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2280 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 05/06/2025.

Six films and already raining stars

Six of the 20 titles selected in competition for the 57th Berlin Film Festival (February 8-18) have been announced. Of the six entrants – all of which will be making their international premiere –...  

05/01/2007 | Berlinale 2007 | Competition

Nisi Masa launches Survive Style

European network NISI MASA (sponsored by directors Emir Kusturica, Dominik Moll, Dani Levy and Fernando Trueba) has announced a new project: a competition of shorts entitled Survive Style, open to...  

25/10/2006 | Competition | Europe

Francesca Comencini portrays a “rotten” Italy

“This country is also our home,” says Valeria Golino indignantly, in the role of a Revenue Corps officer, against those ruining Italy by abusing both money and power. The confrontation arising...  

20/10/2006 | RomeFilmFest | Competition

An existentialist Patagonia

In the Argentinean mindset, Patagonia is a land deeply tied to fortune, “la suerte”. One goes there in search of it or else to run away from an unfortunate event. In his Born and Bred, Pablo...  

20/10/2006 | RomeFilmFest | Competition

Davide Ferrario revisits The Truce

“I’m not a traveller. The attraction for Primo Levi and his stories was so strong as to make me take off in his footsteps. I travelled with him for over 6,000 kilometres,” said Davide Ferrario,...  

20/10/2006 | RomeFilmFest | Competition

Gangs of England

There was a long applause after the press screening and a standing ovation following the public screening of This Is England by UK director Shane Meadows. The secrets to the successful of the...  

19/10/2006 | RomeFilmFest | Competition

Tornatore and his "unknown woman", between thriller and mystery

Six years after Malèna, Oscar-winning Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore returns to the screen in the Première section of the RomeFilmFest with his new film, The Unknown ( La sconosciuta), a...  

18/10/2006 | RomeFilmFest | Competition

The Legacy: A journey towards destiny

An old man and his grandson travel with an empty coffin across Georgia. Gela Babluani, a 28 year-old Georgian living in Paris (where he founded the Les Films de la Strada production company)...  

18/10/2006 | RomeFilmFest | Competition

Mon Colonel reopens Algerian wounds

The way to reopening the debate in France on Algeria’s war of independence was paved last year at Cannes by Michael Haneke’s Hidden. The topic was touched upon again today at the RomeFilmFest...  

17/10/2006 | RomeFilmFest | Competition

The Stone Council: Bellucci at the edges of reality

Monica Bellucci, the most international of today’s Italian movie stars, presented her second competition film at the RomeFilmFest . After her all-Italian comic turn in Paolo Virzì’s N.: Napoleon &...  

17/10/2006 | RomeFilmFest | Competition

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