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Watch free Italian films at House Samyan this April

The festival runs April 21-24 with everything from short films to romantic comedies

Kaweewat Siwanartwong
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The Italian film industry doesn't do subtle. It rocks up like a Fellini fever dream – all sweeping gestures, crumbling palazzos and someone in outsize sunglasses chain-smoking whilst quoting Sartre. But occasionally it loosens the collar, ditches the silk scarf and lets a few fresh voices slip through.

MovieMov – Italian Film Festival is one of those moments. Running April 21-24 at House Samyan, with English and Thai subtitles, the lineup brings just enough introspective angst to properly derail any plans for easy viewing.

These aren't your standard arthouse exports either. The festival grows from initiatives involving students, young professionals and local institutions.

Here’s what’s on

Bangkok 24/7 – Italian Eyes
April 21, 7pm, House 3
Italian directors, producers and actors get turned loose on Bangkok for 24 hours. What they capture – vibrant moments, fleeting emotions, the city through completely different eyes – makes up this short film.

La grazia
April 21, 7pm, House 3
A widowed Italian president juggles moral crises over euthanasia laws and killer pardons whilst discovering his late wife's infidelity during his final months in office. Light stuff, then.

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Primavera
April 22, 5pm, House 4
Cecilia, a talented violinist stuck in an orphanage, meets Vivaldi. He becomes her teacher, and through his mentorship and music, she finds the courage to break from the life she's meant for.

Domani Interrogo (Classmates)
April 23, 5pm, House 4
A teacher terrified of students – yet convinced of school's fundamental value – gets assigned to an impossible high school. Her colleagues have already given up on the bottom class: the toughest students, a proper urban melting pot hodgepodge.

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Le cose non dette (Things We Don't Say)
April 23, 7pm, House 4
A hard look at the razor-thin line between good and evil, and what flows between them, sweeping through our lives like a raging river.

Le città di pianura (The Last One for the Road)
April 24, 5pm, House 4
Two blustery 50-somethings share an obsession: having their last drink. One night they meet Giulio, a shy architecture student. As the trio wander from bar to bar across Veneto, his view of the world and love shifts completely.

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2 cuori e 2 capanne (Love in Separate Beds)
April 24, 7pm, House 4
She hates men, he hates complications – but one passionate night ties them together. Now these irreconcilable opposites work at the same school, with a baby on the way. Can a staunch feminist and an oblivious chauvinist find common ground?

Free admission. Grab tickets an hour before showtime at the Box Office, fifth floor, Samyan Mitrtown.

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