List of competition jury members completed, as two extra out of competition films are announced
- Jury president Jeff Nichols will be joined by Timur Bekmambetov, Valentina Cervi, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Chris Fujiwara, Leila Hatami and P.J. Hogan. Castellani and Pradal have been added to the programme
The jury for the seventh edition of Rome’s International Film Festival (9 - 17 November) has finally been completed. Sitting next to president Jeff Nichols (United States), director and screenwriter of Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud , will be Timur Bekmambetov the Russian director and producer originally from Kazakhstan, Italian actress Valentina Cervi, film critic and director of American film festivals Chris Fujiwara, Iranian actress Leila Hatami, Australian director P.J. Hogan and Argentine writer and director Edgardo Cozarinsky.
Two new out of competition films have added to Roman programme: Black Star [+see also:
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film profile] by Francesco Castellani and Tom le Cancre by Manuel Pradal. The first is set in Rome and is a touching tale on a refugee football club named the "Liberi Nantes Football Club”. Tom le Cancre is a kind of modern Peter Pan – a poetic and visionary tale on a group of children going from childhood to adolescence.
(Translated from Italian)
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