Italian Film Festival USA of Memphis

Come spend an evening in Italy! Enjoy the local premieres of three recent, critically-acclaimed Italian films at the 2025 Italian Film Festival USA of Memphis. Films shown in Italian with English subtitles at the University Center Theatre on the campus of the University of Memphis and the Dixon Gallery and Garden’s Winegardner Auditorium. Sponsored by the University of Memphis. National Sponsor: Your Italian Passport.

Schedule:

7:00pm: A World Apart: Un Mondo A Parte

Director, Riccardo Milani, Comedy, 2024, 112 min.

After years of teaching in Rome, primary schoolteacher Michele Cortese moves to an idyllic village in the heart of the Abruzzo National Park to teach at a small school with only a handful of students. But unwelcome news arrives: the school has failed to meet its student enrollment quota for the next year and will be forced to close. Thus begins a race against time to save the school…whatever it takes!