Author: fconte

Today, Tuesday, October 24th, the “Il Viaggio in Italia” Award, under the aegis of the Ministry of Tourism and ENIT – the Italian National Tourist Board, was announced at the 18th edition of the Rome Film Fest. The accolade went to The Empire of Nature: the Colosseum Park by Luca Lancise and Marco Gentili. Presented in the Special Screenings section, the film is a Sky and Brandon Box production made in collaboration with the Colosseum Archaeological Park, instituted by the Ministry of Culture. Maria Ciani, Vice Head of Staff at the Ministry of Tourism, handed the award to the filmmaker…

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Postponed to 10 p.m. Oct. 28 in Sala Sinopoli screening of Shira Piven’s The Performance (previously scheduled for 9:30 p.m.).The Performanceby Shira PivenUnited States, 2023, 112’Cast: Jeremy Piven, Robert Carlyle, Maimie McCoy, Adam Garcia, Isaac Gryn, Lara WolfHarold May, a virtuoso tip tap dancer and an American Jew, on a European tour with his troupe, gets an offer from a German that he can’t refuse: a handsome sum for arranging a performance in Berlin. The German doesn’t know that Harold is Jewish; the year happens to be 1937 and, once the troupe arrives in Germany, they learn they will be…

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The eighteenth annual Rome Film Fest has racked up an impressive box office success: on the sixth day of its run, in fact, over 55,000 tickets have been sold, roughly 19,000 more compared with the same period last year. That translates into a 52% increase. The Film Fest continues through Sunday, October 29th, with a wide-ranging programme of premieres, talks, and other events that get the whole city involved. Ticket sales continue online on the website: https://romacinemafest.boxol.it/ as well as at the Auditorium Parco della Musica, the Cinema Giulio Cesare (only for purchases of tickets to screening at the Giulio Cesare),…

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