Italian Film Festival Havelock North

11.00am With or Without You

Stefano Sardo, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Valentina Gaia based on their novel Una Relazione, WITH OR WITHOUT YOU is a realistic and delicate reflection on the end of a relationship.

1.00pm Superheroes

The story of a young couple who falls in love and struggles to keep its relationship alive going through tenderness and fights, lies and emotions, secrets and cheatings. A sentimental dramedy about couples and the effect of time passing on their relationships, posing a simple but profound question: what superpowers you need to have, to love each other your whole life?

3.30pm The Code of Silence

Rosa is a young rebel girl who lives with her grandmother and her uncle in a remote part of Calabria, in Southernmost Italy. Her mother's untimely death when Rosa was a child casts a gloomy shadow on her present life.

6.00pm Casanova's Return

In this new drama from Gabriele Salvatores, the excellent Toni Servillo stars as Leo Bernadi, a successful and acclaimed Italian director. He is approaching the end of his career, but he cannot accept his slow decline. The last movie he just finished shooting is inspired by the novel about Casanova by Arthur Schnitzler, a character so similar to the director, even more than he could imagine.