(3 Feb) – Corsica will host a special week for the lovers of cinema: from 4 to 11 February, in Bastia, will be held the 24th edition of the Festival du cinéma italien. Among the films in competition “Una vita tranquilla” by Claudio Cuppellini, “Terraferma” by Emanuele Crialese, “Una sconfinata giovinezza” by Pupi Avati, “Scialla!” By Francesco Bruni, “Immaturi” by Paolo Genovese, among the films out of competition Instead, “Manuale d’amore 3” by Giovanni Veronesi, “Oggi sposi” by Luca Lucini and “Vallanzasca” by Michele Placido. In the category “Cinema Memory”, will be screened “Amici miei” by Mario Monicelli and “Sedotta e abbandonata” by Pietro Germi. In the category “Cine Jeunesse”, “Senza arte nè parte” of Giovanni Albanese and “Cose dell’altro mondo” by Francesco Patierno. Guests of the festival, the filmmakers and Gennaro Nunziante and Giovanni Veronesi. In the last edition, the Young Jury Award and Audience Award were assigned to “Diciotto anni dopo” by Edoardo Leo; Alba Rohrwacher won the award for best actress in “La solitudine dei numeri primi” by Saverio Costanzo, and that for best actor award went to Toni Servillo in “Gorbaciof” by Stefano Incerti. To win the Grand Prize of the Jury was the film “L’uomo che verrà” by Giorgio Diritti. (Roc)
ITALIAN CINEMA BACK ON FOREIGN SCREENS
After a twenty years absence, italian cinema comes back to foreign movie theaters with a much more regularity. Even if not always in the main fields, italian films features international festivals, affirming a new interest in the italian film industry and supporting the foreign marketing of films. This is shown by a study of Anica (National Association of audio-visual film industries), which noted that “a 45 to 55% of productions is distributed outside of national borders every year”. In February, month of the Oscars and the Berlin Film Festival, italian cinema will be present in various film shows around the world, as the “Festival International du Film d’Amour de Mons”, in Belgium from 24th February to 2nd March, the “Jameson Dublin International Film Festival”, in Ireland from 16th to 26th February and the “Los Angeles-Italy, film, fashion and art festival” in the californian city from 19th to 25th February.
