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Vittoria Scarpa


1909 articles available in total starting from 01/03/2007. Last article published on 04/06/2025.

Interview: Bujar Alimani • Director

"Albania seeks the path to Europe"

Interview with the Albanian director, whose debut feature Amnesty won the Cineuropa Award at the Lecce Film Festival 2011.  

26/04/2011

Interview: Nanni Moretti • Director

“A sense of inadequacy behind all cardinals elected Pope”

The director met with the Italian press in Rome, the day before the Italian release of We Have a Pope and a month before its presentation in competition at Cannes 2011.  

21/04/2011

Habemus papam

A pope overwhelmed by his new responsibility and a psychoanalyst called to the rescue in the new film by Italian maestro Nanni Moretti who stars alongside Michel Piccoli.  

21/04/2011 | Films | Reviews

Regional film guarantee fund launched in Piedmont

A new film production fund has been instituted in Piedmont Region as an incentive for film companies to invest in the territory. Combining tax incentives that should be reinstated on the national...  

21/04/2011 | Funding | Italy

Rohrwacher, Mastandrea fall in love for Soldini

Alba Rohrwacher and Valerio Mastandrea will star in Silvio Soldini’s latest project, Il comandante e la cicogna (“The Commander and the Stork”), a comedy that will go into production in September....  

20/04/2011 | Production | Italy

Existence of European cinema discussed at Lecce round table

Working around the definition of European cinema as the sum of national film identities established around common roots, the round table "Identity and language of European cinema”, held at the...  

19/04/2011 | Industry | Europe

Woman with a Broken Nose wins Lecce, Cineuropa Award goes to Albania’s Alimani

Srdan Kolijevic’s Serbian/German co-production The Woman with a Broken Nose (see review) is the Golden Olive winner of the 12th Lecce Festival of European Film, which ended April 16. This year’s...  

18/04/2011 | Festivals | Italy

Servillo plays over-the-top father in Ciprì’s È stato mio figlio

Shooting starts May 9 in Apulia, in Brindisi, on the first solo directorial effort of Daniele Ciprì (of duo Ciprì and Maresco), È stato il figlio (“It Was My Son”), starring Toni Servillo. The...  

15/04/2011 | Production | Italy

Moretti, Sorrentino in competition, Trinca in L'Apollonide

Nanni Moretti’s We Have a Pope and Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must Be the Place are in competition; Alice Rohrwacher’s debut feature Corpo Celeste in the Directors' Fortnight (whose selection will be...  

15/04/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Italy

Moretti’s Pope suffers from stress

In a Sistine Chapel accidentally left in the dark, the cardinals convened to elect the new Pope trip and sigh nervously. While outside, in Piazza San Pietro, the faithful with candles in hand and...  

14/04/2011 | Films | Italy

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