Dolce Fine Giornata
2019 | 92 minutes | Poland
Director: Jacek Borcuch
Writers: Jacek Borcuch, Marcin Cecko, Szczepan Twardoch
Languages: French, Italian, Polish
Sundance Film Festival, Best Acting (Krystyna Janda)
The witty, loving, and intensely intelligent Maria, a Polish writer who has recently won the Nobel Prize in Literature, is enjoying her semi-retired life in a small town in Tuscany surrounded by her loving family. Beyond this bucolic Italian paradise, however, tensions are mounting. Those in the quiet Tuscan town, as in other places in Europe, are growing increasingly concerned about the influx of refugees and immigrants.
Passionate and independent, Maria finds such xenophobic attitudes unpalatable and is having a secret affair with a younger Egyptian man who lives in the community. After a terrorist bombing in Rome and her controversial acceptance speech of her literary prize, suddenly the community looks at Maria very differently. The consequences of her defiant words, and her affair, are unpredictable, even dangerous, as her small town and Europe itself lurches toward a new and unpredictable path.
Launched to critical acclaim at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, Borcuch’s film features a towering performance by Polish screen legend Krystyna Janda, for which she won a Best Acting Award at Sundance. As impassioned and articulate as its protagonist, Dolce Fine Giornata is a provocative, insightful drama about our troubled, tense, turbulent times.
-Tom McSorley
Screenings
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25
7:00PM
IFFO kicks off with your grand entrance on the red carpet! Dress accordingly and get your photo taken before the opening screening then join us after for some bubbly and celebration in Club SAW.
Preceded by the short film
Brotherhood
Mohamed is a hardened shepherd living in rural Tunisia with his wife and two sons. He is deeply shaken when his oldest son Malik returns home after a long journey with a mysterious new wife. Tension between father and son rises until reaching a surprising and irrevocable breaking point.
Tying into themes of radicalization and prejudice found in Dolce Fine Giornata, Brotherhood sets a commanding tone not only for IFFO’s opening feature presentation, but for the inaugural event itself.
Opening Night Gala sponsored by
