 Italian Film Festival Cardiff 22-26 November 2017 |
| Friday 24 November |
The Gate Arts Centre, Keppoch St, Cardiff, CF24 3JW
The Arcade Vaults and The Gate Arts Centre are running a Café Night for all you retro gaming fans! They’ll be putting on the usual wide array of classic games and consoles including: A Nintendo corner featuring an NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, Wii, Switch and perhaps a *small* SNES related surprise, A PS1 (with light guns!) and the all-time classic best seller, a PS2, An Amiga 1200 with LOADS of games (you name it, we probably have it), computing classics including the BBC Micro, a Spectrum ZX +2 and a Commodore 64, Giants of the portable wars, the GameBoy Color, a Sega Game Gear and Atari Lynx, a Sega Megadrive and maybe even a Sega Megadrive II, as well as a Dreamcast, Two of the early 80s classic, the Atari 2600 and er a Pong Clone made by Prinztronic, Excitingly, we’ll also have a PS4 with our very own PSVR kit for you to try at no additional charge!
Cost: £3.50
Time: 19:00
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| Saturday 25 November |
CHAPTER, Market Road, Canton, Cardiff, CF5 1QE
Welsh premiere movie in Italian with English subtitles. Members of the Camorra on the run and actors seeking for authority meet after a shipwreck on an island-prison. The theatre turns into a no man’s land where the protagonists lose their social status but have the opportunity to regain their humanity, some even rediscovering lost love. Shakespeare and Eduardo De Filippo blend together in a picaresque comedy full of coup de théâtre. Winner of Italian Golden Globe.
Cost: £5.10-£7.20
Time: 20:00
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| Sunday 26 November |
CHAPTER, Market Road, Canton, Cardiff, CF5 1QE
UK premiere movie in Italian with English subtitles. Maria is an aspiring actress working for a letting agency in Rome. Follow her hectic life and discover the ‘real’ Rome and its conflicting relation with tourism. A fine example of Italian comedy at its best. Followed by short movie Nausicaa - The Other Odyssey UK Premiere
Cost: £3-£4
Time: 14:00
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| Monday 27 November |
49 St Mary St, Cardiff CF10 1AD
Let’s bring some action to our lives after the gaming and movie weekend and let’s move to the Brewhouse where you can listen to some nice live music by three talented artists. Starting with Nick Pendry at five, continuing with Acoustic Sinners at seven and finishing with a concert of James Harris Duo from nine. Great prices on drinks included!
Cost: free
Time: 17:00
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| Tuesday 29 November |
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, CF10 5AL
It’s so cold, so let’s go back to the movies. A lavish train ride unfolds into a stylish & suspenseful mystery. From the novel by Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express tells of thirteen stranded strangers & one man's race to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again.
Cost: £3-£4
Time: 17:30
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| Wednesday 30 November |
Gwdihŵ Café Bar, 6 Guildford Crescent, Off Churchill Way, Cardiff, CF10 2HJ
Let’s enjoy some music this Wednesday in Gwdihw bar. They’re bringing to you stunning, sixties influenced indie-pop of Shop Girls, supported by more music from Flowers for Freaks and Mellt.
Cost: £3-£4
Time: 19:30
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| Thursday 1 December |
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Castle Grounds, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3ER
A play by Lynn Nottage, directed by Ola Ince. Esther’s sewing skills are much in demand, she dreams of love and marriage of her own whilst making undergarments for other women to wear on their wedding nights. Her opportunity comes when George starts writing to her. But Esther cannot read or write. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage (Ruined, Sweat) explores the solitary desires of a single black woman fending for herself in early 20th Century New York.
Cost: £6-£13
Time: 19:00
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