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SHOWCASE OF YOUNG ITALIAN FILMMAKERS
In keeping with its commitment to support emerging Italian cinema, the Department of Youth of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, with the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, besides continuing workshop activities within the New Cinema Network, is this year inaugurating a Showcase of Young Italian Filmmakers at the sixth International Rome Film Festival.
The showcase aims to help young, creative, independent cinema, which faces great difficulties in finding distribution and reaching audiences, and offers greater visibility for the most worthy films. The event will screen ten feature films by young directors, from October 28th to November 2nd, at the Elsa Morante Cultural Center, as part of the Festival. The winner of the Audience Award for Best Film will be screened at the Auditorium Parco della Musica on November 4th, the day of the Festival’s closing awards ceremony.

THE ELSA MORANTE CULTURAL CENTER
Completed in 2010, the Elsa Morante Cultural Center was built as a cultural space in the Laurentino neighborhood, one of the hubs of the circuit of cultural centers on Rome’s outskirts that are currently being constructed by the Dipartimento per le Periferie. The center was built upon a site destined as a public parking lot, which was never used. It comprises three pavilions: the first features teaching spaces and a café; the second houses youth orientation activities, visual art exhibits, book presentations and screenings of music videos and short films; the third is a multipurpose theatre also equipped with a screen for screenings in an outdoor arena that seats 350 people. All the three buildings were conceived as flexible open spaces that can be re-utilized in a multitude of ways. Each building has a terrace that can host small, outdoor events (readings, cocktails, book presentations).
Centro Culturale Elsa Morante - Piazzale Elsa Morante
Open Monday-Friday 9 am – 7 pm – Saturday 9 am – 1 pm
Available Saturdays and Sundays for special event programming
www.centroelsamorante.roma.it - www.autopromozionesociale.it - tel. 065021181

 
Amore liquido
by Marco Luca Cattaneo – Italia – 2010 - 90’

L'angelo di Alfredo
by Fabio Marra – Italy – 2011 - 53’

Appartamento ad Atene
by Ruggero Dipaola, Italy, 2011 - 95’

Esterno sera
by Barbara Rossi Prudente – Italy – 2011 - 101’

Et in terra pax
by Matteo Botrugno and Daniele Coluccini -  Italy – 2010 - 89’

Interno giorno
by Tommaso Rossellini – Italy – 2011 - 90’

Silver Case
by Christian Filippella – Italy – 2011 – 85’

La strada verso casa
by Samuele Rossi - Italy – 2011 - 81’

La terra negli occhi
by Gaia Adducchio – Italy – 2010 - 60’

La via di mio padre
by Luigi Maria Perotti – Italy – 2011 - 76’
 

OFF DOC AT THE CASA DEL CINEMA
Having grown up with the Festival and gone through protean titles (Roma Doc, Percorso), the space–area–laboratory to which Extra invites “sweepers,” consummate filmmakers (such as Gianfranco Pannone, Luca Verdone, Theo Eshetu and Corso Salani, the latter’s memory to which Off Doc was entirely dedicated in 2010), media professionals and young newcomers, to present the documentary in all its various forms (investigation, essay, reportage, anecdote, docu-fiction, mockumentary, and so forth), is an event that attracts increasing attention from audiences and critics alike.
Extra is also both an experiment in decentralization (held as it is outside the Auditorium, at the Casa del Cinema) and an exploration of new territories, in keeping with the very nature of the section, whose primary vocation since the inception of the Festival has been the perception of cinema from one extreme to the other. Here, audiences will find all that which is increasingly harder to find in traditional films, and almost impossible to find elsewhere: surprising biographies, the rediscovery of renowned places, popular investigations, show business legends, local micro-stories.
The documentary – or “Doc” (like the nickname of main characters from several immortal westerns), an old friend that never abandoned cinema even though he was often watching from the sidelines – is not only a tool for casting an intense light onto little-known places (such as schools, jail and convents). It also portrays our lives from up close, like a family photo album, or introduces us to people who have deeply shaped the collective imagination (great, popular painters, actors, song-writers, without whom our very lives would have been different). Off Doc is a venue for a genre that began cinema and is now profoundly revitalizing it.

Antonio + Silvana = 2
by Vanni Gandolfo, Simone Aleandri, Luca Onorati - Italy, 2011 - 70’

La casa dei bambini
by Marco Turco – Italy – 2011 - 60’

Casco in volo
by Gianluca Greco – Italy – 2011 - 51’

Ho visto cose
by Chiara Pacilli, Maurizio Tedesco – Italy – 2011 - 30’

In arte Lilia Silvi
by Mimmo Verdesca - Italy, 2011 - 65’

Io sono il teatro: Arnoldo Foà raccontato da Foà
by Cosimo Damiano Damato – Italy – 2011 - 60’

KILLER PLASTIC-o. Tu ti faresti entrare?
by Stefano Pistolini – Italy – 2011 - 78’

Piero Guccione, verso l’infinito
by Nunzio Massimo Nifosì – Italy – 2011 - 75’

Il pranzo di Natale
based on an idea by Antonietta De Lillo – Italy – 2011- 50’

Renato Carosone: un americano a Napoli
by Fabrizio Bancale – Italy – 2011 - 50’

Viaggio nel bullismo
by Roberto Citran, Gianni Ferraretto, Italy, 2011, 50’

Il volto della medusa  
by Donata Gallo – Italy – 2011 - 60’
 
 
FIRST UNIVERSITY SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
The first edition of the University Short Film Festival is promoted by iUniversity with backing from Mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno, Councillor for Cultural Policies Dino Gasperini, and the Office of the Mayor’s Delegate for Relations with the University of Rome, Marco Siclari, in collaboration with the Fondazione Cinema per Roma.
The project gives students a chance to flex their creative muscles by making a short film (on DVD and no longer than 15 minutes) on the subject “The value of life”, with specific references to the world of young people and their social and professional prospects. An ad hoc committee of film professionals and university professors will present the top three filmmakers, selected from the numerous competition entrants, with scholarships offered by the City of Rome. The University Short Film Festival will be held at the Casa del Jazz the week before the International Rome Film Festival. The winning short and the first ten runners-up will moreover be screened during the International Rome Film Festival. The goal of the shorts festival is to channel and comprehend the frame of mind, frailties, expectations, strengths and needs of the younger generations, in order to sensitize institutions, families and policy makers. As well as offer an important opportunity to young, aspiring film directors.  
www.iuniversityroma.it

CASA DEL JAZZ
The Casa del Jazz is a Roman jazz venue located in viale di Porta Ardeatina on extensive grounds. It features three buildings with different functions. The main building, with its multipurpose auditorium seating 150 people, is used for live concerts, screenings, and meetings. A recording system allows for the production of CDs that “immortalize” the events and publicize the Casa del Jazz concerts and other initiatives. A well-stocked audiovisual archive is situated in the same building, with multimedia stations for easy consultation, as well as a library. The second building hosts a rehearsal and recording studio and lodgings for guest musicians, while the third is a restaurant.
There is a fascinating story behind the Casa del Jazz: once belonging to Enrico Nicoletti, the head of Rome’s notorious criminal organization, the Magliana Gang, the villa was confiscated and turned over to the city of Rome, a victory for civil society commemorated by a plaque at the entrance bearing the names of the victims of the Mafia, in a joint collaboration with the association “Libera”.
www.casajazz.it


MAXXI CINEMA AND ART
The MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts is partnering with the International Rome Film Festival for its sixth edition and will be hosting a number of important events.
A VIDEO ART MARATHON
On November 3rd at the Auditorium Parco della Musica, The Extra Section is arranging an evening event devoted to contemporary art, the result of a partnership between the MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Art and CortoArteCircuito, a non–profit cultural association under the artistic direction of Beatrice Bordone Bulgari. The event will be repeated, with the addition of films from the MAXXI B.A.S.E. archives, on November 5th at the MAXXI Auditorium, from 6 pm to 10 pm. The videos introduce artists in the museum’s collection as well as its exhibition activities, in a marathon entirely dedicated to documentaries and short films about architecture and contemporary art.
MAXXI Auditorium / November 5th, from 6 pm to 10 pm / Admission 4 euros


THE TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY FILM SCHOOL
Tel Aviv University (TAU), with the association “Amici dell’Università di Tel Aviv”, presents a series of shorts by students of the TAU Department of Film and Television. Although this is the first time that the TAU film school is present at the International Rome Film Festival, in the last four years alone the school’s films have garnered over 100 awards and six nominations and were screened in festivals worldwide. Having trained directors such as Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir), Yaron Shani (co-director of Ajami) and Eytan Fox (Walk On Water, The Bubble), TAU has significantly contributed to stimulating Israel’s film and TV industry. The six selected shorts will screen November 3rd at the MAXXI Museum, followed by an awards ceremony. The student filmmakers will have a chance to speak with an international audience and the winner will receive a scholarship.


THE OTOLITH GROUP. THE FORM OF THOUGHT
Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun: that is the Otolith Group, a collective of English artists who produce videos and films that offer a critical reworking of recent history. Finalists for the 2010 Turner Prize, the Otoliths are the subject of a MAXXI exhibition that represents a first for Italy. Photography, cinema, music, and images from contemporary politics and society are all intertwined in the works of the collective founded in London in 2002; viewers are drawn into a world that mixes past and present, fiction and reality. The exhibition retraces the history of the collective with cross-references to auteur cinema, Chris Marker’s essay films, and the works of Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Harun Farocki. Contemporary cities, futuristic settings, images retrieved from historic archives alternate to form a complex geography of thought.
Curated by Chus Martinez, coordinated by Monia Trombetta, The exhibition has been organized by MACBA – Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, in a co-production between the two institutions.
The MAXXI – National Museum of the XXI Century Arts / October 7th  2011 – February 5th  2012
Tuesday – Wednesday – Friday – Sunday 11 am – 7 pm
Thursday – Saturday 11 am – 10 pm
Monday closed