ICI London and CinemaItaliaUK present
Future Classics. Screening the New Italian Cinema #7
Future Classics is a new film series dedicated to Italian cinema and its contemporary classics, offering a vivid and dynamic portrait of Italy — its faces, landscapes and stories. Curated by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Londra and CinemaItaliaUK, the programme highlights a key phase of renewal and evolution in Italian cinema: the wave of new directors, the rise of independent producers and the revival of genre filmmaking.
Screenings will take place monthly (excluding July and August) throughout 2026 in selected venues in central London.
Seventh screening in the series:
Monday 9 November, 4.30pm at ICI London
ARF by Simona Cornacchia and Anna Russo
An animation film produced by Genoma Films with the support of Ministero della Cultura (Italian Ministry of Culture) and the Emilia Romagna Film Commission
In Italian with English subtitles
Introduced by Simona Cornacchia
World War II: men, afflicted by hunger, cold and fear are now unable to feel love. So it happens that an abandoned baby is saved by a heroic white dog, who adopts him, christens him Arf and lets him grow up with his four-legged companions. Half man and half dog, the little one grows up strong, happy and above all unaware of the cruelty that inhabits the earth. Until one day he is discovered, arrested and taken to a prison camp. But Arf, with the innocence and lightness of someone who has never had anything from life, turns the entire camp upside down, confuses the jailers, subverts all the rules. And when one day, by chance, the Führer himself arrives in the camp, he seems to be able to change the fate of the war.n an isolated Tuscany valley, Adriano, a 50-year-old man haunted by a troubled past, lives alone in the renovated stables of a crumbling villa. Suddenly, a group of young idealists, led by Matilde, take over the empty villa, hoping to restore its long-abandoned vineyards. Though initially annoyed, Adriano gradually finds himself drawn to this lively community. But beneath the surface of this fragile harmony, old tensions and buried secrets begin to resurface. What is the heavy burden Adriano is trying so hard to conceal, and why does the manor awaken his darkest memories?
Free admission
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