All the awards ceremonies of the 8th Rome Film Festival Tsui Hark receives the Maverick Director Award The director presents his new film, Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon 3D, and follows up with a Masterclass Tomorrow, November 16, the Rome Film Festival will hand out the official awards for its eighth edition.  [ Read More ]

Silvio Berlusconi rose from cruise ship entertainer to become a successful entrepreneur, and then Prime Minister of Italy. Suddenly, when he was just a hair’s breadth away from attaining the highest and most sought-after office in Italy, the Quirinale, his ascent came to an abrupt halt. “SB I Knew Him Well” is a documentary that explores the  [ Read More ]

  “Le Guetteur is like a French version of my Crime Novel“. Italian Director Michele Placido told us about his upcoming movie, 'Le Guetteur', presented at the Rome Film Festival 2012 out of competition. An extremely strong spy story about killers, bandits and policemen, in Paris, with co-production by Rai Cinema, RTBF, Canal+, Cine+ and  [ Read More ]

Anna (Noomi Rapace) and her 8-year-old son, Anders, are on the run from Anders’ violent father. They move to a secret address in a giant apartment building. Anna is terrified that her exhusband will find them and buys a babycall to make sure Anders is safe while he sleeps. But strange noises echoe in the  [ Read More ]

“Time to grow up“, we must say. This forthcoming movie by Director Vincent Lannoo, “Little Glory“, presented in “Alice nella Città” section of the Rome Film Festival 2011, revelead emotional darkness and the need of growing for a 19 years old young man, problematic character, full of doubts and anger, first of all. Starring Cameron  [ Read More ]

Synopsis THE LADY is the extraordinary story of Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband, Michael Aris. It is also the epic story of the peaceful quest of the woman who is at the core of Burma‘s democracy movement. Despite distance, long separations, and a dangerously hostile regime, their love endures until the very end.  [ Read More ]

Focus on Great Britain Meetings, films, retrospectives, exhibitions and a red carpet specially created by the artist responsible for the décor of the Royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Directors Terence Davies and David Hare, musician Michael Nyman and writer Hanif Kureishi will be headlining the Focus section which this year the International Rome  [ Read More ]

Presented at the last Rome Film Festival, in November 2010 (also winner of the Golden Prize for Best Movie), written and directed by Olias Barco (“Snowboarder”), “Kill Me Please” is a Grotesque and macabre today story in black and white about Doctor Kruger, headmaster of a very uncommon clinic, where, despite the Hippocrates Oath about  [ Read More ]

 ROMA FILM FESTIVAL / day2: “Animal Kingdom”, Loach, Marion Cotillard, Taniguchi, John Landis e Fanny Ardant E’ il giorno delle bugie bianche, del fumetto che diventa cinema, della geniale brutalità dell’underground australiano e della comicità horror. Così l’astro nascente del mondo della regia francese, Guillaume Canet (già visto come co-protagonista in “Last Night”) presenta per  [ Read More ]

The Festival’s Business Street and its “cases”: Sorrentino, The American and The Tourist   Paolo Sorrentino’s new film, This Must Be the Place featuring Sean Penn, is one of the production “cases” which will be examined during the workshop organized by Anica in collaboration with the Ministry of Economic Development and Ice, within the section of  [ Read More ]