Italian Film Festival USA of Milwaukee

Enjoy the local premieres of eight recent, critically acclaimed Italian films at the 2024 Italian Film Festival USA of Milwaukee. All films shown at the Union Cinema, Kenwood Boulevard and Maryland Avenue, on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Schedule of Events:

3:00 p.m: Billy
Director, Emilia Mazzacurati, Comedy, 2023, 97 min.

Billy, a child prodigy who hosted a successful music podcast, is now nineteen and lives with his eccentric mother. A meeting with his childhood idol will lead him to find a new way to face the future.

5:00 p.m: A Hundred Sundays (Cento Domeniche)
Director, Antonio Albanese, Drama, 2023, 94 min.

Antonio is overjoyed when his only child, Emilia, announces her engagement. He is proud to use his life savings to give her the reception she has always wanted. But is his bank hiding something?

7:00 p.m: The De Filippo Siblings (I Fratelli De Filippo)
Director, Sergio Rubini, Drama, 2021, 142 min.

Eduardo De Filippo, one of Italy’s greatest playwrights, and his siblings Titina and Peppino grew up in the early 1900s in Naples. Their difficult family life gave them a new perspective to theatre.