The International Rome Film Festival from October 15th to October 23rd 2009
October 4th, 2009Views:799
The International Rome Film Festival returns from October 15th to October 23rd 2009 with films, retrospectives, encounters, exhibitions, concerts and the attendance of great national and international stars.
The pulsating heart of the Festival will be the Auditorium Parco della Musica - designed by Renzo Piano - and the neighboring Cinema Village.
There are fourteen films in competition in the Official Selection section, of which three are Italian: Alza la Testa by Alessandro Angelini, with Sergio Castellitto, L’Uomo che Verrà by Giorgio Diritti with Claudio Casadio and Viola di Mare with Valeria Solarino. But there will also be space for Jason Reitman - who returns to Rome after the success of Juno with a new film Up In The Air, staring George Clooney and Vera Farmiga - and Danis Tanovícwith his film Triage with Colin Farrelland Paz Vega. Also, Helen Mirren, great protagonist of the film The Last Station by Michael Hoffman.
The new edition of Focus (Occhio sul mondo) is dedicated to the theme of the global environment, in particular, climate change. The program previews twelve events exploring these themes, including a multi-media exhibit, Cape Farewell: Art & Climate Change, the presence of Miranda Richardson who will discuss the film Turtle: The Incredible Journey with the director Nick Stringer.
The Festival is not only film, but also events highlighting the legacies from the worlds of art and culture in general.
After eighty years of his birth and twenty years since his death, the Festival will remember Sergio Leone, among one of the artists most identified with film in Italy and worldwide, through a exhibition-event, Sergio Leone, a fresh vision, which will be inaugurated by Maestro Ennio Morricone.
Then there will be, in a worldwide premiere, the film-dossier dedicated to the life of artist Antonio Ligabue and an important exhibition, at the Archeological Museum Auditorium Parco della Muisca with approximately eighty pieces of work curated from noted museums and private collections titled, “Luci del Cinema su Antonio Ligabue”.
