20th edition of CINE EUROPA
"where classics and contemporary meet"

Also this year, the Philippine Italian Association, together with the Embassy of Italy in the Philippines, participates in the European Film Festival CINE EUROPA, now at its 20th edition!
Thanks to this joint effort, Italy will present two films "I SOLITI IGNOTI" (Big deal on Madonna Street) and "20 SIGARETTE" (20 cigarettes)

20 CIGARETTES
Is a 2010 drama film directed by Aureliano Amadei.

Aureliano, 28 year old anarchist and anti-war activist gets an offer in Iraq as assistant director on a film about the Italian military ”peace mission”. Witness and victim of the attack on the Italian army barracks in Nassiriya on the 12th of November 2003, he becomes an accidental hero.

BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET is a 1958 Italian criminal-comedy film, directed by Mario Monicelli, and considered to be among the masterpieces of Italian cinema.

Its original title translates a journalistic euphemism for "unidentified criminals". The film is a comedy about a group of small-time thieves and ne'er-do-wells who bungle an attempt to burgle a state-run pawn shop (Monte di Pietà in Italian) in Rome

The Italian film, 20 sigarette, will be screened on Friday night, after the reception