At NYU's Cantor Film Center in Greenwich Village, NYC: Free Anna Magnani Film at N.I.C.E. Festival

N.I.C.E. Festival, the Florence-based New Italian Cinema Events series, is touring the U.S. for its 36th edition, and its second New York screening lands in Greenwich Village on Monday, Nov. 16, at 8 PM. The venue is the Iris Cantor Theatre at NYU.

The film is Monica Guerritore's Anna (Anna Magnani: The Untold Story), a portrait of one of Italian cinema's defining actresses. It screens in the original Italian with English subtitles.

After the film, actress Beatrice Grannò takes part in a Q&A moderated by Stefano Albertini, director of NYU's Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò.

Admission is free, with advance registration required through the Casa Italiana NYU events page.

This year's festival also visits Montclair and Princeton in New Jersey, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Philadelphia. Artistic director Viviana del Bianco says the new university venues are meant to reach students on campus. In New York, the festival opened on Nov. 7 with a screening at the Italian Cultural Institute.

For Italian-film fans and language learners, it is a free weeknight screening with a guest in the room.