA@Home Autumn Edition The Big Step by Antonio Padovan: IFFUSA@Home Autumn Edition Child Love by Giulio Donato: IFFUSA@Home Winter Edition Everything's Gonna Be Alright by Francesco Bruni: IFFUSA@Home Winter Edition Gas station by Olga Torrico: IFFUSA@Home Autumn Edition The Great Silence by Alessandro Gassmann: IFFUSA@Home Autumn Edition Ignorance is Bliss by Massimiliano Bruno: IFFUSA@Home Winter Edition None Like Us by Volfango De Biasi: IFFUSA@Home Winter Edition Only the living can die by Alberto Rizzi: IFFUSA@Home Winter Edition Our Ghosts by Alessandro Capitani: IFFUSA@Home Autumn Edition Rione Sanità. La certezza dei sogni by Massimo Ferrari: IFFUSA@Home Winter Edition The Sad Life of Magician by Francesco d’Antonio: IFFUSA@Home Autumn Edition The School Trip by Salvatore Allocca: IFFUSA@Home Autumn Edition Solitaire by Edoardo Natoli: IFFUSA@Home Winter Edition Verdiana by Elena Beatrice, Daniele Lince: IFFUSA@Home Winter Edition - Best Short Film Winter Edition Welcome Venice by Andrea Segre: IFFUSA@Home Autumn Edition When Mom is Away by Alessandro Genovesi: IFFUSA@Home Autumn Edition When mom is away... with the family by Alessandro Genovesi: IFFUSA@Home Autumn Edition - Audience Award - Autumn Edition
2020	The Beautifulest Party by Hedy Krissane: IFFUSA@Home - Short Film Program Citizenzs of the World by Gianni Di Gregorio: IFFUSA@Home Da Teletorre19 è tutto! by Vito Palmieri: Shorts at Home The Goddess of Fortune by Ferzan Ozpetek: IFFUSA@Home - Audience Award - Autumn Edition I hate Summer by Massimo Venier: IFFUSA@Home Kidz by Giuseppe Bonito: IFFUSA@Home The Last movie painter by Walter Bencini: IFFUSA@Home Let me speak, i am Gassman! Vittorio king of comedy by Fabrizio Corallo: IFFUSA@Home Love under house arrest by Emiliano Corapi: IFFUSA@Home The man who bought the moon by Paolo Zucca: IFFUSA@Home - Audience Award - Spring Edition The Mountain Pact by Manuele Cecconello, Maurizio Pellegrini: IFFUSA@Home Once Upon a Time... in Bethlehem by Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone: IFFUSA@Home Padrenostro by Claudio Noce: IFFUSA@Home Supereroi senza Superpoteri by Beatrice Baldacci: IFFUSA@Home - Short Film Program Welcome Back Mr. President by Giancarlo Fontana, Giuseppe Stasi: IFFUSA@Home Where I've Never Lived by Paolo Franchi: IFFUSA@Home
2019	Un amore così grande by Cristian De Mattheis As needed by Francesco Falaschi: Audience Award Balentes - The Brave Ones by Lisa Camillo Blessed Madness by Carlo Verdone Bob & Marys by Francesco Prisco Il figlio, Manuel by Dario Albertini La giornata by Pippo Mezzapesa: Short Film Program The Girl in the Fog by Donato Carrisi Just Believe by Alessandro Aronadio Let me introduce you to Sofia by Guido Chiesa Like a Cat on a Highway by Riccardo Milani Magic Alps by Andrea Brusa, Marco Scotuzzi: Short Film Program Mathera by Francesco Invernizzi, Vito Salinaro Il Mondiale in piazza by Vito Palmieri: Short Film Program - Audience Award Put Grandma in the Freezer by Giancarlo Fontana, Giuseppe Stasi Resina by Renzo Carbonera The Stolen Caravaggio by Roberto Andò Sugarlove by Laura Luchetti: Short Film Program the Vice of Hope by Edoardo De Angelis
2018	A casa mia by Mario Piredda: Short Film Program At War for Love by Pierfrancesco Diliberto aka Pif Ears by Alessandro Aronadio Easy by Andrea Magnani La fonte by Mattia Venturi: Children's Program Friends by chance by Francesco Bruni: Audience Award Funne, Sea Dreaming Girls by Katia Bernardi Holding Hands by Gianni Amelio It's all about Karma by Edoardo Falcone It's the Law by Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone The Last Prosecco by Antonio Padovan Little Italian Girls by Letizia Lamartire: Short Film Program My dog's name is Wind by Peter Marcias: Children's Program The Order of Things by Andrea Segre The Sense of Beauty by Valerio Jalongo Strollica by Peter Marcias: Children's Program Two left feet by Isabella Salvetti: Children's Program Worldly Girl by Marco Danieli
2017	An Almost Perfect Town by Massimo Gaudioso: Best Film Bellissima by Alessandro Capitani: Short Film Program Candie Boy by Arianna Del Grosso: Short Film Program Daddy's Boys by Guido Chiesa Feather by Roan Johnson Italo by Alessia Scarso The Last will be last by Massimiliano Bruno Like Crazy by Paolo Virzì On the Trail of My Father by Marco Segato The Road to Conciliation by Raffaele Brunetti, Piergiorgio Curzi The Stuff of Dreams by Gianfranco Cabiddu What's the Big Deal by Edoardo Leo Where water comes together with other water by Gianluca Mangiasciutti, Massimo Loi: Short Film Program
2016	Another South by Gianluca Maria Tavarelli I bambini sanno by Walter Veltroni Emergency Exit - Young Italians abroad by Brunella Filì God Willing by Edoardo Falcone Greenery will bloom again by Ermanno Olmi Io, Arlecchino by Matteo Bini, Giorgio Pasotti The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles by Edoardo Leo: Best Film Ma che bella sorpresa by Alessandro Genovesi Money Buddies by Daniele Ciprì Palio by Cosima Spender Wondrous Boccaccio by Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
2015	The Chair of Happiness by Carlo Mazzacurati Fasten your Seatbelts by Ferzan Ozpetek A Golden Boy by Pupi Avati How strange to be named Federico! by Ettore Scola Human Capital by Paolo Virzì: Best Film The Mafia kills only in Summer by Pierfrancesco Diliberto aka Pif The Referee by Paolo Zucca Remember me? by Rolando Ravello See You Tomorrow by Andrea Zaccariello Song 'e Napule by Marco Manetti, Antonio Manetti
2014	As White As Milk, As Red As Blood by Giacomo Campiotti Balancing Act by Ivano De Matteo The Best Offer by Giuseppe Tornatore: Best Film the Jewel by Andrea Molaioli Long Live Freedom by Roberto Andò Out of the Blue by Edoardo Leo Reality by Matteo Garrone The Red and the Blue by Giuseppe Piccioni Scattered Clouds by Saverio Di Biagio The Venice Syndrome by Andreas Pichler
2013	Benvenuti al nord by Luca Miniero The Entrepreneur by Giuliano Montaldo Escort in Love by Massimiliano Bruno The First on the List by Roan Johnson The Human Cargo by Daniele Vicari Immaturi. Il viaggio by Paolo Genovese It Was the Son by Daniele Ciprì One Day More by Massimo Venier Piazza Fontana: the Italian Conspiracy by Marco Tullio Giordana Terraferma by Emanuele Crialese: Best Film
2012	Benvenuti al sud by Luca Miniero: Best Film Easy by Francesco Bruni Immature, Generation Crash by Paolo Genovese Into paradiso by Paola Randi Kryptonite! by Ivan Cotroneo A quiet Life by Claudio Cupellini Tormenti - Film disegnato by Filiberto Scarpelli We believed by Mario Martone Weddings and other disasters by Nina di Majo
2011	The 1000 Euros Generation by Massimo Venier 18 anni dopo by Edoardo Leo: Award for Best Film Basilicata coast to coast by Rocco Papaleo The Cézanne Affair by Sergio Rubini The First Beautiful Thing by Paolo Virzì Happy Family by Gabriele Salvatores The Man Who Will Come by Giorgio Diritti Ten winters by Valerio Mieli What a Story by Gianfranco Pannone
2010	Baarìa by Giuseppe Tornatore Casomai by Alessandro D'Alatri Il figlio più piccolo by Pupi Avati The Girl by the Lake by Andrea Molaioli Many Kisses Later by Fausto Brizzi Mid-August Lunch by Gianni di Gregorio We Can Do That by Giulio Manfredonia: Best Movie
2009	At a Glance by Sergio Rubini Black Sea by Federico Bondi Giovanna’s Father by Pupi Avati Night Bus by Davide Marengo The Right Distance by Carlo Mazzacurati: Best Film The wind blows round by Giorgio Diritti
2008	Along the Ridge by Kim Rossi Stuart A Dinner for Them to Meet by Pupi Avati It's not our fault by Carlo Verdone My Brother is an Only Child by Daniele Luchetti Once you're born you can no longer hide by Marco Tullio Giordana Red like the sky by Cristiano Bortone: Best Film
2007	Come into the light by Roberto Faenza: Best Film Crime Novel by Michele Placido: In Competition Don't tell by Cristina Comencini: In Competition The fever by Alessandro D'Alatri: In Competition The Land by Sergio Rubini: In Competition My Best Enemy by Carlo Verdone: In Competition
2006	Caterina in the big city by Paolo Virzì Good morning, night by Marco Bellocchio The Hundred Steps by Marco Tullio Giordana: Best Feauture Film The life i want by Giuseppe Piccioni Manuale d'amore by Giovanni Veronesi Runaway by Andrea Manni
2005	The best of youth by Marco Tullio Giordana: Best Film The Destination by Piero Sanna A heart elsewhere by Pupi Avati