Moderator: Kathleen Rider, Department of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota.
This beautiful documentary explores the difficulties of immigrants in Italy even in something as innocent as football.
Afro-Naples United is one of the most successful amateur soccer teams in Italy. Playing in the northern suburbs of Naples, they are made up of Neopolitans, second generation Italians, and migrants from Africa and South America. But when the founder of Afro-Naples wants his incredibly successful team to compete in the semi-professional league organized by the Italian Soccer Federation, he runs headlong into bureaucracy, myriad laws, and outright racism.
WINNER OF:
29° Fipa in Biarritz- Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels - Best Foreign Film
56° Festival dei Popoli in Florence - Best Italian Film
10° Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de la Ciudad de México - Best Film in the section Más rápido, más alto, más fuerte
Sponsored By
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ANDREA & VITTORIO RAIMONDI |
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ROBERTO FRANCESCO CICERO |
Italian Film Festival
The Italian Film Festival returns for its 9th year, bringing the best movies from Italy to the Twin Cities, presenting nine films total, eight never before seen in Minnesota, and a celebration of Sergio Leone.
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