It’s l’estate in Italia, summer in Italy, so tutti al mare! Everybody to the beach…but you’d better know how to swim in these waters.
Sarebbe meglio se sapessi nuotare.
Il Compleanno di David (David’s Birthday)
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David’s birthday is complicated by a fling with his uncle. Bad judgement ruins this vacation!
Mine Vaganti (Loose Cannons)
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Ferzan Ozpetek’s charming and bittersweet comedy about not one but two sons who need to come out to the parents. “Lock up your daughters,” the dad tells everyone,”my sons friends are in town!” Stars Riccardo Scamarcio.
Short Skin – I Dolori del Giovane Edo
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As if sexuality isn’t awkward enough for teenagers, Edoardo’s embarrassing medical condition makes normal relationships with girls seem hopeless. Director Duccio Chiarini has crafted a coming of age story like no other, using phimosis, a congenital deformity of the penis as the teen’s barrier to happiness in one very life changing summer vacation.
Terraferma
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The tourists are arriving, but so are the refugees from Africa.
This Must Be The Place
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Road trips can be summer fun, but this one’s all about finding the Nazi that tortured Cheyenne’s father.
Viaggio Sola (A Five Star Life)
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So how would you like a job staying at the most fabulous hotels in the world? It’s not all that it’s cracked up to be…
Pranzo di Ferragosto (Mid-August Lunch)
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Everyone else is at the beach, but Gianni’s stuck home babysitting all the old ladies in the neighborhood.
Pane E Tulipani (Bread and Tulips)
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“What is this? Work, or vacation?”, Mimmo asks when his wife seems to have trouble finding her way back home after their summer holiday. Maybe we should all live like Rosalba, and make our lives a little more like a vacation.
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