For the second year in a row, the Westchester Italian Film Festival will be featuring contemporary Italian films in collaboration with the Miami Italian Film Festival.
Raise Your Head garnered the Best Actor and Best Italian Actress awards at the Rome Film Festival. From the Rome Film Festival: "Mero, a skilled shipyard worker, is a single father. His son Lorenzo, born from a relationship with an Albanian girl, is his only reason for living. The father dreams that the boy will become a champion boxer, to make up for his own anonymous career as an amateur in the ring. This is why he puts him through a tough training program, teaching him day after day to throw punches and protect himself from life's low blows. The balance of this relationship is disturbed by the return of Lorenzo's mother, Denisa, and by the son's meeting with young Ana. Mero's trials are not over and he must face up to pain, his prejudices and the remoteness of Italy's northeast."
In Italian with English subtitles. There will be a coffee reception beginning at 2:00.
