Flying Lessons (Italian Film Festival)

Sat 25 Apr 2009 – Sat 25 Apr 2009

FLYING LESSONS (LEZIONI DI VOLO) (15) 100 mins/ 2008/ Italy
Dir. Cristina Comencini
Cast: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Andrea Miglio Risi, Angel Tom Karumathy
Two 18-year-old boys from two very different Italian families decide to leave for India having failed their final school exams. One is a shy, insecure Jewish boy in conflict with his father Leone and the other an adopted Indian, from a respectable Italian family, struggling to find his identity. Arriving in India without any money or documentation the two friends are separated in the confusion. The Jewish boy Pollo is helped by an Italian doctor working for Medicins Sans Frontiers.