The 11th Rome Film Fest will be held from 13th to 23rd October

The 11th Rome Film Fest will be held from 13th to 23rd October

The 11th Rome Film Fest will be held from 13th to 23rd October 2016 at the Auditorium Parco della Musica.

From tomorrow, for 10 days, Rome will be the capital of cinema. National and international stars will tread the red carpet of the capital. Along with a rich program of screenings, meetings, tributes, events and conferences.

If the auditorium will be the center of this festival, the whole city will be involved.

This year it wanted to point out, even more than in the past, this feature of the Rome Film Festival. To be first and foremost a great popular event. The event, without losing the artistic quality of its offer, spreads on the territory more than in other festivals of this kind.

The center of the festival is the Cinema Village. It will cover the entire pedestrian area in front of the Auditorium and there will be an awning of about eight hundred places. But the festival will expand involving places and cultural facilities, both in the center and in periphery.

The venues in the city that will be affected are: MAXXI - via Guido Reni 4/a; Casa Del Cinema - L.go Marcello Mastroianni 1;  The Space Moderno – Piazza della Repubblica, 45; Farnese Persol– Piazza Campo de' Fiori 56; Cinema Trevi - vicolo del Puttarello 25; Cineland Multiplex Ostia - viale dei Romagnoli, 515 Lido di Ostia (RM); Broadway – Via dei Narcisi 36; Admiral – Piazza Verbano 5; Mazda MX5 Drive-in – Area antistante Palazzo dei Congressi - Eur - Piazza J. Kennedy 1; Carcere di Rebibbia N.C. – Via Raffaele Mainetti 70; Scuola Di Donato – Via Nino Bixio 85

OFFICIAL SELECTION

Will be 44 the films and the documentaries in the Official Selection:

Moonlight by Barry Jenkins; Afterimage by Andrzej Wajda; Snowden by Oliver Stone; Manchester by the Sea by Kenneth Lonergan; Todo lo demás by Natalia Almada; Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny by Louis Black e Karen Bernstein; Sole cuore amore by Daniele Vicari; The Last Laugh by Ferne Pearlstein; The Birth of a Nation by Nate Parker; The Eagle Huntress by Otto Bell; The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America by Paul Dugdale; Tramps by Adam Leon; 7:19 by Jorge Michel Grau; La fille de Brest by Emmanuelle Bercot; Into the Inferno by Werner Herzog; Denial by Mick Jackson; Irréprochable by Sébastien Marnier; Land of the Little People by Yaniv Berman; Una by Benedict Andrews; The Secret Scripture by Jim Sheridan; Naples '44 by Francesco Patierno; The Long Excuse by Miwa Nishikawa; The Accountant by Gavin O'Connor; Goldstone by Ivan Sen; Noces by Stephan Streker; La caja vacía by Claudia Sainte-Luce; Maria per Roma by Karen By Porto; Fritz Lang by Gordian Maugg; Florence Foster Jenkins by Stephen Frears; Al final del túnel by Rodrigo Grande; Sword Master 3D by Derek Yee; Immortality by Mehby Fard Ghaderi; 7 minuti by Michele Placido; La mujer del Animal by Víctor Gaviria; La última tarde by Joel Calero; The Hollars by John Krasinski; Lion by Garth Davis

EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT IT

Hell or High Water by David Mackenzie; Genius by Michael Grandage; Train to Busan by Yeon Sang-ho; La tortue rouge by Michael Dudok de Wit

IN COLLABORATION WITH ALICE IN THE CITY

Louise en hiver by Jean-François Laguionie; Sing Street by John Carney; Captain Fantastic by Matt Ross

SPECIAL EVENTS

Michael Bublé - Tour Stop 148 by Brett Sullivan; The World of Gilbert & George by Gilbert Proush e George Passmore; Shaolin Martial Arts by Chang Cheh; Il paziente inglese by Anthony Minghella; Ritmo sbilenco. Un filmino su Elio e le Storie Tese by Mattia Colombo

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS

The 11th edition of the Rome Film Festival devotes ample space for meetings with directors, actors and great personalities of the world of culture.

Among the artists invited Oliver Stone; Bernardo Bertolucci; Lorenzo Cherubini; Viggo Mortensen; Gilbert & George; Roberto Benigni; Paolo Conte; Renzo Arbore; Don DeLillo; Tom Hanks; David Mamet; Meryl Streep and Daniel Libeskind.

TRIBUTES

The festival remembers the three protagonists of the Cinema disappeared this year: Gian Luigi Rondi, former President of the Rome Film Festival and the filmmakers Michael Cimino (will be presented a movie with the most beautiful dance sequences selected by him) and Andrzej Wajda with the projection the film "Man of marble" (1977).

On the centenary of the birth of the great director Luigi Comencini there will be three events: the screening of "The Adventures of Pinocchio" (1972); the meeting "Four daughters of art" with Paola, Cristina, Francesca and Eleonora Comencini; the exhibition "Luigi Comencini 1945-1948" on Comencini photographer.

On the centenary of the birth of Gregory Peck will be screened at the Spanish Steps the timeless "Roman Holiday" (1953) by William Wyler and at the House of Cinema the documentary "A Conversation with Gregory Peck" (1999).

Other tributes to Gillo Pontecorvo, with "Queimada" (1969); to Alberto Sordi with "Fumo di Londra", to Citto Maselli with a selection of the most significant works, to the movie "L'armata Brancaleone" fifty years from the exit, to "M" by Fritz Lang, his first sound film ; to Dino Risi with a collage of unpublished interviews.

RETROSPECTIVES

The first "American Politics" falls a few weeks before the US presidential election and presents a survey of fifteen films that helped spread the ideals and models of US policy.

The second is dedicated to Valerio Zurlini, one of the great Italian directors. It's a very exhaustive retrospective because, in addition to feature films, presents a selection of short documentaries of Zurlini of the 50s.

The third is dedicated to Tom Hanks, one of the greatest actors of contemporary cinema. Just this week was presented in Florence the last film in which he stars, "Inferno." In the retrospective are inserted sixteen films, including two directed by the same Hanks.

But the list of activities does not end here. Numerous other events there will be.

We indicate a few of them in no particular order.

Some with a strong cultural impact, but also social (Cinema Without Borders; The film arrives in the family home of Villa Glori, The Film Festival in Rebibbia; The complaint against pedophilia, etc.).

Reflections section, with a number of interesting screenings: "The strongest weapon - The man who invented Cinecittà" by Vanni Gandolfo; "Leave the saints" by Gianfranco Pannone with music by Ambrogio Sparagna; "The Roman - stories of women and of neighborhoods" by Giovanna Gagliardo etc.

The overall program can be found at the festival site.