April 24, 2015 - “The main idea is that we want to have an event that is able to connect the New Haven community, and in particular the Italian-American community, with the Yale student community,” said Chris Kaiser, a sixth-year PhD student in Yale’s Italian department. “And we want to do that in the context of Italian cinema. It’s our little contribution towards overcoming the town-gown divide.”
Hence the 10th Annual Festival of New Italian Cinema, which began last night and runs through Sunday at the Whitney Humanities Center.