The Rome Film Fest has started and we couldn’t be any more excited!
Are you in Rome right now? If your answer is no, you might want to rethink that. From the 26th of October until the 5th of November, the Rome International Film Festival is definitely where you want to be, especially if there is a spark of film geek in you! Cinema aficionados as we are, we couldn’t pass on this opportunity to tell you all about this incredible event. Find out all about it below!
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From the 26th of October until the 5th of November, Rome will be the stage for the 12th edition of Rome Film Fest. The event will be held at the Auditorium Parco della Musica and in several other venues throughout the city of Rome. You can visit their website for more info on this matter.
The international festival has been organized by Fondazione Cinema per Roma, with the support of the Founding Members and the main partner, BNL Gruppo BNP Paribas.
The Auditorium Parco della Musica has been, since 2006, the location where the red carpet events and all the major film screening sessions happen. However, the Rome international film festival has many other events happening around the city, such as master classes, tributes, retrospectives, panels and other special events.
What can you see at the Rome Film Fest?
For the 12th edition of the film fest, movie aficionados will be able to see multiple premieres and screenings. From original and outstanding Italian film productions to French, Dutch and American features, this will be one of those events you definitely shouldn’t miss! Here are some of the movies we are most excited about:
Hostiles, Scott Cooper, USA
Hostiles with Christian Bale will be the opening film of the festival. Here’s a summary: “1892. The legendary army captain Joseph J. Blocker reluctantly agrees to escort a dying Cheyenne Indian chief and his family back to their tribal lands. The two erstwhile antagonists face a voyage that is a genuine odyssey: a thousand-mile march from Fort Berringer, an isolated outpost in New Mexico, to the prairies of Montana. During the journey they meet a young widow whose family has been murdered in those very prairies, and now they will all struggle to stay alive in that pitiless landscape, with its hostile Comanche tribes.”
Detroit, Kathryn Bigelow, USA
“The story is inspired by the bloody riots that shook Detroit in 1967. The streets of the city became the scene of a massacre perpetrated by the police, in which three African-Americans lost their lives and hundreds of people were seriously wounded. The next riot led to unprecedented disorders, forcing a late coming to terms with what happened on that ignominious day fifty years ago.”
Una Questione Privata, Paolo e Vittorio Taviani, Italy
“Over the Rainbow” was three young people’s favorite album in the summer of ’43. They met at teenager Fulvia’s summer house. Milton and Giorgio, the former thoughtful and reserved, the latter attractive and outgoing, fall hard for Fulvia, already a woman, who strings them both along. One year later Milton is a resistance fighter who finds the villa shuttered. The caretaker recognizes him and insinuates that there was something between Fulvia and Giorgia. This stops Milton in his tracks. The resistance, his friendships, all mean nothing. Wildly jealous, he needs the truth, and sets out across the foggy Langhe hills to find Giorgio, whom the fascists, however, have taken prisoner.”
Stronger, David Gordon Green, USA
“The true story of Jeff Bauman, an ordinary guy whose story moved the entire world and turned him into a symbol of hope after the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013. Jeff’s heroic and deeply personal journey to healing will put his family ties to the test, define the pride of a whole community, and give him the courage to overcome incredible adversity as he tries to rebuild his life with his partner Erin.”
Mon Garçon, Christian Carion, France
“Passionate about his job, Julien travels abroad a great deal. Because he is hardly ever home, his prolonged absences ended his marriage years ago. During a stopover in France, he discovers a message from his ex-wife, in tears, on the answering machine: their seven-year-old son has disappeared during a camping trip in the mountains with his school. Julien rushes to look for him and nothing can stop him.”
Last Flag Flying, Richard Linklater, USA
“In 2003, 30 years after they served together in the Vietnam War, former Navy Corps medic Larry “Doc” Shepherd re-unites with former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller on a different type of mission: to bury Doc’s son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War. Doc decides to forgo burial at Arlington Cemetery and, with the help of his old buddies, takes the casket on a bittersweet trip up the East Coast to his home in suburban New Hampshire. Along the way, Doc, Sal and Mueller reminisce and come to terms with shared memories of the war that continues to shape their lives.”
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