The first previews: guest of honor Maria Grazia Cucinotta. Expected Donatella Finocchiaro, Pino Ammendola, Alessio Vassallo. Sul palco anche Colapesce e Di Martino Al via la Summer School per sensibilizzare i giovani sulla tutela dell’ambiente e del mare Conto alla rovescia per la quarta edizione del Marettimo Italian Film Fest 2023 - We love the sea, the appointment dedicated to Made in Italy cinema which will kick off on 19 July on the island, with the official opening in the enchanting scenery of the Egadi. From actors to actresses, to the singers, many characters who will be protagonists in Marettimo until the evening of 22 July. The
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#Amusia Opera Prima by Marescotti Ruspoli
The debut film was presented at the Petruzzelli Theater in Bari as part of the Bif&st in concorso nella sezione Panorama Internazionale E’ un film che ricorda tanto lo stile di Marco Ferreri con paesaggio stilizzato nelle forme geometriche più minimalizzate dove le scritte al neon indicano allo spettatore il percorso del regista. The incipit shows us a music composer who is interrupted by the crying of his newborn daughter. The battle between musical notes and silence begins like this. On the other hand, the disturbing script takes us to another world: a dating motel the
The return of #Casanova by Gabriele Salvatores
The Oscar-winning director faces an autobiographical portrait of himself (as the interviewee confessed) and speaks on the one hand about the efforts of a famous director who falls into depression from the passage of time in black and white. If we think about it, at the basis of cinema there is precisely this unavoidable parameter for human beings with i 24 frames per second that have been animating the frames of motion picture film since its inception! On the other hand, it speaks of the decadence of another great figure in the collective imagination told in colour: Casanova by borrowing and freely drawing inspiration
SPECIAL 62nd Festival of Peoples - 20/28 November 2021 #1 (DAY1)
Diaries of Otsoga di Miguel Gomes and Maureen Farmer apre il #FdP62: Joy and desire for the new cinema beyond the pandemic with a frame that was chosen for the poster 2021 (Florence Luigi Noera - The photos are published courtesy of FdP) It will be Diários de Otsoga's first national team, the film shot during the quarantine by the Portuguese couple in co-debut Miguel Gomes and Maureen Fazendeiro, to inaugurate the 62nd Festival dei Popoli, the international documentary film festival, at the cinema La Compagnia di Firenze, in the presence of
#MAGNAGRAECIAFF 18th Ed. - I PREMI: The juries and the public split up
(The photos are published courtesy of the MAGNA GRAECIA FILM FESTIVAL) The 18th edition of the Magna Graecia Film Festival conceived and directed by Gianvito Casadonte ended with the award ceremony. Nine days of screenings and meetings that embraced the whole city, from the sea to the historic center of the Calabrian capital. National and international previews, exceptional masterclass - from Paul Haggis to Gioacchino Criaco, from John Savage to Marco Risi, Peter Greenaway and Saskia Boddeke musical performances and many guests animated this edition, which saw the final awards of the three competitions last night. All prizes
THE NEWS # PESAROFF57: Different directions
So said the Artistic Director Pedro Armocida: “Different directions. They are the ones we take every year. But, when we look back, we only see the "new cinema". Obviously the road we travel always leads us there. And basically, even in tortuous times it appears more and more linear. It will be the gentle breeze that accompanies us, but the look relaxes and, sometimes, we close our eyes, even if you don't have to. And the imagined cinema takes shape. Try to do it, Right now. It works. Cinema sets memories in motion. It
#FdP61 Peoples Reloaded from 15 al 18 June at the cinema La Compagnia di Firenze
“Popoli Reloaded”, tornano in sala i documentari dell’archivio del Festival dei Popoli Il regista rumeno Radu Jude, winner this year of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, is the protagonist of Peoples Reloaded, the initiative organized by the Festival dei Popoli, the international documentary film festival,to celebrate the reopening of the rooms and enhance the historical archive of the festival, to be held from 15 al 18 June at the cinema La Compagnia di Firenze,with a selection of his films and an in-person masterclass (event organized in collaboration with the Romanian Academy in Rome). Peoples Reloaded is organized under the
32mo #TRIESTEFILMFESTIVAL second part 4 -5 e 12 – 13 June
The 32nd Trieste Film Festival relaunches and continues in theaters in June, to the Miela Theater. in fact, alongside the online formula imposed by the Covid-19 health emergency at the beginning of the year, has chosen from the outset to carry out a part of the Festival for in-person programming and for two weekends, now bringing a tribute to two great authors who recently passed away, to Balkan cinema on the anniversary of the breakup of the Yugoslav federation, and the TSFF of the Little ones, rassegna di cinema dedicata ai più giovani spettatori del Festival «Dopo il grande successo dell’edizione online del Trieste Film Festival
Criticism film from the #SNCCI: THE HOLE IN THE HEAD by Antonio Capuano
THE HOLE IN THE HEAD by Antonio Capuano, presented Out of Competition at the 38th Turin Film Festival and distributed by Eskimo in collaboration with Altri Sguardi (release in theaters 20 May), was designated Film of the Critics by the National Union of Italian Film Critics SNCCI with the following motivation: For the lucid and passionate vitality that Antonio Capuano infuses in a story of tiring human redemption and difficult historical reconciliation. The author confronts one of the darkest pages in our country, outlining with sensitivity, passion and vigor the portrait of a woman
#Biografilm is back together with #BiotoB - Industry Days, from 4 al 14 June
After the success of the edition 2020, also for the 2021 Biografilm festival will keep its traditional dates and will run from 4 al 14 June in Bologna. Biografilm was the first festival in Italy to take place online in 2020, thanks to the collaboration with MYmovies, which for the first time hosted a festival on its platform, with over 46 thousand reservations for over 40 film program. For the edition 2021 the number of films on the program will increase, until you get to a number among 80 e i 100 film and the whole