22/06/2005

The ninth Sannio FilmFest , the only European festival dedicated to period movies, will take place in one of the most evocative and enchanting places in Campania: the medieval town Sant’Agata dei Goti (in Benevento).
The event, exclusively focused on costumes and artistic direction, will end with a ceremony for the Golden Capitelli awards. Besides the screenings, retrospectives and exhibitions, this festival is above all a place of dialogue and exchange between the authors, art directors, costume managers, students, and film-lovers. The Sannio FilmFest, which aims to stimulate the creativity and training of great costume managers and art directors (whose work is crucial, as shown by the examples of Danilo Donati and Dante Ferretti, who both won an Oscar), has two competitive sections. The titles selected for the Italian competition are: Il resto di niente by Antonietta De Lillo (costumes: Daniela Ciancio, artistic direction: Beatrice Scarpato), La vita che vorrei by Giuseppe Piccioni (costumes: Maria Rita Barbera, artistic direction: Marco Dentici), L’amore ritrovato by Carlo Mazzacurati (costumes: Gianna Gissi, artistic direction: Giancarlo Basili), E ridendo l’uccise by Florestano Vancini (costumes: Lia Francesca Morandini, artistic direction: Giantito Burchiellaro), Lavorare con lentezza by Guido Chiesa (costumes: Lina Taviani, artistic direction: Sonia Peng), Il magico natale di Rupert by Flavio Moretti (costumes: Patrizia Ciaraino, artistic direction: Giuseppe Garau) .
In international competition, we find Vanity Fair by Mira Nair (costumes: Beatrix Aruna Pasztor, artistic direction: Maria Djurkovic), The Merchant of Venice by Michael Radford (costumes: Sammy Sheldon, artistic direction: Bruno Rubeo), The Fall by Oliver Hirschbiegel (costumes: Claudia Bobsin, artistic direction: Bernd Lepel), Neverland by Marc Foster (costumes: Alexandra Byrne, artistic direction: Gemma Jackson), Stage Beauty by Richard Eyre (costumes: Tim Hatley, artistic direction: Jim Clay), The Phantom of the Opera by Joel Schumacher (costumes: Alexandra Byrne, artistic direction: Anthony Pratt).

This year, the festival will also organise two tributes to Spain: one consists of three national premieres and the other is a retrospective on the most respected Spanish art director, Gil Parrondo —three of his films will be screened, all three directed by José Luis Garci (a director whose work has never been shown in Italy before, for that matter).

(Translated from Italian)