When: Oct 24, 2024, 6:30 PM - Where: Westchester Italian Cultural Center, 1 Generoso Pope Pl, Tuckahoe, NY 10707, USA 

*This is a 4 part Italian Film Study Course (October 24, November 7, November 21, December 5). Registration fee includes all four films/classes, Tasting of regional foods, wine and coffee. Classes MAY NOT be purchased separately.

In the challengingly hellish period of World War II and its aftermath, Italy made its greatest contribution to the art of cinema: il Neorealismo .This innovative, crudeand eye-opening presentation of reality was the first postwar film movement todiscard past conventions and studio production techniques simply because of the impoverished state of the industry and the country; additionally, its proponents were obsessed with the over-powering need to show the world a new and truer reality.