Now at its 43rd edition, the Bellaria Film Festival (running 7-11 May) will open with the Italian premiere of Léonor Serraille’s Ari [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], which competed in the most recent Berlinale and was distributed in Italy by Wanted. The young French filmmaker who won Cannes’ Golden Camera in 2017 with her first work Montparnasse Bienvenue [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] will be a guest in Bellaria, delivering a masterclass on her filmography. Unspooling across five days, the festival will host its usual two competitive sections dedicated to Italian cinema (Casa Rossa and Gabbiano), as well as a competitive selection of international films (Casa Rossa International) screening in Italian premieres. In a year marked by a strong female presence on-screen, this 43rd edition will place women directors centre stage, with a tribute set to be paid to independent Italian filmmakers, and a Special Prize awarded to Maura Delpero for Vermiglio [+lee también:
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ficha de la película]. This feminist theme returns in the closing film, famous British playwright and screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s directorial debut Hot Milk [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], which also competed in this year’s Berlinale.

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The Casa Rossa International line-up will include an Italian premiere of Alissa Jung and Luca Marinelli’s first work Paternal Leave [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], which was presented in the Berlinale’s Generation section and is set to be distributed in Italian cinemas from 15 May courtesy of Vision, while complicated family relationships in an increasingly fragmented society are at the heart of Valentine Cadic’s debut That Summer in Paris [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (presented in the IFFR). Last but not least, the transfiguration of a political story is at the heart of Collective Monologue [+lee también:
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In the running for the national Casa Rossa Prize, meanwhile, which is dedicated to first and second Italian films and adjudicated by a jury of 25 young film students, we find Basileia [+lee también:
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entrevista: Sara Fgaier
ficha de la película] by Sara Fgaier (in competition in Locarno), and Real [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Lorenzo Pullega (presented in the IFFR), which will be screened in a special pre-opening event, preceded by a talk featuring the Manetti bros. and Pier Giorgio Bellocchio on the subject of new generations of filmmakers.

The movies gracing the Gabbiano Competition (works treading the line between fiction and documentary) are Così Com’è by Antonello Scarpelli, La montagna magica by Micol Roubini and Nella colonia penale by Gaetano Crivaro, Silvia Perra, Ferruccio Gioia and Alberto Diana, alongside the medium-length movies Roikin <3 (a collective work directed by Claudia Mollese) and D’un autre cotê by Luna Zimmermann, and the short films L’ambasciatore, la danzatrice e il vulcano by Maria Giovanna Cicciari, Elegy of the Enemy by Federico Lodoli and Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli, and Le prime volte by Giulia Cosentino and Perla Sardella.

Last but not least, the BFF Industry sidebar will be making its return, organised in collaboration with Cinecittà, headed up by Francesco Giai Via and dedicated to film and audiovisual professionals.