Opening film | The Great Ambition by Andrea Segre |
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Location | Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome |
Founded | 2006 |
Directors | Francesca Via |
Hosted by |
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Artistic director | Paola Malanga |
No. of films | 100 |
Festival date | Opening: October 16, 2024 Closing: October 27, 2024 |
Language | International |
Website | www |
The 19th Rome Film Festivsl opened on 16 October in the Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome with the Italian biographical drama film The Great Ambition by Andrea Segre. [1] Earlier the pre-opening film of the festival, Megalopolis , an American epic science fiction drama directed by Francis Ford Coppola, was screened on 14 October 2024, at the Cinecittà film studios. The event was streamed live to the Auditorium Parco della Musica's Sala Petrassi. Coppola was honoured at the screening and introduced the film in the presence of his granddaughter, Gia Coppola. [2] Lino Guanciale an Italian actor hosted the opening ceremony. [3] Viggo Mortensen and Johnny Depp were honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Awards. [4] In the festival, an international competition featuring 18 titles hailing from 29 countries will be presented. [5]
The official image of the event is dedicated to Marcello Mastroianni, on the occasion of his birth centenary, which is taken from his character Guido Anselmi in the 1964 film 8½ by Federico Fellini. [6] Pablo Trapero, an Argentine film producer, editor, and director is serving as the jury president of the competition section. [7] The festival will close on 27 October 2024.
On 14 October 2024, Cinecittà Studios hosted the Italian premiere of the 2024 film Megalopolis by the Italian-American director Francis Ford Coppola, with a screening introduced by the director himself. The event was streamed live at the Auditorium Parco della Musica's Sala Petrassi as the pre-opening of the festival. During the evening a special tribute was paid to the director. [9]
Festa del Cinema will organize a large retrospective of films, some in restored versions, that saw him collaborate with directors such as Federico Fellini, Vittorio De Sica, Ettore Scola, Pietro Germi; documentaries on the life and works of the great interpreter; exhibitions and displays set up between the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone and the Casa del Cinema; and a meeting with the actress Chiara Mastroianni - daughter of the actor and Catherine Deneuve - to whom the Festa will dedicate a special tribute. He will also be the protagonist of the official image of the nineteenth edition. [10] [11]
In 2024, the film festival will continue its dedication to social issues and environmental concerns. Events will take place at the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS with MediCinema Italia ETS, Rebibbia Penitentiary Complex, the Rebibbia "Germana Stefanini" women’s prison, the Latina prison, and the Casal del Marmo juvenile penal institute.
Save the Children will be the Social Partner for the nineteenth edition, showcasing a screening of its projects.
During Pink October, which focuses on breast cancer awareness, Novartis will present the DISTANCES series. Life always finds a way.
A Charity Gala Dinner will be organized to support the Italian Red Cross. [13]
The Fondazione Cinema per Roma, in collaboration with Azienda Comunale Elettricità e Acque—Electricity and Water Municipal Utility (ACEA), launched the contest "I mille volti dell'acqua" (The Thousand Faces of Water) to explore the theme of water through the perspectives of young filmmakers and renowned directors. Additionally, the event included a retrospective section titled "Drops of Cinema," featuring seven films designed to raise public awareness about the importance of water as a resource. [14]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(ies) | |
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Pre-opening film | ||||
Megalopolis | Francis Ford Coppola | United States | ||
Opening film | ||||
The Great Ambition | Berlinguer. La grande ambizione | Andrea Segre | Italy, Belgium, Bulgaria | |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(ies) |
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100 Litres of Gold | Teemu Nikki | Finland, Italy | |
The Tree | L’albero | Sara Petraglia | Italy |
The Art of Being Happy | L'Art d'être heureux | Stefan Liberski | Belgium, France |
The Great Ambition | Berlinguer. La grande ambizione | Andrea Segre | Italy, Belgium, Bulgaria |
Bring Them Down | Christopher Andrews | Ireland, UK, Belgium | |
The Choice | Le Choix | Gilles Bourdos | France |
About Luis | Es geht um Luis | Lucia Chiarla | Germany |
Greedy People | Potsy Ponciroli | United States | |
The Island of Idealists | L'isola degli idealisti | Elisabetta Sgarbi | Italy |
Jazzy | Morrisa Maltz | United States | |
Bound in Heaven | Kun bang shang tian tang | Huo Xin | China |
Reading Lolita in Tehran | Eran Riklis | Italy, Israel | |
Night Call | La nuit se traine | Michiel Blanchart | Belgium, France |
They Will Be Dust | Polvo serán | Carlos Marqués-Marcet | Spain, Italy, Switzerland |
Dear Topic | Querido trópico | Ana Endara | Panama, Colombia |
Spirit World | Eric Khoo | France, Singapore, Japan | |
Paradise for Sale | Luca Barbareschi | Italy, France | |
The Trainer | Tony Kaye | United States | |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(ies) |
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Arsa | Masbedo | Italy | |
Pierce | Cì xīn qiè gŭ | Nelicia Low | Singapore, Taiwan, Poland |
Hello Child | Edgardo Pistone | Italy | |
Ghostlight | Kelly O'Sullivan, Alex Thompson | United States | |
Grand Theft Hamlet | Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane | United Kingdom – documentary | |
Marko Polo | Elisa Fuksas | Italy | |
McVeigh | Mike Ott | USA | |
Christmas After Hours | Gianfranco Firriolo | Italy – documentary | |
Nottefonda | Giuseppe Miale Di Mauro | Italy | |
On Falling | Laura Carreira | United Kingdom, Portugal | |
Sunlight | Nina Conti | United States | |
Under a Blue Sun | מתחת לשמש כחולה | Daniel Mann | France, Israel – documentary |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countr y(ies) |
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Waiting for King Lear | Aspettando Re Lear | Alessandro Preziosi | Italy |
The Tirana Plot | Manfredi Lucibello | Italy | |
Duse, The Greatest | Sonia Bergamasco | Italy | |
Franco Califano - I Will Not Hold You Back | Antonio Mondini | Italy | |
My dear Giulia! Giorgio | Maria Mauti | Italy | |
I am Martin Parr | Lee Shulman | France, United Kingdom | |
Italo Calvino in the Cities | Davide Ferrario | Italy | |
Leonardo da Vinci | Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon | United States | |
Musicians with the Pianola | Matteo Malatesta | Italy | |
Pellizza Painter from Volpedo | Francesco Fei | Italy | |
Stones and Bricks | Saeid Shahparnia | Iran, Italy | |
The King of Naples - History and Legend by Mario Merola | Massimo Ferrari | Italy | |
Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band | Thom Zimny | United States | |
They say about me | Isabella Mari | Italy | |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country y(ies) |
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My Brilliant Friend | L'amica geniale | Laura Bispuri | Italy |
Avetrana: This Is Not Hollywood | Avetrana - Qui non è Hollywood | Pippo Mezzapesa | Italy |
Bellas Artes | Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn | Spain, Argentina | |
The Count of Monte Cristo | Le Comte de Monte Cristo | Bille August | Italy, France |
La Máquina | Gabriel Ripstein | Mexico | |
Miss Fallaci | Luca Ribuoli, Giacomo Martelli, Alessandra Gonnella | Italy | |
Life of Carlo | Vita da Carlo | Carlo Verdone, Valerio Vestoso | Italy |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country y(ies) |
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The House of Gazes | La casa degli sguardi | Luca Zingaretti | Italy |
Conclave | Edward Berger | United Kingdom, United States | |
Eternal Visionary | Michele Placido | Italy, Belgium | |
Here Now | Fino alla fine | Gabriele Muccino | Italy |
Hey Joe | Claudio Giovannesi | Italy | |
Libre | Mélanie Laurent | France | |
Longlegs | Oz Perkins | United States | |
Bare Hands | Mani nude | Mauro Mancini | Italy |
The Thieving Magpie | La pie voleuse | Robert Guédiguian | France |
The autonomous parallel section unfolding within Rome Film Fest dedicated to younger generations.
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country y(ies) |
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The Boy with Pink Pants | Il ragazzo dai pantaloni rosa | Margherita Ferri | Italy |
The Children's Train | Cristina Comencini | Italy | |
The Dead Don't Hurt | Viggo Mortensen | United States | |
Modì, Three Days on the Wing of Madness | Tre giorni sulle ali della follia | Johnny Depp | United Kingdom, Hungary, Italy |
The Return | Uberto Pasolini | France, Greece, Italy, United Kingdom | |
Saturday Night | Jason Reitman | United States | |
Story of a Night | Paolo Costella | Italy | |
Superheroes | Stefano Chiantini | Italy, France | |
U.S. Palmese | Manetti Bros. | Italy | |
La Vallée des fous | Xavier Beauvois | France | |
We Live in Time | John Crowley | United Kingdom | |
The autonomous parallel section unfolding within Rome Film Fest dedicated to younger generations. [19]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country y(ies) |
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100 of These Years | 100 di questi anni | Michela Andreozzi, Massimiliano Bruno Claudia Gerini, Edoardo Leo, Francesca Mazzoleni, Rocco Papaleo, Sydney Sibilia | Italy |
Ago | Giangiacomo De Stefano | Italy | |
Antidote | James Jones | United Kingdom | |
Everyone's House | Manetti Bros. | Italy – short film | |
Bad Masters | Roberto Orazi | Italy – documentary | |
As if there were no tomorrow | Riccardo Cremona, Matteo Keffer | Italy – documentary | |
Shattered Things Shine | Marta Basso , Sara Cecconi , Carlotta Cosmai , Alice Malingri , Lilian Sassanelli | Italy – documentary | |
Blanket Wearer | Damyoreul ibeun saram | Park Jeong-mi | South Korea – documentary |
Dike – Life as a Magistrate | Caterina Crescini | Italy – documentary | |
Heroic! 100 years of passion and sports stories | Giuseppe Marco Albano | Italy – documentary | |
Sharp Corner | Jason Buxton | Canada, Ireland | |
State of Silence | Santiago Maza | Mexico – documentary | |
Ferrari: Fury and the Monster | Steve Hoover | United States – documentary | |
The Island of Care | Alex Grazioli | Italy – documentary | |
Liliana | Ruggero Gabbai | Italy – documentary | |
Ukrainian Lyrics | Francesca Mannocchi | Italy – documentary | |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(ies) |
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Anora | Sean Baker | United States | |
Architecton | Viktor Kossakovsky | Germany, France | |
The Balconettes | Les Femmes au Balcon | Noémie Merlant | France |
Emilia Pérez | Jacques Audiard | France, Mexico | |
En fanfare | Emmanuel Courcol | France | |
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found | Raoul Peck | France, United States | |
Les Femmes au balcon | Noémie Merlant | France | |
Megalopolis | Francis Ford Coppola | United States | |
Nasty | Tudor Giurgiu, Cristian Pascariu, Tudor D. Popescu | Romania | |
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl | Rungano Nyoni | Ireland, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia | |
The Seed of the Sacred Fig | دانه انجیر مقدس | Mohammad Rasoulof | Iran, Germany, France |
Small Things like These | Tim Mielants | Ireland, Belgium | |
The Substance | Coralie Fargeat | United Kingdom, United States, France | |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(ies) |
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Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes | Kathryn Ferguson | United States | |
Once Upon a Time in Naples | Ciro Ippolito, Marco Giusti | Italy | |
Being Godard and de Beauregard | Dans la tete de Godard et de Beauregard | Hind R. Boukli | France |
Delon/Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs | Laurent Galinon | France | |
Homosexualité au cinema, les chemins de la victoire | Sonia Medina | France | |
John Cassavetes par Thierry Jousse | Camille Clavel | France | |
Mario Verdone: The Traveling Critic | Luca Verdone | Italy | |
Le scenario de ma vie, François Truffaut | David Teboul | France | |
Titanus 1904 | Giuseppe Rossi | Italy | |
Valerio Zurlini, painter of feelings | Sandra Marti | France | |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(ies) |
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Hello Marcello! | Ciao Marcello! | Edited by Paolo Luciani | Italy |
Hello Marcello. Mastroianni the Anti-Star | Ciao Marcello. Mastroianni l'antidivo | Fabrizio Corallo | Italy |
Ghosts of Rome | Fantasmi a Roma | Antonio Pietrangeli | Italy |
Dirty Hands Three-part TV series | Le mani sporche | Elio Petri | Italy |
Mastroianni. A Casanova of Our Times | Antonello Branca | Italy | |
Everybody's Fine | Stanno tutti bene | Giuseppe Tornatore | Italy, France |
Gian Maria Volonté, Italian actor and activist, who died on 6 December 1994.
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(ies) |
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The Death of Mario Ricci | La mort de Mario Ricci | Claude Goretta | Switzerland, France |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(ies) |
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There's Still Tomorrow | C'è ancora domani | Paola Cortellesi | Italy |
I'm Starting from Three | Ricomincio da tre | Massimo Troisi | Italy |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(ies) |
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From the East | D'Est | Chantal Akerman | Belgium, France |
The Seduction of Mimi | Mimì metallurgico ferito nell'onore | Lina Wertmüller | Italy |
The Crying of the Old Maids | Il pianto delle zitelle | Giacomo Pozzi Bellini | Italy |
Unknown Woman | Senza sapere niente di lei | Luigi Comencini | Italy |
Finally Sunday! | Vivement dimanche! | François Truffaut | France |
Year of release | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(ies) |
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1974 | Watch Out, We're Mad! | ...altrimenti ci arrabbiamo! | Marcello Fondato | Italy, Spain |
1994 | Lamerica | Gianni Amelio | Italy, France, Switzerland | |
1994 | Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino | United States | |
1954 | Sabrina | Billy Wilder | United States | |
1964 | Blood and Black Lace | Sei donne per l'assassino | Mario Bava | Italy, France, West Germany |
1974 | The Sugarland Express | Steven Spielberg | United States | |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(ies) |
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Gilda | Charles Vidor | United States | |
Alain Delon, French actor, film producer, screenwriter, and singer who died on 18 August 2024.
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(ies) |
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Borsalino | Jacques Deray | France, Italy | |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(ies) |
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The Brave | Johnny Depp | United States | |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(ies) |
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Falling | Viggo Mortensen | Canada, United Kingdom | |
The Fondazione Cinema per Roma, in collaboration with Azienda Comunale Elettricità e Acque—Electricity and Water Municipal Utility (ACEA), is presenting a retrospective "Drops of cinema", dedicated to water. The section consists of seven films, aimed at increasing public awareness of the value of water resource.
Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(ies) |
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1953 | From Here to Eternity | Fred Zinnemann | United States | |
1976 | Jaws | Steven Spielberg | United States | |
1944 | Lifeboat | Alfred Hitchcock | United States | |
1980 | Lightning Over Water | Wim Wenders, Nicholas Ray | West Germany, France | |
1983 | Nostalghia | Andrei Tarkovsky | Italy, Soviet Union | |
2017 | The Shape of Water | Guillermo del Toro | United States, Mexico | |
2013 | Watermark | Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky | Canada – documentary | |
The autonomous parallel section Alice nella città unfolding within Rome Film Fest dedicated to younger generations. [19] [20]
Source: [21]
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