The Italian Institute of Culture in Sydney renews its collaboration with the Sydney Film Festival, in its 68th edition this year. It is the main event of its kind in Australia, and one of the most prestigious showcases of the sector in the world. Over the years, in its collaboration with the Festival, the Institute has taken effective steps to ensure that Italian films are well represented in the annual program, and has brought many Italian guests to the event: directors, actors and other important contributors to the creative process, in a spirit of international cooperation also intended to foster the realization of possible cinematic co-productions.<\/p>\n
The 2021 edition of the Festival was inaugurated on November 3 and will continue until November 14. Three Italian movies are included in the program, in particular, the latest masterpiece by Paolo Sorrentino \u201cE\u2019 stata la mano di Dio\u201d (The Hand of God), the story of a boy in the tumultuous Naples of the 1980s. It is an autobiographical portrait of the director\u2019s youth before the world of cinema drew him to Rome and competed for the Gold Lion at the 78th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize and where the star, Filippo Scotti won the Marcello Mastroianni Award. The movie will also represent Italy in the selection for the best international film at the Oscars (the nominations will be finally announced on February 8, 2022).<\/p>\n
The other two movies are \u201cA black Jesus\u201d by Luca Lucchesi, an exploration of the source of the fear and prejudice against “the other\u201d in a village in Southern Italy, and \u201cNowhere special\u201d by Uberto Pasolini, based on the true story of a man who, in the face of tragedy, discovers that the only reason he can find to go on living is to give the happiest possible future to his three-year-old son.<\/p>\n