2009 06 07 - IFF2009 - BILLO, THE GRAND DAKHAAR (BILLO, IL GRAN DAKHAAR)

BILLO, THE GRAND DAKHAAR (BILLO, IL GRAN DAKHAAR)
Screening: Sunday 7 June at 7.30pm
DIRECTOR : Laura Muscardin
YEAR : 2007
GENRE :Comedy
RATING : TBA
CAST : Thierno Thiam, Susy Laude, Carmen De Santos, Marco Bonini, Paolo Gasparini

SYNOPSIS
Leaving behind his mother, his fiancée and his marabout (religious advisor), Senegalese tailor Billo sets off for Rome to make it big in the fashion world. Struggling at first, he eventually hooks up with a group of sympathetic Italians, and good things start to happen; he’s safe, settled and even selling his old clothes. Then a call from Senegal arrives, telling him that everything is set for his upcoming wedding but Billo in Italy has met Laura...

2009 06 07 - IFF2009 - DAYS AND CLOUDS (GIORNI E NUVOLE)

DAYS AND CLOUDS (GIORNI E NUVOLE)
Screening: Sunday 7 June at 2.45pm
DIRECTOR : Silvio Soldini
YEAR : 2006
GENRE : Drama
RATING : M16 (Some course language and sexual references)
CAST : Margherita Buy, Antonio Albanese, Giuseppe Battiston

SYNOPSIS
The story of Elsa and Michele, a respectable well-off couple, but the bottom drops out of their world. Michele suddenly confesses that he has been out of a job for two months, having been dismissed by the very company he himself had created years before. Shocked by the crisis, Elsa suddenly seems to draw upon new energy to face the situation. Michele, on the other hand, completely discouraged by his vain attempts to find another job, completely loses control, swinging from futile wild hopes to listless apathy. The abyss between Elsa and Michele grows greater and greater, finally bringing them to the verge of a break up. Life for Elsa and Michele will certainly not be easy as they face the unknown and very different future, yet perhaps that future may even be for the better.