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5895 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 20/11/2025.

RomeFilmFest changes name and expands competition

With the arrival of the new president Gian Luigi Rondi in June come changes to the RomeFilmFest. The name of the event, to be held from October 22-31, has been changed to the Rome International...  

11/07/2008 | Festivals | Italy

Brizzi returns with a melancholic comedy

The new film by Fausto Brizzi (Night Before the Exams, the French remake of which is out in France as Nos 18 ans) will feature a stellar cast. Ex – which starts shooting July 14 in Rome before...  

10/07/2008 | Production | Italy

Tax credit and tax shelter reinstated

An amendment has been signed reinstating the tax shelter and tax credit that allow for the re-investment in film production. The funds have been found from sources other than the Ministry of...  

08/07/2008 | Legislation | Italy

Eldorado soon to be found in America

Eldorado is heading to America. The second feature film by Belgium’s Bouli Lanners, winner of Label Europa Cinemas and the FIPRESCI prize in the latest Directors’ Fortnight of the Cannes Film...  

08/07/2008 | Distribution | Italy

Seven German competition entries at Giffoni

Four German features and three shorts will compete in four of the six competition sections of Italy’s Giffoni International Film Festival (July 18-26), one of the world's most important film...  

08/07/2008 | Festivals | Italy

Piccioni’s “prize” hides secret

Valerio Mastandrea and Valeria Golino star in Giuseppe Piccioni latest project, Il premio (“The Prize”), which started production today in Rome and will later move to Tuscany for an overall...  

07/07/2008 | Production | Italy

Giffoni: “A young but mature festival”

“The Giffoni Film Festival is mature, but it’s never been so young!” says artistic director Claudio Gubitosi, who 38 years ago founded the first Italian event “dedicated to films for young people,...  

04/07/2008 | Festivals | Italy

Virzì, Franchi and Molaioli get Golden Globes

Paolo Virzì’s Tutta la vita davanti, on the “hellish” world of call centres, last night won the Best Italian Film Golden Globe, awarded each year by the Foreign Press Association in Italy. "It’s a...  

03/07/2008 | Awards | Italy

Great cinema “rediscovered” in Bologna

Peter von Bagh is “surprised by the generosity of the Cinematheque of Bologna”. Von Bagh is the Finnish director Il cinema ritrovato (“Cinema rediscovered”), the event that for over 20 years has...  

03/07/2008 | Festivals | Italy

East West East: Freedom on two wheels

“As independent producers we are very much interested in the freshness, originality and enthusiasm of Eastern European cinema,” said Italy’s Francesco Tagliabue of Fast Rewind and Albania’s Arben...  

02/07/2008 | Production | Italy/Albania

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