Day 6 | Screenings

Two films from the Official Selection will be screened tomorrow, Tuesday October 19th, at the Rome Film Fest.

At 6:30 pm, at the MAXXI, there will be a screening of the new film by Kamila Andini, Yuni, the story of an Indonesian adolescent with a brilliant intelligence who dreams of attending university. When two men she barely knows ask for her hand in marriage, she rejects both proposals, triggering rumours and gossip among her people, inspired by a legend that maintains that a woman who refuses three marriage proposals will never marry. The situation becomes even more tense when a third man appears asking for her hand.

In Sala Petrassi at 7:30 pm, the screening will feature Una película sobre parejas by Natalia Cabral and Oriol Estrada. Natalia and Oriol are a couple of thirty year-old directors with a young daughter named Lia. One day they receive an offer to direct a documentary: they decide to make a film about love within a couple, and interview a number of them to understand if they get along and what the most typical problems are. While Natalia and Oriol continue to film, the wounds of their own relationship begin to reopen, and their arguments overlap with their doubts. Finishing the documentary will allow them to reshape the love that unites them and their love for cinema.

At 10:30 pm (Sala Petrassi), the Everybody’s Talking About It space will present the screening of Libertad by Clara Roquet. Fifteen-year-old Nora doesn’t have the slightest idea how she’ll survive another boring summer at the family beach house in Spain. Her grandmother is ill and her younger sister is too young to keep her company. Salvation arrives in the form of Libertad, a young Colombian girl, also fifteen years old, who knows how to deal with boys. The two girls are completely opposites, yet they become close friends in a bond that will shape their adolescence. But Libertad is the housekeeper’s daughter, which means their friendship has to remain a secret.

From the Riflessi lineup, at 9:30 pm in Sala Sinopoli, the screening will feature Crazy for Football – Matti per il calcio, the new film by Volfango De Biasi who returns to the subject of football and solidarity following the success of his documentary of the same name. At the same time, the MAXXI will present Inedita, an intimate portrait of writer Susanna Tamaro, with the director Katia Bernardi and the author herself attending the screening.

Like every year, the Fest pays tribute to personalities from the world of cinema and culture. This year the Fest will commemorate the ninetieth anniversary of the birth of Ettore Scola and the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Nino Manfredi, with the screening of We All Loved Each Other So Much. The film will be screened at 4:30 pm in Sala Petrassi in the version restored by the CSC-Cineteca Nazionale under the direction of Sergio Bruno and Sergio Toffetti, with the supervision of Luciano Tovoli in the laboratories of L’Immagine Ritrovata, from the negatives preserved at the Cineteca Nazionale.

For the fifth year in a row, the collaboration continues between MediCinema Italia Onlus and the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS and the Rome Film Fest, with two films from the official line-up. For this 2021 edition, the screenings return to the movie theatre for the inpatients, observing all the health protocols established to address the Covid-19 emergency. The starting date is tomorrow, Tuesday October 19th at 4 pm, with the screening of Io sono Babbo Natale by Edoardo Falcone, who in this film directs Marco Giallini and Gigi Proietti, in his last remarkable performance. The film will be preceded by a videotaped message of welcome from the President of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, Laura Delli Colli, and will be introduced in the theatre by the director Edoardo Falcone.

Like every year, the Rome Film Fest will host the Rebibbia Festival with screenings, encounters and workshops involving the inmate population, in the venues of the Prison Auditorium and the “Enrico Maria Salerno” Movie Theatre. On October 19th, the screening will feature Io sono Babbo Natale by Edoardo Falcone. Access of the general public to the spaces of the penitentiary is limited to comply with the anti-Covid safety measures. The event is promoted by La Ribalta – Centro Studi Enrico Maria Salerno, Fondazione Cinema per Roma, Provveditorato Regionale Carceri di Lazio, Abruzzo e Molise, with the support of the Regione Lazio and Roma Capitale. Info and reservations: rebibbiafestival@gmail.com.

The Teatro Studio Gianni Borgna (11:30 am) will be the venue for the conference titled “Educational project on the languages of images and sounds”. Roberto Perpignani, Marco Bellocchio, Vittorio Gallese and Pietro Montani will each offer their own perspectives on the fundamental bases of an educational project that seeks to explore “the languages of images and sounds”, reconsidering, without prejudice, both the functional and creative aspects.

The Fest’s retrospective curated by Mario Sesti and dedicated to Arthur Penn continues at 8:30 pm at the Casa del Cinema, with the screening of The Missouri Breaks.

Don Camillo e l’onorevole Peppone by Carmine Gallone, the third episode in the famous saga starring Fernandel and Gino Cervi, is the Film of Our Lives chosen by Valerio Carrocci. The film will be screened at 6 pm at the Casa del Cinema.

At the Teatro Palladium (at 8 pm), audiences are invited to see the film Benny Benassi – Equilibrio by Matt Mitchener, Devin Chanda, Stefano Camurri and Cesare Della Salda.

The independent bookstores in Rome have scheduled a double screening from their line-up: at the Libreria Tomo, at 6:30 pm, Buongiorno notte by Marco Bellocchio. The same film will also be shown at 8:45 pm at the Teatro San Leonardo, sponsored by Acilia Libri.

Six films will be shown in repeat screenings tomorrow. At 5 pm and at 9 pm, at SCENA, IONOI, and Marina Cicogna – La vita e tutto il resto; at 5:30 pm and 8:30 pm, the My Cityplex Savoy will host Hive and Ciao Libertini! Gli anni ottanta secondo Pier Vittorio Tondelli in Sala 2, Strappare lungo i bordi and The North Sea, in Sala 1 at 6 pm and at 9 pm.