Two-time Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey will open the twenty first version of the Lucca Film Festival, going down within the Tuscan metropolis from September 20 to twenty-eight, 2025. The American actor and producer will obtain a Lifetime Achievement Award on September 20 at Cinema Astra, the place he will even current the world premiere of his newest movie 1780, joined by director Dustin Fairbanks and producer Spero Stamboulis.
The following day, September 21, Spacey will lead a public masterclass, providing audiences the possibility to revisit a profession that spans greater than 4 a long time, with acclaimed roles in The Usual Suspects, American Beauty, Seven, L.A. Confidential and the sequence House of Cards.
Alongside Spacey, the 2025 Lucca Film Festival will welcome main figures of Italian and worldwide cinema. Director Gianni Amelio shall be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award, whereas actor and filmmaker Michele Riondino will current his newest characteristic La valle dei sorrisi. Director Pietro Marcello shall be celebrated with a particular screening of his new movie Duse, devoted to the legendary Italian actress.
The competition program contains two worldwide competitions for characteristic movies and quick movies, with jurors similar to Mimmo Calopresti, Chiara Caselli, Fabrice Du Welz, Isabella Ragonese and Lamberto Bava. Special occasions embrace an homage to David Lynch, the Italian premiere of Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut Eleanor the Great, and screenings devoted to sustainability with the “Lucca Film Festival for Future” shorts competitors.
As in previous editions, Lucca will even host “Lucca Effetto Cinema” on September 27, a night that transforms the historic heart right into a stage for dwell performances impressed by nice movie classics. The closing evening on September 28 will characteristic a screening of Demoni by Lamberto Bava, marking its fortieth anniversary.
The Lucca Film Festival has established itself as one in every of Tuscany’s cultural highlights, having beforehand welcomed Oliver Stone, David Lynch, Susan Sarandon, Isabelle Huppert, Willem Dafoe, and Paolo Sorrentino, amongst many others.
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