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Festivals / Italy


564 articles available in total starting from 18/05/2002. Last article published on 19/06/2019.

Ischia celebrates film locations

Cinema as a tool to promote a territory’s landscapes, traditions and cultural identity is the strategy behind the Ischia Film Festival, an international film location market showcasing films that...  

16/06/2008 | Festivals | Italy

Pesaro hosts most recent German cinema

The 44th Pesaro Film Festival (June 21-29) has a distinctly European flavour because “taking at look at the Old Continent is a moral obligation,” says artistic director Giovanni Spagnoletti,...  

13/06/2008 | Festivals | Italy

New RomeFilmFest president promises more Italian films

Gian Luigi Rondi officially took over as the new president of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, the association of the RomeFilmFest. The board of founders nominated him yesterday to replace Goffredo...  

12/06/2008 | Festivals | Italy

An “Archipelago” of shorts

The 16th Arcipelago International Festival of Shorts and New Images (to be held June 13-19 in Rome) will feature two tributes: a focus on the 30 years of the Clermont-Ferrand Festival (with...  

07/06/2008 | Festivals | Italy

Bettini steps down as president but RomeFest continues

Goffredo Bettini, president of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, behind the RomeFilmFest, announced yesterday that he was leaving his position to "prevent any possible controversy and political...  

04/06/2008 | Festivals | Italy

Taormina’s 54th edition packed with titles and events

The Taormina Film Festival has announced the line-up of its 54th edition, to be held June 15-21. Two European titles are part of this year’s Mediterranea Competition: Love Me No More (France) by...  

04/06/2008 | Festivals | Italy

Latest in Spanish film comes to Rome

Besides the usual suspects (especially Almodóvar) and a few genre filmmakers, Italians know little about recent Spanish cinema. In to attempt to bridge this gap, cinemaSpagna is offering 10...  

05/05/2008 | Festivals | Italy/Spain

Pudor wins Golden Olive

Tristàn and David Ulloa’s Pudor walked away with the top prize at the European Cinema Festival in Lecce. The film won the Golden Olive for “knowing how to command everyday surrealism with original...  

22/04/2008 | Festivals | Italy

“Italian-style Kammerspiel” at Lecce

A Kammerspiel shot in Denmark is one way to describe Davide Sibaldi’s The Summer In Winter, the only Italian title in competition (in national avant-premiere) at the Lecce European Film Festival....  

18/04/2008 | Festivals | Italy

Milić and the horrors of war

The tragedy of the former Yugoslavia took centre stage today at the Festival del Cinema Europeo di Lecce. In The Living and the Dead, Croatian filmmaker Kristijan Milić shows “the cyclic nature of...  

18/04/2008 | Festivals | Italy

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