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At 7 pm in the Sala Sinopoli, two episodes of Strappare lungo i bordi, the first animated series by comic book artist Zerocalcare, will be screened. In a narrative constellated with flashbacks and anecdotes ranging from his childhood to the present day, Zerocalcare tells the story about a journey by train with Sarah and Secco, his long-time friends, towards something very difficult to do. Each chapter in the story builds a piece of a world made of few certainties and indestructible friendships. And when all the pieces are in place, the mosaic will be a surprise for the viewer and the protagonist as well. At the Fest to present the series, Zerocalcare will share with Fest audiences his thoughts on his close ties to cinema.
Two films on the Official Selection lineup will be premiering tomorrow, Monday, October 18th.
At 9:30 pm, the Sala Sinopoli hosts the premiere of The North Sea by John Andreas Andersen, one of Norway’s most famous and most active cinematographers. On Christmas Eve in Norway, in 1969, the government made an announcement that would change the history of the country forever: one of the largest deposits of oil in the world had been discovered in the North Sea. It would be dubbed Ekofisk, and launch an unprecedented financial scramble. From that day, fifty years of experience in the oil field has provided us with abundant opportunities, but it is likely that we still haven’t fully understood the real environmental fallout from this discovery and subsequent operations extracting oil from the North Sea. Should the exploit have a future, or need we consider that fifty years ago, one of the most dangerous weapons of mass destruction in the world was discovered?
At 7:30 pm (Sala Petrassi), the premiere of Hive by Blerta Basholli brings a true story to the screen. Ever since her husband was declared missing in the war in Kosovo, Fahrije and her family – her father-in-law and two children – struggle to deal with the pain and the financial hardship. To provide for her family, she creates and runs a small agricultural business, but in the traditionalist patriarchal village she lives in, her determination and her efforts to emancipate herself and other women are met with animosity and obstruction. Nevertheless, Fahrije does not give up and continues to fight not only to keep her family afloat, but to assert herself against a community that is hostile towards her and is rooting for her to fail.
Among the tributes on the 2021 programme, the Film Fest features a screening of Ciao, Libertini! Gli anni ottanta secondo Pier Vittorio Tondelli by Stefano Pistolini (10:30 pm, Sala Petrassi). “Tondelli identified himself with his writing,” the director explains. “Talking about him to remember him, means reading his words, giving him a second look, listening to his voice, relating it to the voices of those who shared an era and so many experiences with him. The 1980s, the years of “I want it all and now”, now appear distant, naive, capricious, remote, even helpless. Was what we were doing right? Did we see things right? It doesn’t really matter. What is absolutely certain is that we all had an amazing time.”
The MAXXI will be hosting two screenings from the Riflessi slate. The first at 6:30 pm: the presentation of The 20th-century New Town by Dario Biello, a story, told by Alessandro Haber, of technological innovation in a community that was able to reinvent itself, open up to the future, and become the next European Capital of Space. Then at 9:30 pm, the screening of No Tenemos miedo by Manuele Franceschini. 18 October 2019, Santiago in Chile. After decades of discontent, the increase in the cost of public transportation triggers a popular revolt. As scenes of urban guerrilla warfare fill the streets and squares of the country, the repression by the Chilean police becomes brutal.
On October 18th, at 8;45 pm, at the Teatro San Leonardo, Acilia Libri offers a screening of Santa Maradona by Marco Ponti, a title on the programme of screenings arranged by Rome’s independent bookshops.
A Thousand Hours is the film being screened on October 18th at the Teatro Palladium. The film by Carl Moberg starts at 8 pm.
The Film Fest’s Arthur Penn retrospective, curated by Mario Sesti, continues tomorrow at 8:30 pm at the Casa del Cinema, with a screening of Night Moves.
Earlier, the same venue, at 6:30 pm, hosts a screening of X-rated Girl by Pasquale Festa Campanile: “Yet there’s more to the film X-rated Girl than its embarrassingly dated sexism, which the film itself decries without even knowing it: with the same wide-eyed astonishment we behold in Buzzanca’s face,” Sesti explains.
Monday’s repeat screenings in Sala 1 of the My Cityplex Savoy are Promises and One Second, at 6 pm and 9 pm respectively. In Sala 2 of the same theatre, Festgoers can catch Mothering Sunday at 5:30 pm and Becoming Cousteau at 8:30. Over at SCENA, there will be another screening of the film The 20th-century New Town at 5 pm.
