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Rome Film Festival / Competition

18 articles available in total starting from 15/10/2009. Last article published on 04/11/2010.

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I Am With You: A mother’s love can change the world

Guido Chiesa’s I Am With You, in Competition at the Rome Film Festival, centers on a disobedient Mary, sweetly indifferent to the laws of the elders, who teaches her child to live like a free man,...  

04/11/2010 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Italy

The Flowers of Kirkuk looks at genocide and one woman’s courage

The first film shot in Iraq since the beginning of the war in 2003, and also one of the dramatic ones produced in that region, The Flowers of Kirkuk – an Italian/Swiss/Iraqi co-production by...  

03/11/2010 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/CH-IT-IQ

Tribal India takes on Bollywood in Gangor

Italian-Indian co-production Gangor by Italo Spinelli is the second Italian film and the first of the domestic titles in Competition at the Rome International Film Festival not spoken in Italian....  

03/11/2010 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Italy-India

Servillo plays a hunted animal in A Quiet Life

The Italian actor of the moment, Toni Servillo plays Rosario, a chef hiding a criminal past in Claudio Cupellini’s Italian-German co-production A Quiet LIfe, which hits Italian screens November 5...  

02/11/2010 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Italy-Germany

Oranges and Sunshine brings to light invisible children

It must not be easy to carry his surname, but Jim Loach, with a vast experience in TV, came to his feature debut without any complexes towards his father Ken. Aiming straight at the exploration of...  

02/11/2010 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/UK

Poll Diaries: Freedom and eugenics at the dawn of a new empire

What stays with you the most about Germany director Chris Kraus’ new film The Poll Diaries, presented in Competition at the Rome Film Festival, is without a doubt the striking location: a strange...  

31/10/2010 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Germany

School is Over for Jalongo

For whom does the bell toll? The title of the new film by Valerio Jalongo, the first of four Italians in competition at the Rome International Film Festival, is both literal and metaphorical:...  

29/10/2010 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Italy-Switzerland

Doubt and infidelity for Knightley, Mendes in Last Night

In Last Night, Sam Worthington and Keira Knightley play Michael and Joanna, a young married couple living in New York City. One night at a party Joanna notices Michael noticing a new, attractive...  

28/10/2010 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/France-US

Von Trotta’s Vision centres on visionary, influential heroine

“The producer chose the title, because it’s comprehensible in many languages,” explained Margarethe von Trotta, who may have preferred a different title for Vision, her biography of Hildegard of...  

23/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Germany

Brotherhood: Love and other bonds

Like Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, which was unjustly pigeonholed as that “gay cowboy film,” Danish director Nicolo Donato’s feature debut Brotherhood, in competition at the Rome Film Festival,...  

21/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Denmark

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