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18th Rome Film Festival

The 18th Rome Film Festival took place from 18 to 29 October 2023 in the Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome.[1] The festival programme was unveiled by Gian Luca Farinelli, the chair of the Rome Cinema Foundation on 22 September 2023.[2] It opened with There's Still Tomorrow the directorial debut film of Italian actress, screenwriter Paola Cortellesi.[3]

Festa del Cinema di Roma
Official poster
Opening filmThere's Still Tomorrow by Paola Cortellesi
LocationAuditorium Parco della Musica, Rome
Founded2006
DirectorsFrancesca Via
Hosted by
  • Cinema Per Roma Foundation
  • Rome City of Film
Artistic directorPaola Malanga
Festival dateOpening: October 18, 2023 (2023-10-18)
Closing: October 29, 2023 (2023-10-29)
LanguageInternational
Websitewww.romacinemafest.it
Rome Film Festival

The official image of the event was dedicated to Anna Magnani, on the occasion of fiftieth anniversary of her death, which was taken from the press conference for the Oscar for Best Actress in 1956, awarded for her performance in 1955 film The Rose Tattoo.[4] In addition to the main screenings at the Renzo Piano-designed auditorium, screenings were also held in various other venues, including a program of fresh films and talks in local penitentiaries.[5]

The award ceremony took place on 28 October at the Auditorium Parco della Musica. Progressive Cinema Competition Award for Best Film was awarded to Toll, a Brazilian-Portuguese drama film by Carolina Markowicz. Shigeru Umebayashi, a Japanese composer, and Isabella Rossellini, an Italian-American actress and model, were honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award.

Events

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  • Paso Doble: Dialogue and confrontation on stage between two authors.

Jury

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Progressive Cinema Competition Award

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Gael García Bernal, Jury President

Best First Work Award BNL BNP Paribas

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  • Paolo Virzì, director (Italy) – president
  • Adeline Fontan Tessaur, producer (France)
  • Abi Morgan, screenwriter (United Kingdom)

Ugo Tognazzi Award for Best Comedy

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  • Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, actress (France) – president
  • Alessandro Aronadio, director and screenwriter (Italy)
  • Lisa Nur Sultan, screenwriter (Italy)

SIAE Cinema Award

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  • Nicola Guaglianone, screenwriter (Italy) – president
  • Carlo Cresto-Dina, film producer (Italy)
  • Pivio, Italian composer

Official sections

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Progressive Cinema Competition – Visions for the World of Tomorrow

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Freestyle

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Film

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  • Accattaroma, directed by Daniele Costantini (Italy)
  • They Lost the Pianist, directed by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal (Spain, France) – animation
  • The Immortals, directed by Anne Riitta Ciccone (Italy)
  • Jeʹvida, directed by Katja Gauriloff (Finland)
  • Mother, Couch, directed by Niclas Larsson (United States, Denmark, Sweden) – first work
  • The Persian Version, directed by Maryam Keshavarz (United States)
  • In Search, directed by Giulio Base (Italy)
  • Signs of Life, directed by Leandro Picarella (Italy, Switzerland) – documentary
  • Too Blue, directed by Filippo Barbagallo (Italy) – first work
  • Wanted, directed by Fabrizio Ferraro (Italy)

TV series

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Great Public

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Special screenings

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  • The Compass - The Star Collector, directed by Andrea Soldani (Italy) – documentary
  • Enigma Rol, directed by Anselma Dell'Olio (Italy) – documentary
  • High & Low - John Galliano, directed by Kevin Macdonald (France, United States, United Kingdom) – documentary
  • The Empire of Nature. A Night at the Colosseum Park, directed by Luca Lancise and Marco Gentili (Italy) – documentary
  • Me, Us and Gaber, directed by Riccardo Milani (Italy) – documentary
  • Kripton, directed by Francesco Munzi (Italy) – documentary
  • Maria Callas. Letters and Memoirs , directed by Tom Volf and Yannis Dimolitsas (Italy) – documentary
  • The Eternal Memory, directed by Maite Alberdi (Chile) – documentary
  • Misericordia, directed by Emma Dante (Italy)
  • Mur, directed by Kasia Smutniak (Italy) – documentary
  • May I Come in? An ode to Naples, directed by Trudie Styler (Italy) – documentary
  • Rome, Holy and Damned, directed by Roberto D'Agostino, Marco Giusti and Daniele Ciprì (Italy) – documentary
  • Four Fifths, directed by Stefano Urbanetti (Italy) – documentary
  • Rule of Two Walls, directed by David Gutnik (Ukraine) – documentary
  • Carrozzanti and spiritelli. 50 years of life of the Teatro Franco Parenti, directed by Michele Mally (Italy) – documentary
  • Many Faces in Memory, directed by Francesca Comencini (Italy)
  • Unfitting, directed by Giovanna Mezzogiorno (Italy) – short film
  • Men on the March, directed by Peter Marcias (Italy) – documentary
  • Via Sicilia 57/59. Giorgio Albertazzi. Theatre is life, directed by Pino Strabioli and Fabio Masi (Italy) – documentary
  • Sugar - Sugar Fornaciari, directed by Valentina Zanella and Giangiacomo De Stefano (Italy) – documentary

Absolute beginners

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  • Boatman - Voyage on the Ganges, directed by Gianfranco Rosi (Italy, United States, 1993) – documentary
  • Il Camorrista - The Series, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore – TV series, episodes 1 and 4 (Italy, 1986)

Best of 2023

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History of cinema

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Homage to Isabella Rossellini

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  • Darwin, What?, directed by Isabella Rossellini, Paul David Magid (Greece, 2020) – short film
  • Fox Film, directed by Isabella Rossellini (United States) – short film
  • Green Porno, directed by Jody Shapiro and Isabella Rossellini, 18 episodes (United States, 2008-2009) – TV series
  • Mammas, directed by Isabella Rossellini, 10 episodes (United States, 2013) – TV series
  • Seduce Me, directed by Isabella Rossellini, 10 episodes (United States, 2010) – TV series
  • Blue Velvet, directed by David Lynch (United States, 1986)
  • Death Becomes Her, directed by Robert Zemeckis (United States, 1992)
  • Left Luggage, directed by Jeroen Krabbé (United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, 1998)
  • My Dad Is 100 Years Old, directed by Guy Maddin (Canada, 2005) – short film
  • The Saddest Music in the World, directed by Guy Maddin (Canada, 2003)
  • Another Side of Sunday Isabella Rossellini's Reports from New York – TV Program
  • Autumn Sonata, directed by Ingmar Bergman (France, Germany, Sweden, 1978) – chosen by Isabella Rossellini
  • Stromboli, directed by Roberto Rossellini (Italy, 1950) – chosen by Isabella Rossellini
  • A Season with Isabella Rossellini, directed by Marian Lacombe (France, 2023) – documentary
  • La chimera, directed by Alice Rohrwacher (Italy, France, Switzerland) – Best of 2023 section

Homage to Shigeru Umebayashi

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Shigeru Umebayashi is a Japanese composer.

Homage to Maria Grazia Buccella

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Maria Grazia Buccella is an Italian actress, glamour model and beauty pageant titleholder.

Homage to Jean-Luc Godard

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Jean-Luc Godard a French and Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic.

  • Godard par Godard, directed by Florence Platarets (France, 2023) – documentary

Tribute to Lorenza Mazzetti

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Lorenza Mazzetti was an Italian film director, novelist, photographer and painter.

  • The Country Doctor, directed by Lorenza Mazzet (USA, 1953) – short film
  • K (Metamorphosis), directed by Lorenza Mazzetti (UK, 1954) – short film
  • Together, directed by Lorenza Mazzetti (United Kingdom, 1956) – medium-length film
  • Together with Lorenza Mazzetti, directed by Brighid Lowe (Argentina, 2023) – documentary

Restorations

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Documentaries

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  • American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective, directed by Dominique Milano (United States)
  • Chambre 999, directed by Lubna Playoust (France)
  • Une chronique americanine, directed by Alexandre Gouzo and Jean-Claude Taki (France)
  • Fellini, l'entretien retrouvé, directed by Jean-Christophe Rosé (France)
  • Me, the Pipe and the Pizzas, directed by Ugo Gregoretti (Italy)
  • Joseph Losey, l'outsider, directed by Dante Desarthe (France)
  • Kennedy in Rome, directed by Ciro Giorgini (Italy, 1999)
  • He was Trinity, directed by Dario Marani (Italy)
  • Our Monument Valley, directed by Alberto Crespi and Steve Della Casa (Italy)
  • Deep Silver, directed by Giancarlo Rolandi and Steve Della Casa (Italy)
  • That Damned Film About Virzì, directed by Stefano Petti (Italy)
  • The Return of Maciste, directed by Maurizio Sciarra (Italy)
  • The Voice Without a Face, directed by Filippo Soldi (Italy)

Awards and winners

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Shigeru Umebayashi, Lifetime Achievement Award
 
Isabella Rossellini, Lifetime Achievement Award
 
Haley Bennett, Progressive Lifetime Achievement Award
 
Camila Morrone, Progressive Lifetime Achievement Award

Progressive Cinema Competition

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Joachim Lafosse, Best Director Award
  • BNL BNP Paribas Prize for Best First Film: Cottontail, Patrick Dickinson (United Kingdom, Japan)
  • Special Mention Sta Kamma August, Herbert Nordrum for The Hypnosis
  • SIAE Cinema Prize Il primo figlio, Mara Fondacaro, Italy

Alice nella città

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  • Best Film: The Other Son, Juan Sebastián Quebrada, Colombia, France, Argentina
  • Raffaella Fioretta Prize for Best Italian Film in the Panorama Italy Competition Desiré, Mario Vezza, Italy
  • Special Jury Prize Bangarang, Giulio Mastromauro, Italy
  • 'The Hollywood Reporter Rome Prize To Leslie Michael Morris, United States
  • Special Mention for Best Actor Miguel Gonzalez for The Other Son
  • Special Mention for Best Actress Mia McKenna-Bruce for How to Have Sex, United Kingdom, Greece, Belgium
  • Special Mention for Progressive Direction Gianluca Santoni for Io e il secco, Italy, Costa Rica
  • RB Casting Prize for Best Young Italian Actor Amanda Campana for Suspicious Minds, Italy, France
  • Onde Corte Audience Award Fake Shot, Francesco Castellaneta, Italy

Shorts Film Days

  • SIAE Prize for Best Project Presented in the Unbox Laboratory Chiedo scusa, Francesco Piras, Italy

References

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  1. ^ "La Selezione Ufficiale della Festa del Cinema 2023" [The Official Selection of the 2023 Film Fest]. Cinema Foundation for Rome (in Italian). 22 September 2023. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
  2. ^ Scarpa, Vittoria (25 September 2023). "The 18th Rome Film Fest is very nearly ready to go". Cineuropa. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
  3. ^ ""C'è ancora domani" is the opening film of the Fest 2023". Cinema Foundation for Rome. 21 July 2023. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
  4. ^ "Anna Magnani protagonist of the 2023 official poster". Cinema Foundation for Rome. 5 September 2023. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
  5. ^ Nick Vivarelli (24 October 2023). "Rome Film Fest Brings Movie Screenings to Jails, Housing Projects and Ancient Aqueducts in the Eternal City". Variety. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
  6. ^ "Relive the masterclass and the encounters of Rome Film Fest 2023". Cinema Foundation for Rome. 22 May 2024. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  7. ^ Scarpa, Vittoria (30 October 2023). "Toll triumphs at the 18th Rome Film Fest". Cineuropa. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
  8. ^ "The winners of the Rome Film Fest 2023". Cinema Foundation for Rome. 23 October 2023. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
  9. ^ Torcasio, Marco (19 October 2023). "Il compositore Shigeru Umebayashi premiato alla Festa del Cinema di Roma 2023: ecco le sue colonne sonore più belle" [Composer Shigeru Umebayashi awarded at the 2023 Rome Film Fest: here are his best soundtracks]. Vogue Italia (in Italian). Retrieved 30 September 2024.
  10. ^ "Isabella Rossellini, premio alla carriera, 'lo dedico ai miei'" [Isabella Rossellini, Lifetime Achievement Award, 'I Dedicate It to My Family']. Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (in Italian). 20 October 2023. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
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