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Rome Film Festival


83 articles available in total starting from 23/10/2008. Last article published on 05/11/2010.

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

Opium War and Resolution 819 top winners

Two of the biggest tragedies of recent history, the Afghan war and the Balkan war, are at the heart of the two films that won top honours at the Rome International Film Festival. The jury composed...  

31/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | Awards

L.A.R.A.: Michele Riondino wins Best Performance

Michele Riondino, who co-stars with Elio Germano in Daniele Vicari’s The Past is a Foreign Land, is the revelation of the third edition of the Rome Film Festival. The 29-year-old actor won the...  

31/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | Parallel awards

Pulcinella, an Italian pantomime in Paris

Maurizio Scaparro’s L’Ultimo Pulcinella is the closing film of the Rome Film Festival. The rather Italian story focuses on a father-son relationship against the background of the theatre. Though...  

31/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | Italy

Ciccone finds Neighbours among Rome, Paris and Helsinki

With a Finnish mother, Italian father and French grandmother, it’s difficult not to grow up cosmopolitan, something Anne Riitta Ciccone knows full well. Today she presented her latest film, Thy...  

31/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | Italy/Finland

Utopia becomes reality in We Can Do That

A Milanese businessman and a handful of “mad people” are the protagonists of Giulio Manfredonia’s We Can Do That, which reflects on the possibility of turning small utopias into reality. The film...  

30/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | Italy

RocknRolla screens without Ritchie

One of the last Special Screenings at this year’s Rome Film Festival is Guy Ritchie’s gangster saga RocknRolla. The film looks at the changing mafia milieu in the British capital, where people...  

30/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | UK

Amore Che Vai surrounded by contention

It was meant to be Fabrizio De André’s day, with two films dedicated to one of Italy’s most celebrated singer-songwriters, who passed away in 1999. But the double homage paid yesterday by the Rome...  

30/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | Italy

Northern Land: Botelho’s world of strong women

While British filmmaker Peter Greenaway has been saying for years that "cinema is too important to leave in the hands of storytellers,” Portuguese director João Botelho, in competition at the Rome...  

30/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | Portugal

Business Street: Good results despite difficult year

Despite a year marked by a significant drop in business in film industries worldwide, there was no small amount of satisfaction in Via Veneto yesterday after the closing of The Business Street,...  

30/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | Market

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