The three Italian films will screen at the Outdoor Amphitheater with English subtitles.
Royal Film Commission – Jordan will organise the sixth edition of ‘Fare Cinema: Italian Film Days’ in collaboration with The Italian Embassy in Amman from July 3 to 5, 2023, at the Outdoor Amphitheater – First Circle – Jabal Amman.
Dry (Siccita), directed by Paolo Virzi, will screen on July 3 at 8 PM. The film won six awards including the Pasinetti Award for Best Film, the Green Drop Award – Special Mention, and the Soundtrack Stars Award for Best Soundtrack at the 2022 Venice Film Festival.
The film is set amid a protracted drought in Rome and follows a group of characters from all walks of life who are tied by a single tragic, mocking thread as each one seeks his own redemption.
The film features an ensemble cast which includes Silvio Orlando, Valerio Mastandrea, Sara Serraiocco and Monica Bellucci.
On July 4, Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s drama The Eight Mountains will screen at 8 PM in Italian with English subtitles.
The film won 11 awards, including the Jury Prize at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for the Palme d’Or for Best Film. It was also among the Official Selection at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, in addition to being nominated for 19 more awards.
The Eight Mountains (Le otto montagne) is a 2022 Italian drama film co-directed by Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch, who co-adapted the screenplay from the novel of the same name by Paolo Cognetti. The film depicts a friendship between two men who spend their childhood together in a remote Alpine village and reconnect later as adults. The title is a reference to the concept in Buddhism and ancient Indian cosmology that the world is composed of nine mountains and eight seas, specifically eight concentric circular mountain ranges separated from one another by eight seas, with the ninth and tallest mountain, Mount Meru, at the centre.
Out of Tune, directed by Rocco Papaleo, will screen on July 5 at 8 PM. The film was nominated for the Silver Ribbon Award for Best Actress in a Comedy, at the 2023 Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists.
The film follows the life of Orlando, a piano tuner, who is tormented by continuous back pain, but changes when he meets Olga, a charming physiotherapist who diagnoses him with an “emotional contracture” and asks him to bring her a picture of him when he was younger so that she’s able to see his change of posture and solve the problem. The unusual request will prompt Orlando to go back to his birthplace and will make him live again the events that brought him to be the lonely and “contracted” man he is now.
