Date: 15 September – 5 October 2025
Venue: Broadway Cinematheque & Premiere Elements
Price: HKD95 per ticket.
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The Consulate General and the Italian Cultural Institute of Italy in Hong Kong are delighted to present the 3rd edition of ITALIAN SCREENS.
ITALIAN SCREENS is an initiative of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cinecittà for the Directorate General for Cinema and Audiovisual of the Italian Ministry of Culture, aimed at promoting the Italian Film Distribution Fund.
From 15 September to 5 October, a selection of Italian contemporary movies will be screened for the first time in Hong Kong. To open the third edition of the movie festival, Madly (Follemente) by Paolo Genovese will be screened on 15 September at Premiere Elements. After the screening, the audience has the chance for a post-screening Q & A with the director.
List of movies:
- Madly (Follemente)
Date: 15 September 2025 (Mon)
Time: 7:20pm
Venue: Premiere Elements
Director will attend post-screening talk. Conducted in English.
Date: 5 October 2025 (Sun)
Time: 1:10pm
Venue: Broadway Cinematheque
Synopsis:
If love is give and take, what do women and men want to give and take MADLY? Lara just ended a relationship with a married man. Piero is in joint custody of his daughter with his ex-wife. Ready to step into another relationship, the two encounter each other in a bar, and arrange their first date in Lara’s apartment. Their intuitions are overflowing with complicated contradictory feelings: romance, lust, misery, rationality, rebelliousness, madness… Will the two make it?
This is the latest romantic comedy directed by Paolo Genovese, who also helms the world popular dark romance comedy, Perfect Strangers.
Best Comedy and Best Actress in a Comedy, Nastri d’Argento Awards
- The Great Ambition (Berlinguer: La grande ambizione)
Date: 20 September 2025 (Sat)
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: Broadway Cinematheque
Date: 30 September 2025 (Tue)
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Broadway Cinematheque
Synopsis:
Italy, 1970s, a decade of great idealism. Enrico Berlinguer serves as the Secretary of the largest Communist party in the Western world. With over 1.7 million members and more than 12 million voters, the party shares a bold vision: to achieve socialism through democracy. Defying the rigid divisions of the Cold War, Berlinguer and the Italian Communist Party (PCI) spent five years striving for power, engaging in unprecedented dialogue with the Christian Democracy, and coming tantalisingly close to altering the course of history. Amid assassination attempts by the Bulgarian secret services, intense election campaigns, and delicate negotiations with Moscow, Berlinguer’s journey is one of perseverance, risk, and ambition.
Best Actor, Best Editing, David di Donatello Awards
Best Screenplay, Nastri d’Argento Awards
Best Actor, Rome International Film Festival
- The Time It Takes (Il tempo che ci vuole)
Date: 23 September 2025 (Tue)
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Broadway Cinematheque
Date: 5 October 2025 (Sun)
Time: 3:00pm
Venue: Broadway Cinematheque
Synopsis:
“With cinema,” The father says, “You can escape. With your own mind”. Luigi takes pains to be a good person, a good father and a good director. On his own, he takes care of his daughter, Francesca. She accompanies his father in and out of film sets, growing up in the air of where realities meet dreams. As Francesca adults in the love of her father, they are caught in Italy’s waves of student movements and political crises. Luigi decides to put cinema aside, and focuses on healing the lost and devastated Francesca.
Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Casting Director, Nastri d’Argento Awards
Best Actress (Pasinetti Award), Special Mention (Soundtrack Stars Award), Venice Film Festival
- Outside (Fuori)
Date: 28 September 2025 (Sun)
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: Broadway Cinematheque
Synopsis:
The pioneering Italian writer, Goliarda Sapienza, was recognised by the literary world posthumously. In the late 70s, she completed her magnum opus, The Art of Joy. In 1980, Sapienza is imprisoned for stealing jewellery. Her encounter with the inmates is life-changing. After she gets out of prison, she continues a deep bond with Roberta, a young repeat offender and political activist. A connection no one on the outside can truly understand, but through which Sapienza rediscovers the joy of living and the drive to write again.
Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, Nastri d’Argento Awards
In Competition, Cannes Film Festival
- Diamonds (Diamanti)
Date: 28 September 2025 (Sun)
Time: 3:30pm
Venue: Broadway Cinematheque
Synopsis:
As the seamstresses lament that they live like ants in their studio of glamorous costumes, an Oscar-winning director delineates the transcendent beauty of these women’s spirits. Wanting to make a film about women, the director has invited his beloved actresses to portray a group of resilient and tender seamstresses in a now disappeared film and theatrical costume shop. These everyday but distinct characters support each other in extraordinary ways in dire circumstances, revealing their independence, passions, anxieties and strengths.
David of the Spectator, David di Donatello Awards
Film of the Year, Nastri d’Argento Awards
