For our followers in British Columbia who love Italian cinema, the 2021 edition of the Victoria Film Festival brings two Italian features to its BC audiences: Big North and Kidz.
Films available Friday, February 5
12:00PM PST
NOTE: The festival films are available only in British Columbia.
Presented by the Victoria Film Festival with the support of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto and the Consulate General of Italy in Vancouver
BIG NORTH
Il Grande Nord
Paolo Cognetti, a 40-year-old Italian and award-winning author, embarks on a journey in the footsteps of those writers who helped influence and inspire his career as a storyteller. Amongst his beloved masters are Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Henry David Thoreau, Raymond Carver, and Alice Munro.
Paolo’s trip takes him through British Columbia, the Yukon, and Alaska, where he explores the relationship between humankind and wilderness. He meets the people currently living in the woods and explores the origins and controversies of their choices. His lifelong adventure comes to an end on Alaska’s Stampede Trail, where Chris McCandless (who inspired the story of Into The Wild) ended his lifelong spiritual search and journey.
Big North is a philosophical and visually stunning road-trip documentary that will let you explore this part of the world (a lot of it filmed in BC) with a fresh (and slightly Italian) perspective.
Director: Dario Scocella
Italy | 2020 | 80 min
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KIDZ
Figli
Voted the funniest Italian film of the year by the Syndicate of Italian Journalists, KIDZ is a sharp, knockout comedy about the pressures of child-rearing in an uncertain economic time.
Sara (Paola Cortellesi) and Nicola (Valerio Mastandrea) are married and in love. Their lives seem to be perfect: they have an angelic six-year-old daughter, thriving careers and a stable marriage. The balance in their lives is disrupted, however, by the arrival of their second child.
Sleepless nights, selfish grandparents, friends that are about to have a nervous breakdown and questionable babysitters, all combine to transform the couple’s life into a living hell.
KIDZ is a playful and uproarious comedy that constantly pulls the rug out from under you.
The audience immediately relates to the situation, whether you have one or more children or none, in fact, because at its core, it’s about how we manage the unavoidable ups and downs of life.
Director: Giuseppe Bonito
Italy | 2020 | 97 min
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