A Film Festival that instantly captured the attention of a wide-ranging public that includes younger audiences, a leading magazine in the field of new technologies, a museum that has become a running construction site for contemporary creativity: out of this convergence of forces comes WIRED NEXT CINEMA powered by Mazda, the space dedicated by the ninth Rome Film Festival to new audio-visual languages, regardless of genre, length, format. Extending the successful experience of Extra and CinemaXXI, from October 17^th through 26^th, WIRED NEXT CINEMA powered by Mazda will take place in the spaces of the MAXXI (National Museum of the XXI^st Century Arts), with screenings of feature-films, medium and short films produced for cinema and television, meetings and seminars, filmmakers who have made the history of the big screen, and the stars of the web.

WIRED NEXT CINEMA powered by Mazda is a cutting-edge workshop that brings different approaches and experiences together to create an observatory of distinction, in which technology and advanced aesthetics, the enjoyment of images and sound and forms of expression and entertainment, all converge in a blend of mutations, genealogies, hybrids and fertilization. From photography (the new film by Wenders about Salgado, on Sunday 19^th) to the workshop on visual graphics programmes for smartphones (on Friday 17^th), from comedy web series to Italian-style comedy (“The Pills” and Enrico Vanzina, on Monday 20^th); from experimental South-American films to the new online stardom of Maccio Capatonda (on Saturday 18^th); from the relationship to drawing and painting of auteurs such as Bellocchio, Scola and Virzì (Thursday 23^rd) to an encounter with the most ancient of body languages, acting, with actors such as Giorgio Pasotti, and Roberto Herlitzka (Saturday 18^th) Isabella Ferrari, Riccardo Scamarcio (Sunday 26^th). Wired Next Cinema offers an outstanding excursion: a brief but intense journey into everything that in the present day keeps our perceptions alive and our hearts and minds alert.

In addition to the WIRED programme, the MAXXI will also host some of the Special Events of the Rome Film Festival: screenings (i.e. the recently restored digital version of Boccaccio ’70, screened on Thursday 23^rd, and Ricomincio da tre / I’m Starting From Three, on Saturday 25^th), meetings (with Asia Argento on Saturday 18^th, and João Botelhoon Friday 24^th), debates and round-table discussions (on Italian Gothic cinema, on Saturday 25^th, and on the work of Pietro Germi, on Friday 24^th).

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