Rome Film Fest to be held from 15-26 October.
The 2025 Rome Film Fest provides cinema followers 12 days of film premieres, screenings, masterclasses and particular friends within the Italian capital from 15-26 October.
The Festa del Cinema di Roma, whose inventive director is Paola Malanga, is predicated on the Auditorium Parco della Musica – Ennio Morricone, with occasions additionally going down in different cultural venues across the capital.
Among essentially the most anticipated friends are Jennifer Lawrence, the star of Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love, and Christoph Waltz, who will probably be showing in Dracula, alongside Italian actress Matilda De Angelis.
Actors James McAvoy and Brian Cox may even be there, each making their directorial debuts with California Schemin’ and Glenrothan, respectively.
The jury will probably be chaired by Paola Cortellesi, and two Lifetime Achievement Awards will probably be offered: the primary to Iranian director Jafar Panahi, offered by Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore; the second to award-winning movie producer Lord David Puttnam.
The competition will open with Riccardo Milani‘s movie La vita va così, starring Virginia Raffaele and Geppi Cucciari, recounting 20 years of neighborhood life in Sardinia.
There are 18 movies in competitors, 4 of that are Italian:
40 Seconds by Vincenzo Alfieri, based mostly on the homicide of younger Willy Monteiro; L’accident de piano by Quentin Dupieux; Chang ye Jiang Jin by Wang Tong; Esta isla by Lorraine Jones Molina; Good boy by Jan Komasa; Kota by Gyorgy Palfi; Left-handed Girl by Shin Ching Tsou; Mad payments to pay by Joel Alfonso Vargas; Miss Carbon by Agustina Macri, and Nino by Pauline Loques.
Gli occhi degli altri by Andrea De Sica; Our hero, Balthazar by Oscar Boyson; Re-Creation by Jim Sheridan and David Merriman; the documentary Roberto Rossellini, più di una vita; Sciatunostro by Leandro Picarella; Six jours ce printemps-là by Joachim Lafosse; The belongings you kill by Alireza Khatami; and Winter of the crow by Kasia Adamik.
The competition additionally contains Palestine 36, a historic drama by Annemarie Jacir concerning the Palestinian revolt of 1936–39 in opposition to British colonial rule; Anna, Monica Guerritore’s movie concerning the lifetime of Anna Magnani; Rino Gaetano – Sempre più blu, Giorgio Verdelli’s documentary about the Italian singer; and Hamnet by director Chloé Zhao who explores the lifetime of Shakespeare’s spouse Agnes after the dying of their son.
Other movies to be careful for embody Couture, produced by and starring Angelina Jolie; Moss & Freud, produced by Kate Moss; and Paolo Virzì‘s new movie Cinque secondi, starring Valerio Mastandrea.
The programme options tributes to Pier Paolo Pasolini, particular results genius Carlo Rambaldi, and photographer Franco Pinna whose iconic picture of the set of Fellini’s 1965 movie Giulietta degli Spiriti is the official poster of the competition.
“This 12 months we’re presenting greater than 150 titles from 38 completely different nations” – the president of Fondazione Cinema per Roma Salvatore Nastasi mentioned – “The objective is to surpass final 12 months’s 110,000 attendees and make the competition a house for impartial filmmakers. Looking on the movie record, I believe we have achieved that.”
For full particulars of the programme and tickets see the competition’s official web site.
