Upwards of 130 events across an 8-day period, including screenings, masterclasses, meetings, conferences and a tribute to Marco Bellocchio, and 18 foreign films hailing from fifteen or so countries from around the world, plus another dozen films produced in Italy, are on the agenda at the 15th edition of Bif&st – the Bari International Film&Tv Festival, which is scheduled to unspool in the Apulian capital between 16 and 24 March in the Petruzzelli, Piccinni, Kursaal and Margherita theatres.

As ever, the Teatro Petruzzelli will play host to the 8 films gracing the non-competitive International Premieres section, all of which (bar one) will be screening in Italian premieres. Besides the festival’s opening film, May December by Todd Haynes, which stars Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, Bari audiences will also get to see French-Spanish-Chilean title The Movie Teller [+lire aussi :
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interview : Lone Scherfig
fiche film] by Danish director Lone Scherfig and starring Bérénice Bejo, Antonio de la Torre and Daniel Brühl; Another End [+lire aussi :
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interview : Piero Messina
fiche film] by Piero Messina, which is competing at the upcoming Berlin Film Festival and stars Gael García Bernal and Bérénice Bejo once again; and Edge of the Blade [+lire aussi :
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interview : Vincent Perez
fiche film], directed by Swiss actor-director Vincent Perez, who’ll also be delivering a masterclass during the festival. There’s also The Great Escaper [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Brit Oliver Parker, starring Michael Caine, and Margherita Vicario’s directorial debut Gloria! [+lire aussi :
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interview : Margherita Vicario
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The 12 films selected for the competitive International Panorama section are also scheduled to screen in Italian premieres, following which the jury composed of critics Maurizio Porro (president), Fabio Ferzetti and Federico Pontiggia, producer Elisabetta Olmi and actress Iris Peynado will hand out trophies for Best Director, Best Actress and Best Actor. The titles in this line-up are All Your Faces [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Jeanne Herry, Back to Alexandria by Tamer Ruggli, Gondola [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Veit Helmer, Over the Cracks [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Camille Japy, The Quiet Maid [+lire aussi :
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interview : Miguel Faus
fiche film] by Miguel Faus, Body Odyssey [+lire aussi :
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interview : Grazia Tricarico
fiche film] by Grazia Tricarico, Natasha’s Dance [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Jos Stelling, Baltimore [+lire aussi :
interview : Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor
fiche film] by Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor, Stella. A Life [+lire aussi :
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interview : Kilian Riedhof
fiche film] by Kilian Riedhof, La tartaruga by Fabrizio Nardocci and El salto by Benito Zambrano. Karl R. Hearne’s Canadian movie The G, which is the only non-European title on the agenda, is set to round off the section.

ItaliaFilmFest/The Best of the Year will be hosting screenings of films which have already been singled out by the critics’ jury at Bif&st and whose awards are due to be handed out during evening awards ceremonies, namely Felicità [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Micaela Ramazzotti (for which Sergio Rubini was crowned Best Supporting Actor and which claimed Best Cinematography), Io capitano [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Matteo Garrone (winning Best Director and Best Music, while Garrone will also receive the Fellini Award for Cinematic Excellence), There Is Still Tomorrow [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Paola Cortellesi (scooping Best New Director, Best Producer and Best Costumes), Lubo [+lire aussi :
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interview : Giorgio Diritti
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interview : Valentina Bellè
fiche film] by Giorgio Diritti (Best Screenplay), Kidnapped [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Marco Bellocchio (Best Editing), A Brighter Tomorrow [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Nanni Moretti (for which Barbora Bobulova was named Best Supporting Actress), Mi fanno male i capelli [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Roberta Torre (with Alba Rohrwacher crowned Best Actress) and The Commander [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Edoardo De Angelis (which earned Pierfrancesco Favino the title of Best Actor).

Last but not least, ItaliaFilmFest/New Italian Cinema is set to present 8 Italian films in world premieres (including Zamora [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Neri Marcorè and La casa di Ninetta by Lina Sastri), which will then be judged by a jury composed of 24 viewers and presided over by producer Donatella Palermo, while the 9 documentaries screening in world premieres will make up the non-competitive ItaliaFilmFest/DocIn section (which includes E tu slegalo by Maurizio Sciarra, revolving around Franco Basaglia). Meanwhile, 16 of Marco Bellocchio’s movies, as chosen by the director himself, are set to be screened at a rate of two per day, as part of the tribute to the Italian filmmaker.