Cleveland Italian Film Festival 2025 SEPT. 18, - SEPT. 25, - OCT. 2

CLEVELAND ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2025

ALL FILMS SHOW AT 7:30 pm - - Tickets $13.00

SEPT. 18 Cedar Lee Theatre

SEPT. 25 Atlas Cinema Great Lakes

OCT. 2 - Atlas Cinema Great Lakes

SEPT. 18 - "THERE'S ALWAYS TOMORROW" -- C'e Ancora Domani

*** WINNER OF 6 ITALIAN OSCARS and 23 Wins & 21 Nominations***

Cedar Lee Theater 7:30pm - 2163 Lee Rd. Cleveland Hts. OH 44118

This moving comedic drama was one of the highest grossing films in Italy. Set in postwar Rome, a working class wife and mother dreams of a better future and confronts patriarchy head on.The film strikes a delicate balance between laughs and tears as it follows Delia, a hardworking woman who endures the obnoxious behavior of her husband and forges a new beginning. Award winning actress Paula Cortellesi made her directorial debut with this film and it took Italy by storm.

Parking Garage behind the Cedar Lee Theater

SEPT. 25 - "KIDNAPPED"

19 Wins and 16 Nominations including Italy’s David di Donatello (Oscar) in several catagories, the Cannes Palm D’Or and Italy’s Golden Globes.

Atlas Great Lakes Cinema - 7:30pm - 7860 Mentor Ave. Mentor, Ohio 44060 Parking in front of theater.

In this epic, moving film based on a true story, veteran director Marco Bellocchio carefully unwinds a shocking true story of a little 7 year old Jewish boy, Edgardo Mortara of Bologna, who was kidnapped by the Vatican. As a baby, a servant of the house believing him at the point of death while ill, secretly baptized him to save his soul. A few years later, the servant relayed what she had done to someone in the church. This news reached the Vatican and it sent their soldiers to the unannounced to the house telling the shocked parents that Edgardo had been baptized and could not live with them and was to be raised by nuns.

This took place during the time of the Pope/King when the Pope ruled the Papal States before the Unification in 1870. The incident became an international flashpoint highly criticized as his parents informed everyone they could. This film is an astute study of power; how it’s acquired and how it’s exercised by those who wield it.

OCT. 2 - "A WORLD APART" - Un Mondo Da Parte

Atlas Great Lakes Cinema - 7:30 pm - 7860 Mentor Ave. Mentor, Ohio 44060 Parking in front of theater. COMEDY

In this delightful comedy, Professor Michele Cortese decides after teaching in Rome for 30 years, it was time for a different teaching adventure. He manages to get assigned to a school in the heart of the Abruzzo National Park teaching a class comprised of seven to ten year old children.

Being a city man, he arrives with moccasins on his feet, doesn’t understand the dialect and is confronted with a harsh climate and terrain of this very small village - a place where probably no teacher knowing the conditions would go. When the school is under pressure to close, due to lack of enrollment, they all band together in a comedic adventure.

Questions please call: 216. 456. 8117

CLEVELAND ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2025

ALL FILMS SHOW AT 7:30 pm - SEKPT. 18, SEPT. 25, and OCT. 2 - Tickets $13.00

SEPT. 18 - "THERE'S ALWAYS TOMORROW" C'e Ancora Domani

*** WINNER OF 6 ITALIAN OSCARS and 23 Wins & 21 Nominations***

Cedar Lee Theater 7:30pm - 2163 Lee Rd. Cleveland Hts. OH 44118

This moving comedic drama was one of the highest grossing films in Italy. Set in postwar Rome, a working class wife and mother dreams of a better future and confronts patriarchy head on.The film strikes a delicate balance between laughs and tears as it follows Delia, a hardworking woman who endures the obnoxious behavior of her husband and forges a new beginning. Award winning actress Paula Cortellesi made her directorial debut with this film and it took Italy by storm.

Parking Garage behind the Cedar Lee Theater

SEPT. 25 - "KIDNAPPED"

Atlas Great Lakes Cinema - 7:30pm - 7860 Mentor Ave. Mentor, Ohio 44060 Parking in front of theater.

This epic, moving film, based on a true story, garnered 19 Wins and 16 Nominations including Italy’s David di Donatello (Oscar) in several catagories, the Cannes Palm D’Or and Italy’s Golden Globes.

Veteran director Marco Bellocchio carefully unwinds a shocking true story of a little 7 year old Jewish boy, Edgardo Mortara of Bologna, who was kidnapped by the Vatican. As a baby, a servant of the house believing him at the point of death while ill, secretly baptized him to save his soul. A few years later, the servant relayed what she had done to someone in the church. This news reached the Vatican and it sent their soldiers to the unannounced to the house telling the shocked parents that Edgardo had been baptized and could not live with them and was to be raised by nuns.

This took place during the time of the Pope/King when the Pope ruled the Papal States before the Unification in 1870. The incident became an international flashpoint highly criticized as his parents informed everyone they could. This film is an astute study of power; how it’s acquired and how it’s exercised by those who wield it.

OCT. 2 - A WORLD APART - Un Mondo Da Parte

Atlas Great Lakes Cinema - 7:30 pm - 7860 Mentor Ave. Mentor, Ohio 44060 Parking in front of theater. COMEDY

In this delightful comedy, Professor Michele Cortese decides after teaching in Rome for 30 years, it was time for a different teaching adventure. He manages to get assigned to a school in the heart of the Abruzzo National Park teaching a class comprised of seven to ten year old children.

Being a city man, he arrives with moccasins on his feet, doesn’t understand the dialect and is confronted with a harsh climate and terrain of this very small village - a place where probably no teacher knowing the conditions would go. When the school is under pressure to close, due to lack of enrollment, they all band together in a comedic adventure

Questions please call: 216. 456. 8117

Host or Publisher CLEVELAND ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2021