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The screening of Serre-moi fort by Mathieu Amalric will be held on Wednesday 15 September at 9 pm thanks to the support of Fondazione Cinema per Roma. The film will open the new Villa Medici Film Festival, organized by the French Academy in Rome for those artists and filmmakers who are dedicated to exploring contemporary film practices. Serre-moi fort will screen at Villa Medici – viale della Trinità dei Monti 1, Rome – in the presence of director Mathieu Amalric, introduced by Laura Delli Colli, President of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, and Sam Stourdzé, director of The French Academy in Rome.Info and Ticket office

The series “Stories of women” organized by the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, celebrates the finest expressions of filmmaking by women. The five selected works, all presented at the last two editions of the Rome Film Fest, will be screened at the Laghetto dell’Eur (Rome) as part of the TIMVISION Floating Theatre Summer Fest, conceived and organised by Alice nella città in collaboration with Eur SPA.PROGRAMME The selected works were successfully presented in the last two editions of Rome Film Fest.- 25 June at 9 pm MALEDETTA PRIMAVERA by Elisa Amoruso- 17 July at 9 pm DEUX by Filippo Meneghetti- 25…

The fourth edition of Extra Doc Festival, the competition dedicated to the best works by Italian documentary filmmmakers, ended with the bestowing of two main awards: “Best Italian Documentary Of the Year” to We Are the Thousand. The incredible story of Rockin ‘1000 by Anita Rivaroli, and “Extra Doc CityFest” Award to Disco Ruin – 40 years of Italian Club Culture by Lisa Bosi and Francesca Zerbetto.The prizes were assigned by the Extra Doc Festival jury, chaired by director Agostino Ferrente and composed by editor Esmeralda Calabria, journalist and film critic Fulvia Caprara, artist Gea Casolaro, journalist Virman Cusenza and…

The retrospective of the sixteenth edition of the Film Fest, curated by Mario Sesti, will be dedicated to Arthur Penn, one of the most beloved and representative authors in the history of cinema. Over the decades, the U.S. director and producer has been able to bring the contradictions of contemporary society to the big screen – but also to television and theater – adding the social and political responsibility of the artist to the ability and pleasure of telling stories.   Download Press ReleaseDownload

In the Official Selection, the Rome Film Fest will present an exclusive selection of no more than 40 films. In addition to the films in the Official Selection, there will be preview screenings of films not included in the Official Selection, special events, Close Encounters, master classes, retrospectives, re-editions of classic films, exhibitions.Only the films in the Official Selection can compete for the People’s Choice Award.In order to be considered for selection, films must be submitted no later than August 4th 2021. COMPLETE REGULATION La Festa del Cinema si racconta come mai prima d’ora READ

Accreditation for the 16th edition of the Rome Film Fest (October 14 – 24, 2021), organized by the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, is reserved to film industry professionals and press, postgraduate students, film culture associations and organizations.Accreditation applications for the 2021 edition should be submitted before September 30th.For more information: FEST ACCREDITATION La Festa del Cinema si racconta come mai prima d’ora ENTER PRESS ACCREDITATION La Festa del Cinema si racconta come mai prima d’ora ENTER

The London-based writer, one of the loudest and most powerful voices of her generation, will retrace her twenty-year career in front of a festival audience: her first novel, “White teeth” (Mondadori), was published in 2000 and became a literary world sensation. In the following years, she wrote “The Autograph Man”, “On Beauty”, “NW” and “Swing Time”, through which she tackled contemporary issues with great irony and depth, bringing out the most painful aspects of reality. Since 2010 Zadie Smith has been teaching at the New York University. She works on a regular basis with the “New York Times” and the…

Rome Film Fest will 2021 celebrate Tim Burton by awarding him a Lifetime Achievement Award. On that occasion, the American director, screenwriter, producer and animator will be the protagonist of a Close Encounter with the public during which he will retrace the main stages of his artistic career: since the second half of the 80s, he has been considered one of the most original filmmakers in the U.S. film industry, the one who can bring an immediately recognizable visual universe to the big screen. From Batman to Edward Scissorhands, from Ed Wood to Corpse Bride, from Big Fish to Sweeney…

The 2021 Rome Film Fest will celebrate this genius with a Lifetime Achievement Award event and with a Close Encounter that will see him engaged in a conversation with the public. Cult director and screenwriter, Quentin Tarantino has been able to revolutionize exploitation films and b-movies by manipulating the plot – in completely new and certainly innovative ways – thus regularly upsetting the traditional narrative structure of a story. He achieved success thanks to his debut film, Reservoir Dogs, followed by Jackie Brown, Kill Bill vol. 1, Kill Bill vol. 2, Inglourious Basterds – up to his latest work, Once…

The 16th Rome Film Fest will take place from October 14 to 24, 2021.   With its red carpet, halls and Theatres, Auditorium Parco della Musica has been the hub of Rome Film Fest since 2006. Like every year, the fest will be held  in many other places and cultural locations in the Capital City too, such as MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Casa del Cinema, Rebibbia Prisons, the Independent Libraries in Rome, and movie theatres throughout the City. The full program will be announced during the official press conference on Wednesday, October 6. Among the first sneak previews: two…