Teodora Film and the National Cinema Museum are presenting the premiere of "Charley Thompson" by Andrew Haigh.

The National Cinema Museum is pleased to host the premiere of Andrew Haigh’s film Charley Thompson, on Wednesday 28 March at 9.00 p.m. on Screen Two in the Cinema Massimo. This film took part in the latest International Venice Film Festival, where the young protagonist Charlie Plummer won the Marcello Mastroianni Prize.

This premiere is organised in collaboration with Teodora Film and the film, which will be released theatrically on Thursday 5 April, is going to be screened in its original subtitled version. Admission 7.50/5.00 euro.

Andrew Haigh

Charley Thompson

(Great Britain, 2017, 121’)

Aged 15, Charley Thompson dreams of having a more stable life: a home, someone preparing meals for him, not having to change schools continually and having the possibility of making friends. To sum it up, a normal life. But living with a single father, Ray, a workman who is not only specialised in his job but also in getting into trouble, normality seems a real chimera. And everything seems to go even worse, when father and son move to Portland, in Oregon, hoping in a new start. Feeling more lonely than ever, one day Charley decides the moment has arrived to get a grip on his life and to search for a better future on his own. Thus, with his only friend, an old racehorse called Lean on Pete, he begins a journey through deepest America...