#CANNES 2018 and the concern of SNCCI: press release

The National Union of Film Critics in the words of President Franco Montini concerned about the cancellation of the morning print previews with the following press who dutifully publish: Cannes 2018 - previews cancellation Press. The National Syndicate of Italian Film Critics - SNCCI very concerned by the new organization of press screenings at the Cannes Film Festival 2018 and it joins the concerns expressed by the Fipresci and French colleagues of the Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma. As far as we learned from the press, early cater exclusively to journalists

The Constitution - Two unusual love stories Rajko Grlic, or the universal theme of integration

In Italian cinemas from 5 April, The Constitution - Two unusual Stories of Love is the last, award-winning film by Rajko Grlic and distributed in Italy by the Film International. Vjeko is a Croatian teacher of middle-aged, after the death of comrade, He lives with his seriously ill father. The man usually wears women's clothes, and then leave, at night, a drink in a local coffee shop. One evening, But, It is beaten up by a group of thugs who hate homosexuals. To help him will be his neighbor, nurse

Film Critics from SNCCI: "LA CASA SUL MARE" di Robert Guédiguian

In theatrical release and presented in Venice 74 "THE HOUSE OF THE SEA" by Robert Guédiguian distributed by PARTHENOS was designated Film Critics by the National Syndicate of Italian Film Critics - SNCCI. Grounds: consistent and faithful Author, Guédiguian signing a return to a place, to a group, in a historical phase, along with a pool and a revisitation, questioning the sense of memory and its own place in the world and in society. The broken lines of personal memories meet the streets barred to migrants looking for a better future; his memory, understood as their own

It ends the 11th edition of IRISH FILM FESTIVAL Saturday 24 is Sunday 25 March

Saturday 24 March, the program opens to 15.30 with the screening in the context of the historical section Irish Classic, di INTO THE WEST (Tir-na-nOg - It is forbidden to bring horses into town, 1992). Written by Jim Sheridan and directed by Mike Newell, the film is a modern fairy tale set in the world of Traveler, Irish nomadic ethnic group, with a cast of great actors such as Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, Colm Meaney e Brendan Gleeson. The film will be preceded by short, competing in the Live Action section, YOU’RE NOT A MAN AT ALL di Pádraig Conaty,

The Florida Project premiered Queer Filmfest for Sicily in Palermo and Catania

Another preview of the film by Sicilia Queer filmfest, in the path toward the eighth edition of the Festival to be held in Palermo from 31 May to 6 June 2018 the Cultural Shipyards alla Zisa. In collaboration with Sudtitles, distribution of Sicilia Queer partners, It will be presented 22 March at 20.40 the highly anticipated new film by Sean Baker "The Florida Project", simultaneously all'Igiea Lido di Palermo and the Cinema King of Catania, enlargement to confirm the proposed film in the region Sicilia Queer. The American director is not a new name

The Disney misfires with In Folds of Time directed the visionary, magnetic and surreal Ava DuVernay

In Italian cinemas from 29 March, In the Folds of Time is the latest feature film produced by Disney and directed by visionary filmmaker Ava DuVernay, adapted from the novel written in 1959 by Madeleine L'Engle. The development history of the scene is that of the young Meg Murry, daughter of two world-renowned physicists and with great self-esteem issues, because he not always accepted by his peers at school. His father has mysteriously disappeared for years and his mother is heartbroken. It will be the little brother Charles Wallace, however, to submit to the three young

Film Critics from SNCCI: "FIXEUR" in Adrian Sitaru

Adrian Sitaru’s film “FIXEUR” released by LAB 80 Film Critics has been designated by the National Syndicate of Italian Film Critics - SNCCI. Grounds: A film that confirms the extraordinary season of Romanian cinema, soundings again the moral dilemmas of a country that struggles to change its course, through the ambiguity of a representation between cynicism and denunciation, scoop and information, violated adolescence and dangerous fascinations. Sitaru film company duro, that goes to the heart of the problem.

THE BEST OF CONTEMPORARY IRISH FILM 11th edition of IRISH FILM FESTIVAL

Comes the 11th edition IRISH FILM FESTIVAL, the festival entirely dedicated to the Irish film 21 al 25 March 2018, as usual at the Casa del Cinema in Rome. "While the Irish film continues to grow and surprise, our festival welcomes an increasing number of films and filmmakers who come also from Northern Ireland. The rest, IRISH FILM FESTIVAL has always looked to Ireland as an island artistically united, we were an 'All Ireland' event since its first edition ", says the artistic director Susanna Pellis. IRISH FILM FESTIVAL dedicated, as always, large

Film Critics from SNCCI: "VILLAGES FACES" di Varda e JR

The film "VISAGES VILLAGES" by Agnès Varda and JR distributed by Cineteca di Bologna has been designated Film Critics by the National Syndicate of Italian Film Critics - SNCCI with the following Motivation: A director 89 years and a photographer 34 they prove that art reaches where politics no longer knows where to go, through a France "Invisible" looking faces, stories, landscapes that give a new shape and awareness, combining art and photography, testimony and autobiography. A great documentary that not only illuminates but modifies his

Cinema at the MAXXI, the winners of the Extra Doc Festival

My name is Thomas Amedeo Fago takes the prize Extra Doc CityFest the best new documentary, a diorama of Demetrius Giacomelli the Extra prize for Best Documentary Italian. It took place from 20 January to 14 April 2018 The sixth edition of Cinema at the MAXXI, event that brings the seventh art in one of the most important places dedicated to contemporary expressions within CityFest, The program of cultural events of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma. Chaired by Piera Detassis, and it is produced by MAXXI - National Museum of the Arts

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