MILWAUKEE _ The Italian Film Festival USA is once again stopping in the city in April with help from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

With eight films ranging from documentaries to comedies to political thrillers, the annual Italian Film Festival USA invites audiences to experience a slice of Italian culture in their own backyard. Films are shown in their original Italian with English subtitles.

Showings will be April 28-30 at the UW-Milwaukee Union Cinema, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd. All shows are free and open to the public.

This year’s films include:

• “Feather” (Piuma): Ferro and Cate have just nine months to prepare themselves, as well as their parents, for the arrival of a baby! Will they be ready?
• “The Confessions” (Le Confessioni): The director of the International Monetary Fund invites an Italian monk to hear his confession at a G8 meeting. Following a tragic and unexpected incident, the G8 ministers and the monk engage in an intensifying struggle regarding the director’s confession.
• “An Almost Perfect Town” (Un Paese Quasi Perfetto): The inhabitants of a remote mountain village on the verge of economic extinction are desperate to save their small town. Will their wacky plan succeed?
• “Like Crazy” (La Pazza Gioia): Beatrice, a self-proclaimed countess, and Donatella, a mysterious tattooed woman, are both patients of a women’s mental institution. Their unpredictable friendship brings them to a hilarious and touching escape and the search for a little happiness in the world of the sane. A modern-day Thelma and Louise!
• “The Last Will Be The Last” (Gli Ultimi Saranno Ultimi): Luciana is leading the quiet life she’s always desired with her husband, Stefano. But shortly after finding out she’s pregnant, Luciana gets fired and her world starts falling apart. Will she find justice?
• “The Road to Reconciliation” (La Via Della Conciliazione): This documentary centers on the Via della Conciliazione leading to St. Peter’s Bascilica, one of Rome’s most famous images. Few realize this street has not always been there, and, in fact, it was not part of Bernini’s architectural vision.
• “Daddy’s Boys” (Belli di Papá): Vincenzo, a successful entrepreneur, concocts a scheme to bring his three adult children back to the real world from their lives of luxury. They all must do something they’ve never done before: work!
• “The Stuff of Dreams” (La Stoffa dei Sogni): A boat carrying a small acting company, together with a group of mobsters, wrecks on the shores of an island prison after World War II. An homage to Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” and De Filippo’s “Art of Comedy.”

About the Italian Film Festival USA

The Italian Film Festival USA is organized by the Italian Film Festival of St. Louis, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization. Their objective is to provide the public the opportunity to see films that have not yet or may never be seen locally, always with the scope to elevate the awareness of and educate the public about Italy-its land, people, culture, and language.

About UWM

Recognized as one of the nation’s 115 top research universities, UW-Milwaukee provides a world-class education to 26,000 students from 89 countries on a budget of $667 million. Its 14 schools and colleges include Wisconsin’s only schools of architecture, freshwater sciences and public health, and it is a leading educator of nurses and teachers. UW-Milwaukee partners with leading companies to conduct joint research, offer student internships and serve as an economic engine for southeastern Wisconsin. The Princeton Review named UW-Milwaukee a 2017 “Best Midwestern” university based on overall academic excellence and student reviews, as well as a top “Green College.”