Festa do Cinema Italiano

18th Edition

when:	April 9th - 17th, 2025
address:	Rua de São Nicolau 121, 4º 1100-548 Lisboa, Portogallo
tel:	+351 210 156 210
email:	info@festadocinemaitaliano.com
website:	festadocinemaitaliano.com/

The Festa do Cinema Italiano involves over 20 cities throughout Portugal including Lisbon, Porto, Coimbra, Funchal and the Algarve. It is the main event in Portugal dedicated to Italian cinema and culture and is supported by Cinecittà, the Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Lisbon and has the support of many Portuguese institutions and private companies such as Piaggio, Martini and Generali .
The event dedicates ample space to contemporary Italian cinema with the presentation of over 50 films including feature films, documentaries and short films, most of which are screened in national premiere.
The Festa do Cinema Italiano does not stop in Fernando Pessoa's homeland but continues on
its journey in Lusophone Africa (Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde), East Timor and Brazil for a great closing event, reaching over 40,000 spectators on four different continents.

participations

2025	Another summer holiday by Paolo Virzì: Panorama Anywhere anytime by Milad Tangshir: Competitiva - Prémio do Júri Il Boemo by Petr Václav: Ópera na tela The Boy with Pink Pants by Margherita Ferri: Panorama - Prémio do Público La chimera by Alice Rohrwacher: Seconde Visioni Diamonds by Ferzan Ozpetek: Panorama Diciannove by Giovanni Tortorici: Competitiva Diva Futura by Giulia Steigerwalt: Panorama Familia by Francesco Costabile: Competitiva Food for profit by Giulia Innocenzi: Panorama The Fourth day of School by Martina Melilli: Sombras Gloria! by Margherita Vicario: Seconde Visioni The great ambition by Andrea Segre: Panorama High stakes by Giovanni Dota: Panorama The illusion by Roberto Andò: Panorama In spirito by Nicolò Folin: Il Corto Laf by Michele Riondino: Competitiva Lubo by Giorgio Diritti: Focus Suíça Madly by Paolo Genovese: Panorama Marcello mio by Christophe Honoré: Panorama The miraculous transformation of the working class into foreigners by Samir: Focus Suíça No dogs or Italians allowed by Alain Ughetto: Focus Suíça Parthenope by Paolo Sorrentino: Seconde Visioni Paternal leave by Alissa Jung: Competitiva Real by Adele Tulli: Altre Visioni The Return by Uberto Pasolini: Panorama Salvo by Antonio Piazza, Fabio Grassadonia: Panorama Sicilian Ghost Story by Antonio Piazza, Fabio Grassadonia: Panorama Sicilian letters by Antonio Piazza, Fabio Grassadonia: Panorama The time it takes by Francesca Comencini: Panorama Vermiglio by Maura Delpero: Panorama Wishing on a star by Péter Kerekes: Altre Visioni A world apart by Riccardo Milani: Panorama
2024	Adagio by Stefano Sollima: Panorama After Work by Erik Gandini: Altre Visioni April Captains by Maria De Medeiros: Sessoes Especiais Bassifondi by Francesco Pividori aka Trash Secco: Altre Visioni Bella ciao – The story beyond the myth by Giulia Giapponesi: Sessoes Especiais The best days by Massimiliano Bruno, Edoardo Leo: Panorama Il Boemo by Petr Václav: Panorama A Brighter Tomorrow by Nanni Moretti: Panorama Especial Caravaggio’s Shadow by Michele Placido: Panorama Comandante by Edoardo De Angelis: Panorama Disco Boy by Giacomo Abbruzzese: Competitiva - Prémio do Júri para Melhor Filme Dive by Aldo Iuliano: Il Corto An endless sunday by Alain Parroni: Competitiva Enea by Pietro Castellitto: Competitiva Finally Dawn by Saverio Costanzo: Panorama Fireworks by Giuseppe Fiorello: Competitiva The First Day of My Life by Paolo Genovese: Panorama Especial Gospel according to Mary by Paolo Zucca: Panorama A Greyhound of a Girl by Enzo D'Alò: Panorama Happiness by Micaela Ramazzotti: Competitiva - Mencao Honrosa do Júri The Hummingbird by Francesca Archibugi: Panorama Especial In the mirror by Roberta Torre: Altre Visioni Io Capitano by Matteo Garrone: Panorama Especial Kidnapped by Marco Bellocchio: Panorama Kissing Gorbaciov by Andrea Paco Mariani, Luigi D’Alife: Sessoes Especiais The Last Night of Amore by Andrea di Stefano: Panorama Especial Maria Montessori by Léa Todorov: Panorama Misericordia by Emma Dante: Panorama Ohmygod! by Francesco Amato: Panorama Paolo Conte - Live at La Scala by Giorgio Testi: Sessoes Especiais El Paraíso by Enrico Maria Artale: Competitiva I peggiori giorni by Massimiliano Bruno, Edoardo Leo: Panorama Pleasure by Luca Maria Piccolo: Il Corto La primavera della mia vita by Zavvo Nicolosi: Sessoes Especiais Rainbow - A private affair by Paolo Taviani: Retrospetiva O Outro 25 de Abril Romantic Girls by Pilar Fogliati: Panorama Romeo is Juliet by Giovanni Veronesi: Panorama Les Rossignols by Juliette Saint-Sardos: Il Corto Superheroes by Paolo Genovese: Panorama Especial There's still tomorrow by Paola Cortellesi: Panorama - Prémio do Público para Melhor Filme Trust by Daniele Luchetti: Panorama The undecided groom by Giorgio Amato: Panorama We should all be futurists by Angela Norelli: Il Corto
2023	Being My Mom by Jasmine Trinca: Il Corto Breaking up in Rome by Edoardo Leo: Panorama The Crown Shyness by Valentina Bertani: Competitiva Dante by Pupi Avati: Panorama Dry by Paolo Virzì: Panorama The Eight Mountains by Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch: Panorama Fake criminals by Alessio Maria Federici: Panorama Fake criminals by Alessio Maria Federici: Panorama The Golden Door by Emanuele Crialese: Omaggio Emanuele Crialese L'immensità by Emanuele Crialese: Panorama In viaggio by Gianfranco Rosi: Panorama In viaggio by Gianfranco Rosi: Panorama Infinity. The world of Luigi Ghirri by Matteo Parisini: Sessoes Especiais Las Leonas by Isabel Achaval, Chiara Bondi: Sessoes Especiais The Lord of the Ants by Gianni Amelio: Panorama Marcel! by Jasmine Trinca: Competitiva - Prémio de Melhor Filme The March on Rome by Mark Cousins: Altre Visioni Mare Nostrum – The Nightmare by Stefania Casini: Realidade Virtual Margins by Niccolò Falsetti: Competitiva Massimo Troisi: somebody down there likes me by Mario Martone: Sessoes Especiais MaTerre VR Experience by Gianluca Abbate, Blerina Goce, Vito Foderà, Elena Zervopoulou, Giuseppe Schillaci: Realidade Virtual Mistral by Nico Bonomolo: Il Corto Montegelato by Davide Rapp: Realidade Virtual Never too late for love by Gianni Di Gregorio: Panorama No dogs or Italians allowed by Alain Ughetto: Sessoes Especiais Om Devi: Sheroes Revolution by Claudio Casale: Realidade Virtual L'ombra del giorno by Giuseppe Piccioni: Panorama - Prémio do Público One Man Up by Paolo Sorrentino: Sessoes Especiais The Prince of Rome by Edoardo Falcone: Panorama Run to you by Riccardo Milani: Panorama Scarlet by Pietro Marcello: Altre Visioni Se posso permettermi by Marco Bellocchio: Il Corto Sergio Leone - The Italian who invented America by Francesco Zippel: Sessoes Especiais Settembre by Giulia Louise Steigerwalt: Competitiva Strangeness by Roberto Andò: Panorama Thank you guys by Riccardo Milani: Panorama Umberto Eco – La biblioteca del mondo by Davide Ferrario: Sessoes Especiais Where life begins by Stéphane Freiss: Competitiva
2022	America Latina by Damiano D'Innocenzo, Fabio D'Innocenzo: Panorama Atlantide by Yuri Ancarani: Altre Visioni - Focus Yuri Ancarani Atlas by Niccolò Castelli: Competitiva Bad Poet by Gianluca Jodice: Panorama Il buco in testa by Antonio Capuano: Altre Visioni Il buco by Michelangelo Frammartino: Panorama The Challenge by Yuri Ancarani: Altre Visioni - Focus Yuri Ancarani Closing Time by Tommaso Santambrogio: Il Corto Diabolik by Marco Manetti, Antonio Manetti: Panorama Dogworld by Alessandro Celli: Competitiva Ennio by Giuseppe Tornatore: Panorama Europa by Haider Rashid: Competitiva- Prémio do Júri Una Femmina - The Code of Silence by Francesco Costabile: Competitiva Freaks vs. the Reich by Gabriele Mainetti: Panorama Futura by Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, Alice Rohrwacher: Panorama The Giants by Bonifacio Angius: Altre Visioni Girl Returned by Giuseppe Bonito: Panorama - Prémio do Público Help! My in-laws are vampires! by Volfango De Biasi: Panorama The Hidden Child by Roberto Andò: Panorama In a future April (The young Pasolini) by Francesco Costabile, Federico Savonitto: Amarcord - Pier Paolo Pasolini The Inner Cage by Leonardo Di Costanzo: Panorama Lovely Boy by Francesco Lettieri: Competitiva The Luminous View by Fabrizio Ferraro: Altre Visioni Marx Can Wait by Marco Bellocchio: Panorama Maverick Modigliani by Valeria Parisi: Sessões Especiais Napoleon. In the name of art by Giovanni Piscaglia: Sessões Especiais La Napoli di mio padre by Alessia Bottone: Il Corto The Nightwalk by Adriano Valerio: Il Corto Nowhere Special by Uberto Pasolini: Panorama On Our Watch by Pif: Panorama Pasolini prossimo nostro by Giuseppe Bertolucci: Amarcord - Pier Paolo Pasolini Pompeii. Sin City by Pappi Corsicato: Sessões Especiais The Predators by Pietro Castellitto: Extensões Promises by Amanda Sthers: Panorama Le quattro volte by Michelangelo Frammartino: Sessões Especiais Romantic Guide to Lost Places by Giorgia Farina: Panorama Romeo e Giulietta by Massimo Coppola: As Décadas do Amor Salvatore - Shoemaker of Dreams by Luca Guadagnino: Panorama Temporary Road - (una) vita di Franco Battiato by Giuseppe Pollicelli, Mario Tani: Sessões Especiais Il turno by Chiara Marotta, Loris Giuseppe Nese: Il Corto We Still Talk by Pupi Avati: Panorama Whipping Zombie by Yuri Ancarani: Altre Visioni - Focus Yuri Ancarani
2021	Amazing Leonardo by Jesus Garces Lambert: Amarcord Artemisia Gentileschi, Warrior Painter by Jordan River: Amarcord A Bookshop in Paris by Sergio Castellitto: Panorama Butterfly by Alessandro Cassigoli, Casey Kauffman: Altre Visioni Come un gatto in tangenziale - Ritorno a Coccia di Morto by Riccardo Milani: Panorama Diaz - Don't clean up this Blood by Daniele Vicari: Sessoes Especiais The disappearance of my mother by Beniamino Barrese: Altre Visioni Everything's Gonna Be Alright by Francesco Bruni: Panorama Grazia's Island by Emanuele Crialese: Amarcord Hammamet by Gianni Amelio: Panorama Hidden away by Giorgio Diritti: Panorama I hate Summer by Massimo Venier: Panorama If Only by Ginevra Elkann: Competitiva Intolerance by Giuliano Giacomelli, Lorenzo Giovenga: Il Corto The Macaluso Sisters by Emma Dante: Panorama Mafia is not what it used to be by Franco Maresco: Panorama Molecules by Andrea Segre: Altre Visioni My brother chases dinosaurs by Stefano Cipani: Sessoes Especiais My Heart Goes Boom! by Nacho Alvarez: Sessoes Especiais Nevia by Nunzia De Stefano: Competitiva Omelia Contadina by Alice Rohrwacher, JR: Il Corto Padrenostro by Claudio Noce: Panorama The Predators by Pietro Castellitto: Competitiva The Rossellinis by Alessandro Rossellini: Sessoes Especiais Small Body by Laura Samani: Competitiva - Best Film Sole by Carlo Sironi: Competitiva - Audience Award Three Floors by Nanni Moretti: Panorama Tolo Tolo by Luca Medici aka Checco Zalone: Panorama Welcome Venice by Andrea Segre: Panorama
2020	Amazing Leonardo by Jesus Garces Lambert: Sessões Especiais Bad Tales by Damiano D'Innocenzo, Fabio D'Innocenzo: Panorama Beautiful Things by Giorgio Ferrero: Distribuição The Best Years by Gabriele Muccino: Panorama The Champion by Leonardo D'Agostini: Panorama Don't Stop me Now by Riccardo Milani: Panorama Fellini of the Spirits by Anselma Dell'Olio: Amarcord The Goddess of Fortune by Ferzan Ozpetek: Panorama The Immortal by Marco D'Amore: Panorama Into the Labyrinth by Donato Carrisi: Panorama Kidz by Giuseppe Bonito: Panorama Ordinary Happiness by Daniele Luchetti: Panorama Paolo Conte. Via Con Me (It's Wonderful) by Giorgio Verdelli: Sessões Especiais Pinocchio by Matteo Garrone: Panorama Sin by Andrei Konchalovsky: Sessões Especiais A Son named Erasmus by Alberto Ferrari: Panorama When Mom is Away by Alessandro Genovesi: Panorama
2019	Achille Tarallo by Antonio Capuano: Altre Visioni Bangla by Phaim Bhuiyan: Competitiva - Prémio do Público Blessed Madness by Carlo Verdone: Panorama Boys Cry by Damiano D'Innocenzo, Fabio D'Innocenzo: Competitiva The Caiman by Nanni Moretti: Amarcord Camorra by Francesco Patierno: Altre Visioni Caravaggio – The soul and the blood by Jesus Garces Lambert: Distribuição Daughter of Mine by Laura Bispuri: Competitiva - Prémio do Júri Euforia by Valeria Golino: Panorama Frontiera by Alessandro Di Gregorio: Il Corto Futuro prossimo by Salvatore Mereu: Il Corto Gagarin, I will miss you by Domenico De Orsi: Il Corto Habemus Papam by Nanni Moretti: Amarcord I am Tempesta by Daniele Luchetti: Panorama The Invisible Witness by Stefano Mordini: Panorama Iuventa by Michele Cinque: Sessões Especiais The King's Musketeers by Giovanni Veronesi: Panorama Leo Da Vinci - Mission Mona Lisa by Sergio Manfio: Piccolini Like a Cat on a Highway by Riccardo Milani: Panorama Likemeback by Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli: Competitiva Loro by Paolo Sorrentino: Panorama Lucia's Grace by Gianni Zanasi: Panorama Made in Italy by Luciano Ligabue: Panorama Mamma + Mamma by Karole Di Tommaso: Competitiva The Man Who Stole Banksy by Marco Proserpio: Sessões Especiais Mathera by Francesco Invernizzi, Vito Salinaro: Sessões Especiais Menocchio the Heretic by Alberto Fasulo: Competitiva Mia madre by Nanni Moretti: Amarcord Michelangelo - Endless by Emanuele Imbucci: Sessões Especiais Il Mondiale in piazza by Vito Palmieri: Il Corto Naples In Veils by Ferzan Ozpetek: Panorama Notti magiche by Paolo Virzì: Panorama On My Skin by Alessio Cremonini: Panorama The Order of Things by Andrea Segre: Sessões Especiais Piranhas by Claudio Giovannesi: Panorama Poveri ma ricchissimi by Fausto Brizzi: Panorama Put Grandma in the Freezer by Giancarlo Fontana, Giuseppe Stasi: Panorama Raphael – The Lord of the Arts, 3D by Luca Viotto: Distribuição Romulus & Remus - The First King by Matteo Rovere: Panorama Santiago, Italia by Nanni Moretti: Panorama The son's room by Nanni Moretti: Amarcord The Stolen Caravaggio by Roberto Andò: Panorama Sugarlove by Laura Luchetti: Il Corto Until the end by Giovanni Dota: Il Corto the Vice of Hope by Edoardo De Angelis: Altre Visioni Wherever you are by Bonifacio Angius: Competitiva Wife & Husband by Simone Godano: Panorama
2018	Beautiful Things by Giorgio Ferrero: Altre Visioni The best of youth by Marco Tullio Giordana: Amarcord Bismillah by Alessandro Grande: Il Corto Caravaggio – The soul and the blood by Jesus Garces Lambert: Clássicos da arte italiana Cinderella the Cat by Alessandro Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri, Dario Sansone: Sessões Especiais Crater by Silvia Luzi, Luca Bellino: Altre Visioni Easy by Andrea Magnani: Competitiva Emma by Silvio Soldini: Panorama Fortunata by Sergio Castellitto: Panorama La giornata by Pippo Mezzapesa: Il Corto The Girl in the Fog by Donato Carrisi: Panorama Hannah by Andrea Pallaoro: Altre Visioni Happy Winter by Giovanni Totaro: Competitiva - Prémio do Júri Holding Hands by Gianni Amelio: Panorama I can quit whenever I want by Sydney Sibilia: Sessões Especiais I Can Quit Whenever I Want – Ad honorem by Sydney Sibilia: Sessões Especiais I Can Quit Whenever I Want – Masterclass by Sydney Sibilia: Sessões Especiais I hate Pink! by Margherita Ferri: Il Corto I'm back by Luca Miniero: Panorama the Intruder by Leonardo Di Costanzo: Panorama It's the Law by Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone: Panorama The Leisure Seeker by Paolo Virzì: Panorama Look Up by Fulvio Risuleo: Competitiva Love and Bullets by Marco Manetti, Antonio Manetti: Panorama Malamènti by Francesco Di Leva: Il Corto The Millionairs by Claudio Santamaria: Il Corto Mon amour, mon ami by Adriano Valerio: Il Corto Nico, 1988 by Susanna Nicchiarelli: Panorama Nome di donna by Marco Tullio Giordana: Panorama Pipi, Pupu & Rosemary - The Mystery of the Stolen Notes by Enzo D'Alò: Piccolini The Place by Paolo Genovese: Panorama Poveri ma ricchi by Fausto Brizzi: Panorama Pure Hearts by Roberto De Paolis: Competitiva - Prémio do Público Rainbow - A private affair by Paolo Taviani: Panorama Raphael – The Lord of the Arts, 3D by Luca Viotto: Clássicos da arte italiana Sicilian Ghost Story by Antonio Piazza, Fabio Grassadonia: Panorama Surbiles by Giovanni Columbu: Altre Visioni There Is No Place Like Home by Gabriele Muccino: Panorama Vedete, sono uno di voi by Ermanno Olmi: Sessões Especiais The War of the Yokels by Davide Barletti, Lorenzo Conte: Competitiva Where I've Never Lived by Paolo Franchi: Panorama
2017	7 Minutes by Michele Placido: Panorama Alice by Chiara Leonardi: Il corto Sic@Sic Armandino e il Madre by Valeria Golino: Il corto Garofalo At War for Love by Pierfrancesco Diliberto aka Pif: Panorama Atlante 1783 by Maria Giovanna Cicciari: Il corto Sic@Sic Colazione sull’erba by Edoardo Ferraro: Il corto Sic@Sic The Confessions by Roberto Andò: Panorama Dodici pagine by Riccardo Caruso, Roberto Tenace, Luigi Lombardi, Elisabetta Falanga: Il corto Sic@Sic Ears by Alessandro Aronadio: Competitiva Feather by Roan Johnson: Competitiva Fiore by Claudio Giovannesi: Competitiva -Prémio do Júri God Willing by Edoardo Falcone: Panorama Happy times will come soon by Alessandro Comodin: Altre Visioni I Can Quit Whenever I Want – Masterclass by Sydney Sibilia: Panorama Indivisible by Edoardo De Angelis: Panorama It was yesterday by Valentina Pedicini: Il corto Sic@Sic Italian Race by Matteo Rovere: Panorama Let yourself go! by Francesco Amato: Panorama The Marvelous Spiral by Massimo D'Anolfi, Martina Parenti: Altre Visioni My Italy by Bruno Colella: Altre Visioni Notturno by Fatima Bianchi: Il corto Sic@Sic On the Trail of My Father by Marco Segato: Competitiva One Kiss by Ivan Cotroneo: Competitiva - Prémio do Público Pagliacci by Marco Bellocchio: Il corto Sic@Sic Pawn Streets by Irene Dionisio: Altre Visioni Perfect Strangers by Paolo Genovese: Panorama Something New by Cristina Comencini: Panorama The Stuff of Dreams by Gianfranco Cabiddu: Panorama Sweet Dreams by Marco Bellocchio: Panorama Tommaso by Kim Rossi Stuart: Panorama Vanilla by Rossella Inglese: Il corto Sic@Sic What's the Big Deal by Edoardo Leo: Panorama The Wholly Family by Terry Gilliam: Il corto Garofalo Worldly Girl by Marco Danieli: Competitiva - Menção Honrosa
2016	Anna by Giuseppe Gaudino: Panorama Arianna by Carlo Lavagna: Competição Banana by Andrea Jublin: Competição The Beginners by Claudio Cupellini: Panorama Bellissima by Alessandro Capitani: Il Corto A bigger splash by Luca Guadagnino: Panorama Blood of my Blood by Marco Bellocchio: Panorama Burning Love by Alberto Caviglia: Competição Donkey flies by Marcello Fonte, Paolo Tripodi: Competição Don't be Bad by Claudio Caligari: Panorama Florence and the Uffizi Gallery 3D by Luca Viotto: Sessoes Especiais An Italian Name by Francesca Archibugi: Panorama Latin lover by Cristina Comencini: Panorama Ma che bella sorpresa by Alessandro Genovesi: Panorama Mediterranea by Jonas Carpignano: Sessões Especiais Napoli Jungle by Antonio Capuano: Sessões Especiais Pastorale Cilentana by Mario Martone: Il Corto Pinocchio by Enzo D'Alò: Piccolini Quo Vado? by Gennaro Nunziante: Panorama Ridendo e scherzando - Ritratto di un regista all'italiana by Paola Scola, Silvia Scola: Homenagem Ettore Scola Road 47 by Vicente Ferraz: Sessões Especiais SonderKommando by Nicola Ragone: Il Corto Suburra by Stefano Sollima: Panorama Tale of Tales by Matteo Garrone: Panorama They call me Jeeg by Gabriele Mainetti: Competição The Wait by Piero Messina: Competição You can't save yourself alone by Sergio Castellitto: Panorama Young Lions of Gipsy by Jonas Carpignano: Il Corto
2014	Black Beast by Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis: Il Corto Undue Debt by Andrea Segre
2013	My Destiny by Peter Marcias: Panorama

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