Internationally recognized actress Valeria Golino will present a brief selection from her upcoming feature-length directorial debut Vi Perdono (I Forgive You), an adaptation of Angela del Fabbro’s novel about euthanasia starring Golino and Riccardo Scamarcio. The story concerns a young woman who secretly helps terminally ill people to commit suicide whose service is one day requested by a healthy person who wishes to die. Also showing is Golino’s marvelous short Armandino and the Madre (Armandino e il Madre), the story of a Romany boy who delivers messages of love from his smitten older brother to Sara, a French woman working in the Madre, Naples’ museum of contemporary art. Following a brief Q&A will be the feature presentation Kryptonite!.


Vi Perdono: Written by Valeria Golino, Valia Santella, Francesca Marciano, Photographed by . With Valeria Golino, Riccardo Scamarcio, Jasmine Trinca. 20 min. In Italian with subtitles.

Armandino and the Madre: Written by Valeria Golino, Valia Santella, Photographed by Daria D’Antonio. With Esther Garrel, Gianluca Di Gennaro, Denis Nikolic. 16 min. In Italian and French with subtitles.