The program for the 17th Rome Film Festival is announced

Popular and experimental films, a section for new talent, resurgent genres such as westerns and romantic comedies, a widespread female presence (7 of the 16 films in competition are directed by women) and so much “wanted and deserved” Italian cinema. This is how Paola Malanga – the festival’s new artistic director who is taking up the baton after Antonio Monda’s seven years at the helm of the event, which is now reaching its 17th edition – presented her first ever Rome Film Fest. New sections but, most importantly, the return of an international competition “which everyone wanted” characterizes the new direction of the festival, which is set to unfold between 13 and 23 October this year, at the Parco della Musica Auditorium and on 28 screens throughout the city, including the Nuovo Sacher Cinema belonging to Nanni Morettiwho will compose his own selection of films to promote from the festival.

The new Progressive Cinema Competition consists of 16 titles, including fiction films, documentaries and animations. Featuring among these are European titles such as French movies The Lockdown Tower by Guillaume Nicloux and Houria by Mounia MeddourFrench-Ukrainian film shttl by Amy WalterGermany’s In a Land That No Longer Exists by Aerun GoetteItalian works Cura by Francesco Patierno and I morti rimangono con la bocca aperta by Fabrizio FerraroSpanish movies ramona [+lire aussi :
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interview : Andrea Bagney
fiche film] by Andrea Bagney and El caso Padilla by Pavel GiroudLatvia’s January [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Viesturs KairissSwitzerland’s Thunder [+lire aussi :
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interview : Carmen Jaquier
fiche film] by Carmen Jaquier and the French-Tunisian-Palestinian-Saudi Arabian-Qatari co-production alam [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Firas Khoury. The selection is rounded off by American movies Causeway by Lila Neugebauer, Raymond & Ray by Rodrigo Garcia and Sanctuary by Zachary Wigonas well as Korean work Jeong-sun by Jeong Ji-hye and Hong Kong’s The Hotel by Wang Xiaoshuai.

The non-competitive Grand Public section composed of 16 titles aimed at wider audiences is set to boast hotly anticipated Italian titles such as The Hummingbird [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Francesca Archibugi (opening movie), Caravaggio’s Shadow [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Michele Placido (starring Louis Garrel and Isabelle Huppert), The stranezza by Roberto Ando, War – La guerra desiderata by Gianni Zanasi, Rapiniamo il duce by Renato De Maria, The principle of Roma by Edoardo Falcone, era ora by Alessandro Aronadioand Astolfo by Gianni De Gregorio. European films in the line-up include The Lost King [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Stephen Frears, Signora Harris goes to Paris by Anthony Fabian, What’s Love Got to Do With It [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Shekhar Kapurand Rheingold by Fatih Akin.

Titles deserving of a mention within the Freestyle section – composed of 25 works which are free both in terms of form and style – include Bassifondi which is directed by Francesco Prividori and written by the D’Innocenzo brothers, Django, the series by Francesca Comencinistarring Matthias Shoenaertz and Noomi Rapace, the second season of Romulus by Matteo Roverethe series Sound Lillo by Eros Pugliellithe Italian-Spanish documentary Daniel Pennac: ho visto Maradona! by Ximo Solanothe Italian-German doc Trained to See – Three Women and the War by Luzia Schmidand Jane Campion, the cinema woman by France’s Julie Bertuccelli.

Movies set to be treated to a special screening include A Cooler Climate by James Ivory (who’s set to receive the Lifetime Achievement award), Kill Me If You Can by Alex Infascelliand Polansky, Horowitz. Hometown by Mateusz Kudla and Anna Kokoszka-Romer. The Best of 2022 section will bring together 11 films hailing from other international festivals, including Palme D’Or winner Triangle of Sadness [+lire aussi :
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interview : Ruben Östlund
interview : Ruben Östlund
fiche film] by Ruben Ostlund, Final Cut! [+lire aussi :
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interview : Michel Hazanavicius
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interview : Pietro Marcello
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fiche film] by Louis Garrelthe Ukrainian candidate for the Oscars Klondike [+lire aussi :
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interview : Maryna Er Gorbach
fiche film] by Maryna Er Gorbach, The Beasts [+lire aussi :
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interview : Rodrigo Sorogoyen et Isabe…
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interview : Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
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The public will also get to see the likes of Mario Martone, Luc Besson, Stephen Frears, Paolo Virzi and James Gray, who will be speaking about their first films. Tributes and retrospectives, meanwhile, will be dedicated to the protagonists of this year’s festival, Joan Woodward and Paul Newmanas well as to Marisa Paredes and Jean-Luc Godard. A great many restored films are likewise on the agenda, including The Big Feast by Marco Ferreri, The Stolen Children by Gianni Amelio and The gate of the sky by Vittorio De Sica.