The fifth edition of the International Rome Film Festival will be conferring for the first time the Special Award of the President of the Republic to one of the sixteen films in competition in the Official Selection. The acknowledgement will be conferred to the film which will best emphasize human and social values. The Special Award of the President of the Republic will be conferred by the international jury – presided by Sergio Castellito and composed by Natalia Aspesi, Ulu Grosbard, Patrick McGrath, Edgar Reitz and Olga Sviblova – during the Festival’s official award ceremony which will be held on 5th November at 6: 30 p.m., in the Sala Sinopoli at the Auditorium Parco della Musica.