Kansas City Italian Film Festival

Come spend an evening in Italy! Enjoy the local premieres of two recent, critically-acclaimed Italian films and a program of short films at the 2025 Italian Film Festival USA of Kansas City. Films shown in Italian with English subtitles at the Royall Hall, Room 104, at 800 E 52nd Street, on the campus of the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). National Sponsor: Your Italian Passport.

Schedule of Events:

6:00 pm: The Commander - Comandante

Director, Edoardo De Angelis, Drama, Historical, 2023, 122 min.

One dark night in October 1940, while navigating in the Atlantic, the Italian submarine Cappellini comes upon the armed Belgian merchant ship Kabalo. A fierce battle ensues in which the Cappellini sinks the Kabalo. Commander Salvatore Todaro then makes a decision that would go down in history

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