After being forgotten in a highway cafe during a bus trip, a housewife decides to start a new life by herself in Venice. This is a special engagement presented by the Delaware Italian-American Education Association and open to the public. Professor Giorgio Melloni of The University of Delaware will offer introductory remarks.

NOMINATED FOR 8 ACADEMY AWARDS From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao (nominated for an Oscar for Best Director for this film), HAMNET tells the powerful love story that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet. Starring Paul Mescal and Jesse Buckley (nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress). Also nominated for Best Picture, Costume Design, Adapted Screenplay, Casting and more.

A timid man (Harry Melling) is swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker (Alexander Skarsgård) takes him on as his submissive.

Pompeii: Below the Clouds is a contemplative black-and-white documentary exploring life in Naples and the ruins of Pompeii under the looming presence of Mount Vesuvius. Naples faces dual volcanic threats from Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei. Amid increasing tremors, archaeologists work as residents live anxiously, haunted by Pompeii's fate while emergency services strain.

NOMINATED FOR 2 ACADEMY AWARDS A father (Sergi López) and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They are searching for Mar — daughter and sister — who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless parties. Surrounded by electronic music and a raw, unfamiliar sense of freedom, they hand out her photo again and again. Hope is fading, but they push through and follow a group of ravers heading to one last party in the desert. As they venture deeper into the burning wilderness, the journey forces them to confront their own limits.

A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island. It is a powerful, often disturbing and strongly emotional film that deals with one of the most urgent issues facing Italy, and Western Europe, the influx of desperately poor immigrants/refugees from Africa. The film is set on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, which in recent years has received so many of these refugees that their "centri di accoglienza" can barely accommodate them. The elderly fisherman Ernesto, who rescues at sea an African mother and her son, represents an older, humane ethos, a Christian ethic in the best sense and the code of seafarers that demands one never abandons anyone lost at sea. This is a special engagement presented by the Delaware Italian-American Education Association and open to the public. Professor Metello Mugnai from West Chester University will offer introductory remarks.