10/05/2010

Giorgio Diritti’s The Man Who Will Come [+see also:
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interview: Filippo Timi - actor
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Paolo Virzì’s La Prima Cosa Bella [+see also:
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Loose Cannons [+see also:
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Valerio Mieli won Best Debut Director for Ten Winters [+see also:
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film profile] while Giuseppe Tornatore’s Baaria [+see also:
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The awards ceremony was marked by a protest from Centoautori movement against the government’s budget cuts and its negligible sensitivity to the industry’s problems. On the eve of the ceremony producer Domenico Procacci denounced the scant competence of the majority of the 1,592-member of the prestigious prize.

(Translated from Italian)