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After his Midlands trilogy, shot entirely in Northern England, director Shane Meadows presented his latest (competition) film, This is England, along with actors Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham and Jo Hartley, producer Mark Herbert and the film’s Italian composer, Ludovico Einaudi. The film tells the story of a summer in the life of 12 year-old Shaun, whose father has died in the Falklands War and who begins hanging out with a group of skinheads. 1983 England plays a fundamental role in the story of This is England, a portrait of the country during the Thatcher years. “I’d wanted to make a…

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The day after the Q&A with Leonardo DiCaprio, another encounters follows at the Theatre of Tor Bella Monaca (a working class neighbourhood on the outskirts of Rome) and the packed stage features a part of what has been called a number of times “the best of youth of Italian cinema”: Silvio Muccino, Riccardo Scamarcio, Jasmine Trinca and Cristiana Capotondi.The crowd in front of the theatre resembles a rock concert audience: the barricades are teeming with teenage girls screaming at their idols. Like a true rock star, Muccino stops along the red carpet to take a few pictures with his cell…

The first Italian film presented in the Cinema 2006 competition of the RomeFilmFest, L’aria salata by Alessandro Angelini, was well received by Italian critics. In the film, Fabio (Giorgio Pasotti) is a young educator who works to reintegrate prisoners into society. In jail, an encounter with Sparti (Giorgio Colangeli) forces Fabio to face a family past that he has erased, as well as confront his sister Cristina (Michela Cescon).Angelini, Pasotti, Cescon, Colangeli, Katy Saunders, screenwriter Angelo Carbone, composer Luca Tozzi and Carlo Macchitella and Donatella Botti (of RAI Cinema and Bianca Film, respectively) described how the project came to be…

“It is difficult to speak of cinema on a day like today,” said Monica Bellucci during the presentation of the film The Stone Council by Guillaume Nicloux, referring to the dramatic accident in Rome’s Metro. Her role in the film is an unusual one for “La Bellucci”, both for its dramatic nature and her image: short hair and feminine, not at all sensual or provocative.“The director wanted me to be more French than Mediterranean,” said the actress, who plays Laura, who discovers unexpected strengths and a readiness to sacrifice herself for her adopted son. After suffering from hallucinations, Laura loses…

There were 230 international buyers and sellers, six Italian sellers, and over 300 accredited guests at the Business Street market, for a constant stream of screenings of the numerous video libraries in Via Veneto and in the screening rooms of the Westin Excelsior Hotel. On the international front, the majority of important film rights companies were present in Rome, as well as production and distribution companies from throughout the world. All of the Italian international sales companies were present – Adriana Chiesa Enterprises, Intramovies and RAI Trade – along with Italian buyers Medusa, RAI Cinema, BIM Distribution, Mikado, Lucky Red…