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: LILIANA

Director, Ruggero Gabbai, Documentary, 2024, 97 min.

Liliana Segre retraces her extraordinary life story, from her arrest , deportation at the age of thirteen from Milan to Auschwitz and poignant final farewell to her father, to her nomination to Senator for life by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella in 2018.

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