Date: 18 – 30 March 2025
Venue: PALACE ifc/ MOViE MOVie Cityplaza/ Broadway Cinemathque/ PREMIERE ELEMENTS
Price: HK$95
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This year, the European Union Film Festival (EUFF 2025) has the pleasure to present a selection of 13 European films which have never been screened in Hong Kong before. They were chosen carefully with the Consulates-General and Cultural Institutes of the European Union to share their rich culture and cinematic talent with the Hong Kong cinephiles.
The Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong presents the Italian film Palazzina Laf, by Michele Riondino. Palazzina Laf is internationally acclaimed with multiple awards including 69th David di Donatello (Best Actor to Michele Riondino, Best Supporting Actor to Elio Germano, Best Original Song to La mia terra by Diodato) and 2024 Nastro d’Argento (Best Actor to Michele Riondino, Best Supporting Actor to Elio Germano, Best Screenplay)
Schedule:
- 22 Mar – 2:00pm – PREMIERE ELEMENTS
- 28 Mar – 7:45pm – Broadway Cinematheque
Synopsis:
Caterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use him as a spy to identify the workers they should get rid of, Caterino starts to track his colleagues, in search of reasons to report them. He then asks to be assigned himself to the Palazzina LAF where as punishment, some employees sit out their time with no job assignment. There he discovers that what looks like paradise is actually a strategy to psychologically break troublesome workers.
Language: Italian (English Subtitles)
Duration: 100 minutes
Director: Michele Riondino
Cast: Michele Riondino, Elio Germano, Vanessa Scalera, Domenico Fortunato