The 10th Rome Film Fest presents today the premiere of Sergio Rubini’s latest film, Dobbiamo parlare (Wednesday, October 21 at 7:30 p.m., Sala Sinopoli). The actor, writer and director – whose credits over a 30-year-long career include twelve feature films as director and over sixty films as an actor directed by the likes of Sergio Citti, Giuseppe Tornatore, Gabriele Salvatores, and Mario Monicelli – brings a stirring meditation on love and its dark underside to the screen: an argument over one partner’s cheating leads two couples to confront their relationships in an endless series of accusations, recriminations and buried resentments that emerge over the course of one long night. Which of the two couples, when morning comes, will have survived? Sergio Rubini, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Isabella Ragonese, and Maria Pia Calzone will walk the red carpet at 7 p.m.

At 10 p.m., the Sala Sinopoli hosts the premiere of another film in the Official Selection: The End of the Tour by James Ponsoldt. In 1996, shortly after the publication of his revolutionary novel “Infinite Jest”, acclaimed author David Foster Wallace (played by Jason Segal) agreed to a five-day interview with journalist David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg), a correspondent for the magazine Rolling Stone. As days go by, a tenuous yet significant relationship develops between interviewer and interviewee.

Three more screenings in the Official Selection are on the programme today:

At 8 p.m. in the Sala Petrassi, the premiere of the first two episodes of the hotly-awaited TV series “Fargo 2”, the second season of a series that has revolutionized the crime drama genre, bringing to the small screen the narrative elegance and cynical splendour of the Coen brothers’ noir films. The series – which will air starting December 22 on Sky Atlantic HD – is directed by Randall Einhorn, a Primetime Emmy Award nominee for “Survivor” and the creator (together with Bill Prady), executive producer and director of “The Muppets”.

At 10:30 p.m., Sala Petrassi hosts the screening of Monogamish, the most recent documentary by independent filmmaker Tao Ruspoli, who, fresh from a divorce, decides to talk of love, sex and monogamy in our culture, and does so with his relatives, and with editorial consultants, psychologists, historians, not to mention anthropologists, artists, and philosophers, sex workers, sex therapists and ordinary couples as well. The results of his research into sex, love and monogamy are surprising.

At 9:30 p.m. in the Teatro Studio Gianni Borgna, the screening of Little Birdby the young Russian filmmaker Vladimir Beck, director of Bez kozhi (Skinless), which has won numerous awards in Russia. Beck’s second feature film is a look at love and the enigmatic universe of emotions that well up between childhood and adolescence, a mixture of unfamiliar, all-consuming feelings that overwhelm the protagonists and lure them away from reality, holding them hostage.

The 10th Rome Film Fest celebrates the lives and careers of Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, the two extraordinary Tuscan filmmakers who have brought their own unique style to international film. Their own works have screened at the world’s leading festivals, starting with their debut effort, The Subversives, which screened at the Venice Film Festival; films like Father and Master, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes; and up to their recent Caesar Must Die, winner of the Golden Bear at Berlin. As a tribute to the two directors, who won the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, in the Teatro Studio Gianni Borgna at 5 p.m., the Rome Film Fest will be screening the documentary La passione e l’utopia, which Mario Canale has devoted to the places and the passions that distinguish the Taviani brothers’ oeuvre; an overview in motion of a sixty-year-long love affair with film. The tribute will be rounded out by “The Jar”, a segment of the film Kaos, (at 6 p.m. in the Sala Trevi), inspired by Luigi Pirandello’s Short Stories for a Year; the Taviani brothers have set their segment in a dry, dusty and desolate Sicilian landscape. Two of the stars of this anthology film that won a David di Donatello and a Silver Ribbon for best screenplay were Italian comic duo Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia, in their last joint appearance on the screen.

On today’s program for the retrospective “A Journey into the World of Pixar”, at 3 p.m. the Teatro Studio Gianni Borgna hosts the screening of A Bug’s Life, followed at 5 p.m. (Mazda Cinema Hall) by Cars 2 by Brad Lewis and John Lasseter, introduced by the short film Hawaiian Vacation by Gary Rydstrom.

The Pablo Larraín retrospective, jointly organized by the MAXXI and the Chilean Embassy in Rome, continues in the MAXXI Auditorium with its third screening: Post Mortem, at 9:30 p.m.

At 5:30 p.m. at the Casa del Cinema, Mario Tozzi – the CNR researcher, geologist, and popular scientist – will be introducing the screening of Racing Extinction by Academy Award-winning director Louie Psihoyos. Tozzi will treat audiences to his ideas on the future of our planet and our own individual opportunities to contribute to protecting Earth and taking care of our environment. Later on, at 9 p.m., the Casa del Cinema will host a screening of Luigi Magni’s La Tosca, on the “Films of Our Lives” programme.

At the Cinema Greenwich at 9 p.m., the “Hidden City” programme features a screening of Toni D’Angelo’s Filmstudio Mon Amour. This documentary reconstructs the 45-year-long story of Italy’s first film club, from 1967 to the present, and focuses on its habitués in interviews with actors, directors, event managers, politicians, and film critics. Earlier at the Cinema Greenwich, at 6:30 p.m., festivalgoers can catch a repeat screening of the Official Selection’s These Daughters of Mine by Kinga Debska.

The Rome Film Fest offers other repeat screenings of films in the Official Selection today at the Cinema Eden: at 4 p.m., Angry Indian Goddesses by Pan Nalin; at 6 p.m., The Confessions of Thomas Quick by Brian Hill; at 8 p.m., Land ofMine by Martin Zandvliet, and at 10:30 p.m., Ville-Marie by Guy Édoin.

More repeat screenings in store at the Nuovo Cinema Aquila: at 8 p.m., the film Les Rois du monde, from the Official Selection; and at 4 p.m. Kent Jones’ film tribute Hitchcock/Truffaut.

Alice nella città, the independent sidebar devoted to youth-oriented cinema, has four screenings on the programme today. At 11 a.m., the Sala Sinopoli hosts the premiere of Iqbal: bambini senza paura by Michel Fuzellier and Babak Payami, while also at 11 a.m., the Mazda Cinema Hall hosts a screening of Returning Home by filmmaker Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken. Game Therapy by Ryan Travis will be screening at the Sala Sinopoli at 4:30 p.m. Lastly, at 10 p.m. at the Nuovo Cinema Aquila, festivalgoers can catch the screening of Julia Kowalski’s Raging Rose.