Italy 2006, Italian with English subtitles, 35mm, 97 min
Director: Carmine Amoroso
Screenplay: Carmine Amoroso, Filippo Ascione
Cinematography: Paolo Ferrari
Cast: Luca Lionello, Eduard Gabia, Chiara Caselli, Francesco Dominedò, Gabriel Spahiou, Luciana Littizzetto
Print Source: ISTITUTO LUCE
With post-Ceaucesceua Romania as the context, Cover Boy tells the story of Ioan, a young Romanian who arrives in Rome , and after struggling to survive as an illegal immigrant is “discovered” by a photographer who thinks that there is something grittily authentic about his looks.
At the centre of the film is the relationship between Ioan and Michele, a janitor in Rome 's main train station who takes pity on him and sublets his apartment to him. Michele is a legal immigrant – from the South of Italy – but his outsider status forms a binding link between the two men. As director Carmine Amoroso examines the somewhat homoerotic relationship between the two men, wider social and political territory is also explored.
With fine acting and acute social observations, Amoroso has created a film that is both a portrait of a friendship and a treatise against consumerism and the over-importance of status.
The Cape Winelands will again at the 2012 edition of this festival present a series of Masterclasses and workshops. These events are sponsored by the City of Cape Town and Wesgro.
Winner of the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes festival, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s new film has the magic of a fairy tale and the simplicity of a folk tale. Wonderfully immersive, slow and dreamy, 
