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5689 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 10/06/2025.

The TV/Film Rights Centre and the Games Business Centre return to the Bologna Children’s Book Fair

The TV/Film Rights Centre and the Games Business Centre return to the Bologna Children’s Book Fair

The event’s business area aims to facilitate professional encounters between producers, publishers, literary agents and licensing professionals  

24/03 | Industry | Market | Italy

Filming under way for Blue, starring Rocco Siffredi

Filming under way for Blue, starring Rocco Siffredi

Eleonora Puglia's directorial debut, also featuring Alexia Cozzi and Shaen Barletta, explores the dangers of the online world and is currently shooting in the central Marche region  

20/03 | Production | Funding | Italy/Poland

Review: Close to Me

Review: Close to Me

The new film by Stefano Sardo, set during the 2020 lockdown, starts like a romantic comedy and becomes increasingly effervescent as its plot gets more complicated  

19/03 | Films | Reviews | Italy/Serbia

Review: L’albero

Review: L’albero

The debut film by Sara Petraglia, about two gay and drug addicted friends, has an ambitious and brilliant style that defuses dramatic themes without ever really going deep  

19/03 | Films | Reviews | Italy

Gina is the winner of the Bergamo Film Meeting

Gina is the winner of the Bergamo Film Meeting

The audience favoured the family drama directed by Austrian filmmaker Ulrike Kofler, while the international jury awarded Best Director to French-Japanese director Koya Kamura for Winter in Sokcho  

18/03 | Bergamo 2025 | Awards

Italian cinema organisations warn that independent cinema is at risk

Italian cinema organisations warn that independent cinema is at risk

Italian authors and technicians accuse the sector’s block on the absence of any tax credit rules; the government reassures that the latest corrections are on their way  

14/03 | Institutions | Legislation | Italy

Review: Satisfaction

Review: Satisfaction

Alex Burunova directs a visually rich psychological drama with a fuzzy narrative but an important central story about dangerous patriarchal relationship dynamics  

13/03 | SXSW 2025

Review: La città proibita

Review: La città proibita

In his new film that mixes together kung fu, drama, love and comedy, Gabriele Mainetti creates a melting pot of tones, genres and situations, in the image of the Roman neighbourhood in which it is set  

12/03 | Films | Reviews | Italy

EXCLUSIVE: The Archive Film Festival Network comes to life

EXCLUSIVE: The Archive Film Festival Network comes to life

Bergamo Film Meeting, FEMA La Rochelle, the Midnight Sun Film Festival and Summer Film School are joining forces on a new initiative celebrating archive films and cinematic heritage  

12/03 | Industry | Market | Italy/France/Finland/Czech Republic

Brwa Vahabpour, Peiman Azizpour • Director of and actor in My Uncle Jens

Interview: Brwa Vahabpour, Peiman Azizpour • Director of and actor in My Uncle Jens

"The film talks about how to deal with a feeling of shortcoming or feeling that you're not living up to your assigned role in a society"

The director and the actor reflect on striking a complex tonal balance with their film, working with multiple languages on set and embracing the backgrounds of different collaborators and characters  

12/03 | SXSW 2025

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