Paola Cortellesi’s “We still have tomorrow”, one of the biggest box office hits of 2023 in Italy, opens the Italian Film Festival in Lisbon today.
According to the organization, the film, the first feature directed by actress Paola Cortellesi, will be screened in the three theatres of the São Jorge cinema, which have already sold out.
“We still have tomorrow” pays “tribute to the extraordinary achievements of many ordinary women who, without suspecting it, have contributed to building a more equal society” and will be released in Portugal on May 9.
The Italian Film Festival, presented as “the most important event in Portugal dedicated to Italian culture”, will run until April 21 in Lisbon, but the program will extend until June to more than 15 Portuguese cities, such as Almada, Alverca, Barreiro, Beja, Funchal, Leiria, Loulé and Sardoal.
This year’s guests include actress and director Jasmine Trinca to present “La Nouvelle Femme” by Léa Todorov, in which she plays the pedagogue Maria Montessori, and the series “La Storia” by Francesca Archibugi.
Actor Riccardo Scamarcio will also be passing through Lisbon for the film “The Shadow of Caravaggio”, directed by Michele Placido, in which he plays the role of the Italian painter.
Eduardo de Angelis’ “Comandante”, which opened the Venice Film Festival in 2023, is also among the choices of the Italian Film Festival, and the screening will feature screenwriter and author Sandro Veronesi.
The Italian Film Festival will also be associated with the 50th anniversary of the April 25, 1974 revolution and mark another April 25, the one that in Italy is considered the day of the end of the Nazi occupation in 1945.
The Cinemateca Portuguesa is hosting 11 Italian works, which “aim to reflect on Italy’s democratic achievements and celebrate the values of freedom and resistance”.
The program of the 17th Italian Film Festival ends in Lisbon with the film “Confidenza”, by Daniele Luchetti, based on a work by the author Domenico Starnone.
