Skopje, 9 June 2025 (MIA) — Italian Film Week: Journey — Settimana del cinema italiano: Il viaggio — opens this evening and runs through June 14 at the Cinematheque.
Held for the 25th time, this year’s Italian Film Week will present six highly acclaimed Italian films released between 2024 and 2025, organizers said in a press release.
Paolo Sorrentino’s “Parthenope” (2024), a work that mixes poetry, nostalgia and love for the director’s hometown of Naples, will be screened Monday.
“At the center of the narrative is Parthenope, an independent and nonconformist woman, with a magnetic beauty who is in a perpetual search for knowledge. Hers is an existential and symbolic journey, marked by significant encounters, loves, friendships and disillusions, which is deeply intertwined with the story of Naples, a splendid and decadent city, beautiful and damned, which in the film becomes a character in itself, alive and vibrant,” organizers wrote.
The Cinematheque will screen Tuesday the historical drama dedicated to Giuseppe Garibaldi’s campaign for the unification of Italy in 1860, “The Blunder” (“L’abbaglio,” 2025) by Roberto Andò. The latest work by Oscar winner Gabriele Salvatores, “Napoli – New York” (2024), the journey of two Neapolitan kids to New York to escape Italy’s early postwar poverty, will be shown Wednesday.
“Perfect Strangers” director Paolo Genovese’s new comedy “Madly” (“FolleMente,” 2025) will be shown Thursday; Greta Scarano’s filmmaking debut “Siblings” (“La vita da grandi,” 2025) will be shown Friday and Ferzan Özpetek’s period piece set in the late 1970s and early 1980s “Diamonds” (“Diamanti,” 2024) will be shown Saturday.
All screenings begin at 8 pm. The films will be screened in Italian, with English and Macedonian subtitles. Admission is free. Italian Film Week is organized by the Italian Embassy in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Belgrade, the Cinematheque of the Republic of North Macedonia and the Italian Screens project promoted by Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Cinecittà, and the Directorate General of Film and Audiovisual Arts of the Italian Ministry of Culture.
