For this 26th edition, the MedFilm Festival opens its doors to everyone. In the year when the unexpected knocked on our doors, MedFilm has found its new language, taking up the challenge to change and making it rich. Thanks to a synergistic partnership with the MYmovies platform, the whole program will be available online to the public from 9 al 20 November. The festival, chaired by Ginella Vocca and directed by Giulio Casadei, this year sees the participation of 70 film, representing 30 countries, of which 38 Italian premiere film,
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SPECIALE # TOKYOIFF33rd – 31 October / November 9 2020 #2 (DAYS 1&2)
The news of the Festival (Photos are published courtesy of the Tokyo International Film Festival) He Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) opened with the screening of Underdog, diretto da Masaharu Take. Interpretato da Mirai Moriyama, Takumi Kitamura e Ryo Katsuji, is Take's first boxing film in six years, gives 100 Yen Love (2014). It describes the lives of three boxers who have been abandoned in life, as they cross their fists in the ring to attempt their return. While Hokusai is the story of the legendary Japanese ukiyo-e artist Katsushika
SPECIALE #TOKYO IFF33rd – 31 October / November 9 2020 #1 (DAY -1)
Hybrid festival with a unique Tokyo Premiere official selection 2020 (Photos are published courtesy of the Tokyo International Film Festival) In times of pandemic even in the presence of the public, the three selections are reunited into a single one to assign only the Audience Award. The New format adopted this year of pandemic emergency will take place with a single selection: Tokyo Premiere 2020 will combine the sections International competition, Asian Future and Japanese Splash Cinema in a single selection. Instead of awarding the usual prizes, TIFF will award an Audience Award to all films
THE SECRET - The hidden truths: the review by Maria Vittoria Battaglia
When the memory fails to forget - un thriller da capogiro È arrivato nelle sale italiane dal 15 October, distributed by Vision Distribution and Cloud 9 Film, THE SECRET - The hidden truths, directed by Yuval Adler with Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman, Chris Messina, Amy Seimetz. Unfortunately, the new contrasting DCPM of COVID19 has interrupted its usability in the room. A whistle. Thus begins the story that Yuval Adler wants to tell us and we immediately find ourselves in the America of the 60s, masterfully represented with pastel colors and soft and warm lights. A whistle
#DO NOTCLOSEICINEMA !
Il Mondo della Cultura lancia un appello affinché si rivedano i recenti provvedimenti restrittivi anti-COVID19 Enti dello spettacolo e artisti in prima linea perché il Ministro Franceschini e il Presidente Conte rivedano i recenti provvedimenti che prevedono da oggi fino al 24 November the closure of theaters and cinemas. In this regard, an open letter was sent with the reasons for the reopening of the rooms. In effetti all’indomani della kermesse romana della Festa del Cinema sembrano incomprensibili le nuove restrizioni che colpiscono pesantemente un settore che stenta a rialzarsi dal lock
#DO NOTCLOSEICINEMA: AFIC WORRY ABOUT FESTIVAL SUSPENSION AND HALLS CLOSURE
We receive and gladly publish by associating ourselves with the contents: "AFIC - Association of Italian Film Festivals while sharing the principles aimed at preserving public health that informed today's Decree of the President of the Council of Ministers, expresses strong concern over the decision to close, for at least a month, cinemas e, Consequently, to suspend film festivals. Our thoughts and closeness naturally go to all the cinematographic events taking place in these hours and to those scheduled, but often rescheduled after the closures of the last lockdown, in the next weeks.
SPECIAL # ROMAFF15 #8 – 15/25 OCTOBER 2020: (DAY 4) Fortuna by Nicolangelo Gelormini - the review by Maria Vittoria
(from Rome Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia - Photos are published courtesy of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma) Narrazione delicata di un caso di violenza su una bambina Ricordo esattamente il 2014 when the news broke the news of Fortuna Loffredo's death in Parco Verde, Caivano, and I remember the dismay of the days that happened when, as the investigation continues, we were all made aware of the circumstances of this death. Fortuna, 6 just years, died after falling from the seventh floor, Delicate narration of a case of violence against a child I remember exactly the
#Cannes2020 at LUMIER FILM FESTIVAL - Lyon 10/ 18 October
The official selection of the Festival de Cannes 2020 at the Lumière Film festival in Lyon together with Cannes Classics 2020 After making its mark at AFCAE festivals, Angoulême, Deauville and San Sebastián, the selected films of the Festival de Cannes 2020 they will stop at the Lumière Film festival in Lyon from 10 al 18 October, before heading to Rome and returning to the Croisette for three exceptional days in late October. Over the course of eight days dedicated to the celebration of past and present cinema, the public and the media will be able to watch the previews of
Paradise a new life by Davide Del Degan: the review by Maria Vittoria Battaglia
An exhilarating lesson in justice and humanity. PARADISE a new life by DAVIDE DEL DEGAN is an Italy - Slovenia co-production, produced by PILGRIM and A ATALANTA with RAI CINEMA, distribuito daFandango Distribuzione e nei cinema dall’8 ottobre Calogero (Vincenzo Nemolato), witness to murder, he was included in the witness protection program and transferred from Sicily to Sauris, a small town on the border between Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Slovenia. who, for a variety of reasons, he will find himself face to face with the same killer again, with which, after a troubled start to say the least,
Alone at my wedding: history of social and psychological distress
From 1 October at the cinema directed by Marta Bergman presented at the ACID section of Cannes and at the Rome Independent Film Festival. Distributed in Italy by CINECLUB INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION. The director, Romanian by birth, she immediately dedicated herself to the documentary, exploring Romania and observing Roma communities. This is his first fiction feature film. Finally, after the stop due to the pandemic, this harrowing story of social and psychological unease arrives in our rooms. It is the story of the young Roma Pamela, single mother, which for itself and for