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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. The festival programme was unveiled by Gian Luca Farinelli, the chair of the Rome Cinema Foundation on 22 September 2023. It opened with '' There's Still Tomorrow'' the directorial debut film of Italian actress, screenwriter Paola Cortellesi. 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''. 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. 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-Portugues ...
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There's Still Tomorrow
''There's Still Tomorrow'' () is a 2023 Italian period comedy-drama film, co-written and directed by Paola Cortellesi in her directorial debut. Set in postwar 1940s Italy, it follows Delia breaking traditional family patterns and aspiring to a different future, after receiving a mysterious letter. It stars Cortellesi, Romana Maggiora Vergano, Emanuela Fanelli, Valerio Mastandrea, Francesco Centorame, Vinicio Marchioni and Giorgio Colangeli. ''There's Still Tomorrow'' was shot in black-and-white in the neorealist style of the 1940s and 50s. The film won three prizes at the Rome Film Festival, the Nastro d'Argento of 2024 and is the most successful film at the Italian box office in 2023, and nominally the 10th highest-grossing film in the country of all time. Italian film critics praised its direction and screenplay in dealing with issues related to feminism and patriarchy, as well as the acting, particularly of Cortellesi, Fanelli and Mastandrea. It received a leading 19 nomin ...
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Gianfranco Rosi (director)
Gianfranco Rosi (; born 30 November 1963) is an Italian-American documentary filmmaker. His 2013 film ''Sacro GRA'' won the Golden Lion at the 70th Venice Film Festival, while his 2016 film ''Fire at Sea'' won the Golden Bear at the 66th Berlin Film Festival. Rosi is the only documentary filmmaker to win two highest awards at the three major European film festivals (Venice, Berlin, and Cannes Film Festival, Cannes) and is the only director besides Michael Haneke, Ang Lee, Ken Loach, and Jafar Panahi to do so in the 21st century. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for ''Fire at Sea''. Early life Gianfranco Rosi was born in 1963 in Asmara. His Italian father worked there as foreign section manager for a bank owned by the Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale, IRI. Because of the threat posed by the ongoing Eritrean War of Independence, his parents brought him back in Italy when he was 11. He grew up in Italy and Turkey. At age 19, Rosi dropp ...
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Isabel Coixet
Isabel Coixet Castillo (; born 9 April 1960) is a Spanish film director. She is one of the most prolific film directors of contemporary Spain, having directed twelve feature-length films since the beginning of her film career in 1988, in addition to documentary films, shorts, and commercials. Her films depart from the traditional national cinema of Spain, and help to “untangle films from their national context ... clearing the path for thinking about national film from different perspectives.” The recurring themes of “emotions, feelings, and existential conflict” coupled with her distinct visual style secure the “multifaceted (she directs, writes, produces, shoots, and acts)” filmmaker's status as a “ Catalan auteur.” Early life Isabel Coixet was born in Sant Adrià del Besòs next to Barcelona on 9 April 1960. She started filming when she was given an 8 mm camera on the occasion of her First Communion. After obtaining a BA degree in history at Barcelona Un ...
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Un Amor
''Un amor'' () is a 2023 Spanish drama film directed by Isabel Coixet from a screenplay by Coixet and Laura Ferrero based on the novel of the same name by Sara Mesa. It stars Laia Costa and Hovik Keuchkerian. Plot Freelance translator Nat settles in the countryside village of La Escapa, finding a hostile environment and a cruel landlord keen on sexist microagressions. Neighbor Andreas, locally dubbed as "the German", awkwardly offers Nat free home repairs in exchange for sexual penetration. Nat, despite early reluctance, ends up accepting, paving the way for a self-consuming passion. Cast Production Penned by Isabel Coixet and , the screenplay is an adaptation of the 2020 novel ''Un amor'' by Sara Mesa. The film was produced by Buena Pinta Media, Perdición Films and Monte Glauco AIE with the participation of RTVE, TV3, Movistar Plus+, ICAA, and Gobierno de La Rioja. Shooting locations in La Rioja included Nalda, Ribafrecha, and Villalobar. Release ''Un amor'' w ...
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Pivio And Aldo De Scalzi
Pivio (born 7 June 1958 in Genoa, Italy) and Aldo De Scalzi (born 23 January 1957 in Genoa, Italy) are two Italian composers, best known for scoring music for television and motion pictures. They are not siblings: Pivio is a pseudonym for Roberto Pischiutta, while Aldo De Scalzi is Vittorio De Scalzi's brother, founding member of New Trolls, an Italian progressive rock band. Aldo himself has written and composed many songs for New Trolls, including "Faccia di Cane", in competition at the popular Italian song contest Sanremo Music Festival in 1985. Moreover, in 1973 Aldo and Vittorio De Scalzi started together their own music studio, Studio G. and the record labels Magma and Grog Records, renowned for having hosted, during the 70s, the most talented bands from progressive rock Italian movement ( New Trolls, Picchio dal Pozzo, Alphataurus, Pholas Dactilus, Latte e miele, Mandillo, Celeste, Sigillo di Horus). From 1976 on, Aldo starts playing with the progressive rock band P ...
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Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu
Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu (; born 25 April 1963) is a French actress. She is the daughter of actor Philippe Leroy and model Françoise Laurent. She made her screen debut in the 1983 comedy-drama film ''Surprise Party (film), Surprise Party'', before starring in the 1985 comedy film ''Three Men and a Cradle''. She received a nomination for the César Award for Most Promising Actress for the latter role. Leroy-Beaulieu has played leading and supporting roles in more than 50 movies. In recent years, she played the title character in the RTBF crime comedy series ''Agathe Koltès'' (2016–2019); in 2020 she began starring as Sylvie Grateau in the Netflix comedy-drama series ''Emily in Paris''. Life and career Leroy-Beaulieu was born in Boulogne Billancourt, France. After spending her childhood in Italy where her father, Philippe Leroy, worked in the local film industry, she went to Paris at 16 to study drama against the advice of her parents; her father especially tried to keep her ...
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Abi Morgan
Abigail Louise Morgan (born December 1968) is a Welsh playwright and screenwriter known for her works for television, such as '' Sex Traffic'' and '' The Hour'', and the films ''Brick Lane'', '' The Iron Lady'', ''Shame'' and ''Suffragette''. Early life and education Abigail Louise Morgan was born in Cardiff, Wales, in December 1968. She is the daughter of actress Pat England and theatre director Gareth Morgan, who was director of the Gulbenkian Theatre in Newcastle upon Tyne (now the Northern Stage). Her parents divorced when she was a teenager. As a child, she frequently moved around the country with her mother because of the latter's career in repertory theatre. She attended seven separate schools during her childhood. After initial ambitions to become an actress, Morgan decided to become a writer when she was reading drama and literature at Exeter University.Nigel FarndaleAbi Morgan interview, ''Daily Telegraph'', 12 July 2011. She took a postgraduate writing course at ...
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Paolo Virzì
Paolo Virzì (; born 4 March 1964) is an Italian film director, writer and producer. Early life and work Virzì was born in Livorno, Italy, in 1964, as the son of a Sicilian police officer in the Carabinieri and a former singer. After spending his early childhood in Turin in the north of Italy, Virzì's family moved back to Livorno where he grew up in the working class area of "Le Sorgenti". As a small boy, he started to cultivate his lifelong passion for literature: Mark Twain and Charles Dickens were among his favourite authors and their classic "coming of age" novels would later serve as a model for his screenplays. As a teenager, Virzì's versatility was already in evidence as he threw himself into writing, directing and acting in plays for drama companies in Livorno. He formed an artistic partnership with his schoolmate Francesco Bruni, who would later become his trusted co-screenwriter. For a time, Paolo attended Literature and Philosophy classes at Pisa University and ...
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Jasmine Trinca
Jasmine Trinca (; born 24 April 1981) is an Italian actress. Life Trinca was born in Rome, Italy. She began her career in 2001, chosen by Nanni Moretti for his award-winning '' The Son's Room'', receiving the Guglielmo Biraghi prize as Best New Talent of the Year. In 2004, she won a Nastro d'Argento for '' The Best of Youth (La meglio gioventù)''. Trinca worked again with Moretti in '' Il caimano'' (2006). In 2022, Trinca made her feature-length directorial debut with ''Marcel!'', which premiered at the 75th Cannes Festival. Trinca was chosen to play Maria Montessori in a biopic of her life. The film, which also includes Leïla Bekhti, achieved distribution deals in 2024. In June 2024, Trinca was invited to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS, often pronounced ; also known as simply the Academy or the Motion Picture Academy) is a professional honorary organization in Beverly Hills, C ...
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Melvil Poupaud
Melvil Matthias Julien Poupaud (born 26 January 1973) is a French actor. Early life Poupaud was born in Paris, the son of Michel Poupaud and publicist Chantal Poupaud. He has an elder brother, Yarol, who is a musician. Career Poupaud made his film debut at the age of 10 in Raúl Ruiz (director), Raúl Ruiz's ''City of Pirates'' (1983), whom he met through his mother. He subsequently appeared in nine more of Ruiz's films, including ''The Insomniac on the Bridge'' (1985), ''Treasure Island (1986 film), Treasure Island'' (1986), ''Genealogies of a Crime'' (1997), ''Time Regained (film), Time Regained'' (1999) and ''Love Torn in a Dream'' (2000). For his roles in Jacques Doillon's ''The 15 Year Old Girl'' (1989) and Laurence Ferreira Barbosa's ''Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional'' (1993), Poupaud received two nominations for the César Award for Most Promising Actor. He starred in François Ozon's ''Time to Leave'', and co-starred with Parker Posey in Zoe Cassavetes' ''Broken ...
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Sarah Gavron
Sarah Gavron (born 20 April 1970) is a British film director. She has directed four short films, and three feature films.Garcia, Maria. "Demanding To Be Heard". ''Film Journal International''. 118. Her first film was ''This Little Life'' (2003), later followed by ''Brick Lane'' (2007) and ''Village at the End of the World'' (2012). Her film, ''Suffragette'' (2015) is based in the London of 1912 and tells the story of the Suffragette movement based on realistic historical events.Gwen Seabourne. (2016) Deeds, Words and Drama: A Review of the Film Suffragette (2015). ''Feminist Legal Studies'' 24:1, pages 115-119. Her most recent film is '' Rocks'' (2020) which she directed in a creative collaboration with the team and young cast. Biography Gavron was educated at Camden School for Girls. She graduated from the University of York with a BA in English in 1992 and an MA in film studies from Edinburgh College of Art when it was associated with Heriot-Watt University. Later, she went ...
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Gael García Bernal
Gael García Bernal (; born 30 November 1978) is a Mexican actor and filmmaker. He is known for his performances in the films ''Amores perros'' (2000), ''Y tu mamá también'' (2001), ''Bad Education (2004 film), Bad Education'' (2004), ''The Motorcycle Diaries (film), The Motorcycle Diaries'' (2004), ''Babel (film), Babel'' (2006), ''Coco (2017 film), Coco'' (2017), ''Old (film), Old'' (2021), and ''Cassandro (film), Cassandro'' (2023). He has also played music conductor Rodrigo de Souza in the television drama series ''Mozart in the Jungle'' (2014–2018), and has starred in the Disney+ special ''Werewolf by Night (TV special), Werewolf by Night'' (2022). García Bernal was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his portrayal of a young Che Guevara in ''The Motorcycle Diaries'' in 2005, and in 2016 won his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy for ''Mozart in the Jungle''. He and fellow actor Diego Luna founded ...
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