Cheltenham International Film Festival

No Dogs or Italians Allowed - part of the Cheltenham International Film Festival

This screening forms part of Cheltenham International Film Festival, which marks its 5th anniversary in 2023. The festival will screen new films from around the world, plus film classics and is adding television, and new live events to its programme, along with guest celebrities.

Alain Ughetto’s charming animated story of his grandparents relocation from Italy to France in the first half of the 20th century

In this captivating and utterly charming animation, seasoned French documentarian Alain Ughetto follows the true story of his grandparent’s relocation from a mountain village in Ughettera, Northern Italy to start a new life in France. Set during times of great hardship, it combines moving, family centred neo realist storytelling with exquisite stop frame animation. The expressive moulded characters are combined with imaginative use of makeshift props – sugar cubes as bricks, sprigs of broccoli as trees – and Ughetto occasionally breaks the fourth wall to insert his creative hands into the story to adjust the set and connect himself with his descendants.

Based on childhood conversations with his grandmother and spanning four decades of war, famine, flu, fascism – and, above all, love – it’s a touching and often humorous story of resilience and new beginnings.

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