‘Cinema Italiano Contemporaneo’ Film Series to Open Sept. 29

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By Gabriella Geri-Schooley for the Italian Cultural Heritage Foundation of Santa Barbara

Italian Cultural Heritage Foundation hosting the free screenings

Cinema Italiano Contemporaneo, the 2012 annual series of contemporary Italian cinema, will open at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29 with a great psychological drama, Habemus Papam (“We have a Pope”), directed by Nanni Moretti.

Admission is free. Films will be in Italian with English subtitles. All screenings will be held in the Fe’ Bland Theater on SBCC’s West Campus, 721 Cliff Drive.

For the complete lineup of this year’s screenings, click here or call 805.969.1018.

The series is brought to you by the nonprofit Italian Cultural Heritage Foundation of Santa Barbara.

— Gabriella Geri-Schooley is president of the Italian Cultural Heritage Foundation of Santa Barbara.

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