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Tomorrow, Friday October 21st, the Fest will present Amsterdam by David O. Russell, from the Grand Public section. The film will be screened at 6:30 pm in Sala Sinopoli of the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone.
At 4 pm in the same theatre, there will be a preview screening of Gym Class by Stefano Cipani. In his sophomore film, the director addresses yet another “sensitive “topic – following My Brother Chases Dinosaurs – concerning a terrible act of which three underage boys are accused. Based on the play La Palestra by Giorgio Scianna and adapted for the screen by the D’Innocenzo brothers, Gym Class is a tense, closed-room drama, inspired by such courtroom classics as Sidney Lumet’s 12 Angry Men.
In the Best of 2022 section, the Fest presents Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund, winner of the 2022 Palme d’Or in Cannes: the screening will be held at 9:30 pm in Sala Petrassi. The director is the author of a grotesque collage, patterned on his previous films such as Force Majeure and The Square (also winner of the Palme d’Or).
In the Special Screenings section (at 9:30 pm in Sala Sinopoli), the featured film will be Kill Me If You Can by Alex Infascelli. It tells the story of Raffaele Minichiello, who committed the longest hijacking in history.
At 7 pm in Sala Petrassi, the Special Screenings will present Ora tocca a noi – Storia di Pio La Torre by Walter Veltroni. Forty years ago, on the morning of April 30th 1982, Pio La Torre, a politician, union leader, and regional secretary of the Italian Communist Party in Sicily was assassinated along with his friend and assistant Rosario Di Salvo as they were headed to their office in Palermo.
The Progressive Cinema Competition will close tomorrow, Friday October 21st, with the screening of The Hotel by Wang Xiaoshuai and In A Land That No Longer Exists by Aelrun Goette. The new film by Wang Xiaoshuai, a leading director in what is known as the sixth generation of Chinese filmmakers, will be presented in the Teatro Studio Gianni Borgna at 7:30 pm.
The film will be followed at 10 pm in the same theatre by A Land That No Longer Exists, the first fiction film by Aelrun Goette: a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, thanks to a photo of hers that randomly appeared in Sibylle (the East’s Vogue), a seventeen-year old from East Berlin is catapulted into the world of fashion. Set among photographers, models, new ideas and lifestyles, the film is based on a true story.
Two films from the Freestyle section are on the day’s roster. At 5 pm, the MAXXI will hold the screening of Jane Campion, la femme cinéma by Julie Bertuccelli: a self-portrait in the form of a portrait, accompanied only by the words of Jane Campion borrowed from the many interviews that the filmmaker from New Zealand always generously conceded, ranging from autobiography to the analysis of her films. To celebrate the work and career of Jane Campion, the Rome Film Fest will also host a Paso Doble at 7 pm, again at the MAXXI, titled “Viva Jane Campion!”: the encounter with the public will feature the director Julie Bertuccelli and the actress Valentina Cervi, selected by Campion at the age of nineteen for the cast of Portrait of a Lady.
At 9 pm, the MAXXI will host the screening of La croce e la svastica by Giorgio Treves, which tells a little-known story about the persecution and deportation of European Christians by the Nazi regime.
At 4:30 pm in Sala Petrassi, Paolo Virzì, one of the most acclaimed and award-winning Italian directors, will be the protagonist of an encounter with the public during which he will talk about his debut film, La bella vita (1994). Thanks to this work, presented at the Fest in a special “director’s cut” version restored by Motorino Amaranto and the Cineteca di Bologna, Virzì won the David di Donatello and the Nastro d’argento as Best Emerging Director.
At 2:30 pm in the Teatro Studio Gianni Borgna (free admission), CONAI – the National Packaging Consortium, will present the world premiere preview of Tutto si trasforma by Alessandro Lucente, a docufilm about the first twenty-five years in the Consortium’s history. The ante-litteram circular economy came into being twenty-five years ago in Italy, when the CONAI system was instituted to develop differentiated waste collection and the processes for recycling waste from packaging made of steel, aluminium, paper, wood, plastic, bioplastic and glass. The docufilm Tutto si trasforma reviews the genesis and early successes, in images from the archives and exclusive interviews with politicians, entrepreneurs, researchers and experts. The film will be introduced by the director and by Luca Ruini (president of CONAI), Giandomenico Mosco (Full Professor of Commercial Law in the Law School of the Università Luiss Guido Carli in Rome), Edo Ronchi (former Minister of the Environment, now President of Asvis Fondazione per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile), Laura d’Aprile (Head of the Department of Sustainable Development at the Ministry of the Ecological Transition – MITE), Marco Ravazzolo (Head of Environmental Policy Confindustria).
At 5 pm, also at the Teatro Studio Gianni Borgna, the event titled “Giovanna Cau – L’avvocatessa del Cinema” will be held with free admission. The Rome Film Fest commemorates the figure of Giovanna Cau and promotes a prize in her honour. An acknowledgment that will offer opportunities for young Law graduates interested in studying and exploring the same field in which she was the absolute protagonist for so many years. Talking about it with the audience will be Alessandra Bartoleschi, Anna Contardi, Carlo Degli Esposti, Gianni Di Gregorio, Gian Luca Farinelli, Felice Laudadio, Luisa Laurelli, Dacia Maraini, Guendalina Ponti, Georgette Ranucci, Francesco Rutelli, Luciano Sovena, Marco Spagnoli, Walter Veltroni, Nicola Zingaretti, Laura Delli Colli.
At 3:30 pm, the MAXXI will host a meeting about international film distributors, as part of the series titled “Dialogues on the future of Italian cinema”. The guest speakers on the panel will be Paola Corvino (Intramovies), Gianluca Curti (Minerva Pictures), Gaetano Maiorino (True Colours), Catia Rossi (Vision Distribution), Michael Weber (The Match Factory).
Sala Cinecittà at the Casa Del Cinema will host two documentaries in the programme of the History of Cinema section. At 6:45 pm (Sala Cinecittà), the screening will feature Pasolini, Chronology of a Political Crime by Paolo Fiore Angelini, which reconstructs the true story of Pasolini’s murder in interviews and material from the archives. At 9:15 pm, the film will be I magnifici 4 della risata, which features gags, backstage footage and interviews to reconstruct that period in cinema and the comedic mechanisms that led to the smashing success of Roberto Benigni, Francesco Nuti, Massimo Troisi and Carlo Verdone. Both films will be introduced by their respective directors.
Also in Sala Cinecittà, at 3:30 m, there will be a screening of The Magliari by Francesco Rosi in the version restored on the occasion of the one-hundredth anniversary of the great director’s birth.
Three films are in the programme tomorrow, Friday October 21st, for the retrospective “Ms. Woodward & Mr. Newman”: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by Paul Newman (at 11am in Sala Cinecittà), The Verdict by Sidney Lumet (at 6:15 pm in Sala Cinecittà) and a repeat screening of Sometimes a Great Notion by Paul Newman (at 8:45 pm in Sala Kodak).
The Casa del Cinema will also host (at 4:30 pm) a repeat screening of the sixth episode in The Last Movie Stars by Ethan Hawke.
Following the October 18th event, Medicinema will again join the seventeenth Rome Film Fest at the Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS. At 4 pm, there will be a screening of La Stranezza, the new film by Roberto Andò, with a surprising cast that stars Toni Servillo, Salvatore Ficarra and Valentino Picone.
The same film will be shown at 7:30 pm in Palazzo Migliori, the Pope’s Home for the Poor, which following last year’s experience, will again host an event from the Rome Film Fest thanks to the donation of a video-screening system by the Film Commission Roma Lazio and the Regione Lazio.
For the first time, the Casa Circondariale prison in Latina will host the special screening of a film from the Rome Film Fest: at 9:30 am, Il Principe di Roma by Edoardo Falcone.
On Friday October 21st, the programme of repeat screenings at the Cinema Giulio Cesare movie theatre will open in Sala 1 with Souvenir D’Italie (at 4 pm) and will continue with The Hotel (at 8 pm) and In A Land That No Longer Exists (at 10:30 pm). In Sala 3 the screenings will feature Gym Class (at 4:30 pm) and Kill Me If You Can (at 10 pm) while Sala 5 will present Bassifondi (at 5 pm), Amsterdam (at 7 pm) and Triangle of Sadness (at 10 pm). Finally, Sala 7 invites the public for the repeat screening of ABOrismi, ritratti e autoritratto and Bice Lazzari – Il Ritmo e l’ossessione (at 12:30 pm), Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot (at 4 pm) and Ora tocca a noi – Storia di Pio La Torre (at 9 pm).
The Teatro Palladium, at 8:30 pm, will screen the film in Competition El Caso Padilla by Pavel Giroud.
Double feature at Scena with Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot by William Kentridge and Polanski, Horowitz. Hometown by Mateusz Kudła and Anna Kokoszka-Romer respectively at 6:30 pm and 9 pm.
At the Nuovo Cinema Sacher, audiences are invited to the repeat screening at 4:30 pm of El Caso Padilla, at 6:15 pm of Drei Frauen Und Der Krieg and at 9 pm of Il Colibrì by Francesca Archibugi.
The collaboration continues between the AGIS and ANEC movie theatres and the Rome Film Fest. The Nuovo Cinema Aquila will screen three films: Souvenir d’Italie (at 5:30 pm), Bassifondi (at 7:30 pm) with the participation of director Trash Secco and the stars Romano Talevi and Gabriele Silli, and The Dead Remain With Their Mouth Open (at 9:30 pm).
Two independent bookstores are involved in today’s programme: Libreria Via Piave and Libreria Alquando will host screenings of Roma Isola Aperta by Monkeys Video Labs, respectively at 6 pm and at 8 pm.
