A movie by Gianni Amelio. Documenty, 93 min. – Italy 2014
XXX Haifa International Film Festival
XXX Haifa International Film FestivalHAPPY TO BE DIFFERENTA movie by Gianni Amelio. Documenty, 93 min. – Italy 2014Gianni Amelio's moving new documentary is a chronicle of gay life in Italy from the fall of Fascism through the early 1980s. Amelio combines interviews with a wide range of older gay Italian men from across the social classes and regions of the country, newsreel footage, and clips from "educational" films warning against homosexuality, and in the process reveals a profound gap between the subjects' firsthand experiences and the Italian media's representations of them. The resulting film is a deeply personal account of the advent of gay culture amid the ruins of Mussolini's Italy and the eternally poignant story of how persecuted individuals developed pragmatic ways to attain everyday happiness. (HAIFF)In Italian, with Hebrew and English subtitles.Sunday, October 12th, at 22:00Tikotin Museum89 Hanassi Avenue, Haifa