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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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Diritti captures Nazi horrors through eyes of little girl

A woman’s swollen, hard belly. “What do you have in your belly?”, “Are you expecting a baby?”, repeat continuously, obsessively, the children of Monte Sole, the hills just a few kilometres from...  

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

Castellitto searches for son, and himself in Keep Up Your Head

With his second film (and second time in competition at the Rome Film Festival), after the superb The Salty Air, Alessandro Angelini confirms his talent and sincere, original perspective with...  

19/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Italy

Kahn serves up fiery Regrets in Rome

French director Cédric Kahn returns to the world of adults for Regrets, the follow-up to his children’s film The Airplane. The film is the only fully French production in Competition at the Rome...  

19/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/France

Scenes from Tolstoy’s marriage in The Last Station

Husband and wife argue, scream, smash the china, laugh, hug, and make up: the normal ups and downs in any marriage, you could say. But when the Mr. and Mrs. are Leo Tolstoy and his wife Sophia,...  

18/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Germany-UK

Every Day is a Holiday: Echoes of war between dream and reality

In post-war Lebanon, every day is a holiday. "Every day is different. Every day we expect a catastrophe, which sometimes happens, and sometimes does not,” says Lebanese director Dima El-Horr (who...  

17/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Competition

Three characters lost in the night in After

Seville-born director Alberto Rodríguez presented his eagerly awaited new work, After, in Official Competition at the 4th Rome Film Festival. The film is a devastating and bittersweet journey to...  

17/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Spain

Historical Sea Violet a timely story of freedom and love

After the young woman fighting against the Mafia in Marco Amenta’s film, presented last year at the Rome International Film Festival, comes another “rebellious Sicilian girl”. In Donatella...  

16/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Italy

Tanovic at war again

“The problem with you war people is that you think you’re immortal,” says Doctor Talzani (Branco Djuric) to photographer Mark Walsh (Colin Farrell, who lost weight for the role) in Bosnian...  

15/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Competition

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