Proudly sponsored by coffee aficionados Lavazza, the 2011 edition of the festival will screen over 1000 sessions across five cities around Australia, hence creating the largest Italian Film Festival in the world. That is besides in Italy, of course.
An event of lingering passion and vbrant emotion, the 2011 edition features a compelling line-up comprising over 30 outstanding movies lovingly selected from a host of globally renowned film festivals including Sundance, Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Rome and Venice.
Highlights of the 2011 festival include: Basilicata Coast To Coast winner of Best New Director at the 2011 Italian Academy Awards; the hilarious box office hit Welcome To The South, and the incredibly witty We Have A Pope, fresh from the Offical Selection at the Cannes Film Festival, directed by and starring Nanni Moretti, amongst many, many others.
To add to this list, audiences will also be captivated by the on-screen pairing of screen legend Robert de Niro (showcasing his amazing fluent Italian) and the beautiful Monica Bellucci who dazzle side-by-side in The Ages of Love. This movie is the third installment in the wildly popular Manual of Love series.
