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5759 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 25/08/2025.

Melissa seduces Italians

The sentimental adventures of Melissa P. (a Bess Movie and Pentagrama Films España production) conquered Italians over the weekend, making it the number one film at the del box office. In only...  

21/11/2005 | Box Office | Italy

2005 Doc Screenings a success

Excellent results were recorded for Italian Doc Screenings 2005, the first market dedicated exclusively to Italian documentaries, held earlier this month in Venice (see article). 33 foreign buyers...  

18/11/2005 | Documentaries | Italy

Festivals examine funds

Film festivals, which represent a fundamental event for the promotion and diffusion of cinematic and audiovisual culture, traditionally draw on a complex financing system that includes, along with...  

18/11/2005 | Funding | Italy

Maurizio Sciarra’s challenge

"This film is a challenge. No wise producer would have accepted this project. But at 50, you want to prove something to yourself, to attempt to take the plunge." The irony in Maurizio Sciarra’s...  

17/11/2005 | Production | Italy

Bauer Martinez buys Benigni at the AFM

The Tiger and the Snow (o.t. La tigre e la neve by Roberto Benigni will be distributed in the US. According to weekly trade paper Variety, Bauer Martinez Studios bought the rights to the film for...  

16/11/2005 | Market | Italy

Amelio’s poetry in New York

MoMa (Museum of Modern Art) and Cinecittà Holding are taking the "poetry and rigor" of Gianni Amelio to New York. This will be the filmmaker’s first US retrospective and will include 12 of his...  

15/11/2005 | Events | Italy

Pupi Avati and the marriage of convenience

Pupi Avati’s new film, La seconda notte di nozze, debuted at third place in the Italian box office (according to the Cinetel classification), and grossed 817,203 euro in its opening weekend....  

14/11/2005 | Releases | Italy

Finance, Visual Arts Fund cuts reduced

The cuts to the Visual Arts Fund (FUS) will be reduced in the 2006 Finance Law. A Senate amendment has recovered 85m euro of the over 160m of the anticipated cuts, to be added to the...  

14/11/2005 | Funding | Italy

Doc Screenings in Venice

Today marked the beginning of a unique occasion for documentary filmmakers to meet foreign buyers as the second edition of the Italian Doc Screenings got underway in Venice on the island of San...  

10/11/2005 | Documentaries | Italy

Chamber of Deputies approves "salvage cinema" law

The Cultural Commission of the Chamber of Deputies has approved the "salvage cinema" law, which restores the possibility, on the part of the public administrations, to sustain film projects...  

10/11/2005 | Legislation | Italy

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