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Sunday October 3, 16:00 - 700 times Dante curated by FanitudinƎ

 

On 3 October at 4 pm, at the Meeting Room of the Hotel San Giorgio, a representative space will take place on the theme “700 times Dante”, organized by the FanitudinƎ group, founded by Lidia Riviello (poetess and Rai’s author), Maria Flavia Del Curatolo (theater director) and Andrea Donato (screenwriter and TV graphic designer).

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Sunday October 3, 20:30 - ITFF CAREER AWARD 2021 to FEDERICO MOCCIA

Son of Italian scriptwriter and movie director Giuseppe Moccia, and his childhood was linked to the world of cinema through his father, which he wrote in several Italian comedies of the 70s and 80s. It started in the world of work from his father at age 19 as assistant director Attila flagello di Dio (1982) .1 Five years later he directed his first film, Palla to the center, but the lack of success he had caused Moccia wrote screenplays and directed several series. In 1992 he wrote his first novel Three Meters Above Heaven (Tre Metri Sopra il Cielo/Tres metros sobre el cielo) which was rejected by several publishers and releases in a small edition by "Il Ventaglio". Again without success, in 1996 wrote and directed the film Classe mista 3A and returned to the world of television.

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Sunday October 3, 20:30 - ITFF MASTERPIECES OF CINEMA AWARD 2021 to VEIT HELMER

Writer-director-producer Veit Helmer shot his first film at the age of 14.
He studied film directing at Munich Filmschool and became famous with his cutting edge short films „Surprise“, shown at Cannes Film Festival and „Tour Eiffel“ (70mm), presented at Venice.
His first feature film "Tuvalu" (1999), starring Denis Lavant, was invited to 62 festivals, including San Sebastian and Berlin.
His cult movie “Absurdistan” premiered in Sundance competition.

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Sunday October 3, 20:30 - ITFF AWARD FOR MEDIA 2021 to FRANCESCA CANTINI

One of the main anchorwomens at TG5 with the morning edition called "Prima Pagina". She follow the most important news with several topics: actuality, economy, sport and she travels around the world doing important interviews, with prominent figures from the political world, sporting, economic and entrepreneurial.

Sunday October 3, 20:30 - ITFF CINEMA PROJECT AWARD 2021 to SALVO SPOTO

Sicilian author, documentary maker and director, after a long experience in the television authoring sector, he is the personal manager of Bruno Barbieri. Salvo Spoto has other films and shorts to his credit, presented to several
National Film Festivals and multiple award winners.

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Friday October 1, 20:30 - ITFF and Sport: an Homage

The festival will pays homage to three great sports personalities representing the numerous local excellences that bring the name of the city of Civitavecchia up to the world.
A special award will be given to: the yachtsman Mattia Camboni, the boxer Emiliano Marsili and the car driver Nicholas Risitano.

Saturday October 2, 21:00 - Vera De Verdad - Io sono Vera directed by Beniamino Catena

VERA DE VERDAD - IO SONO VERA

Directed by Beniamino Catena

Cast: Marta Gastini, Davide Iacopini, Anita Caprioli, Paolo Pierobon, Manuela Martelli, Caterina Bussa, Marcelo Alonso

Country: Italy, Chile

Year: 2020

Running time: 1:50:00 

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Wednesday September 29, 20:30 - Exclusive premiére - Selfiemania

Directed  by : Elisabetta Pellini, Francesco Colangelo, Willem Zaeyen, Elly Senger-Weiss

Production Year: 2021
Country:  Italy, Austria, Russia, USA
Cast: Caterina Murino, Giorgio Colangeli, Bianca Nappi, Milena Vukotic, Andrea Roncato, Maurilio Leto, Lorenzo Marinozzi, Cinzia Diddi, Max Gruber, Alex Sparrow,
Ieva Andrejevaite, David Fears Jr., Katharina Holoubek, Philipp Karner, Oleg Taktarov, Lili Epply, Stefan Pohl
Screenplay: Elisabetta Pellini, Giancarlo Scarchilli, Francesco Colangelo, Willem Zaeyen, Max Gruber, Elly Senger-Weiss
Cinematography: Blasco Giurato, Gianni Mammolotti, Andrey Vlasov, Hermann Dunzendorfer
Edited by: Ugo De Rossi, Marco Spoletini, Bettina Mazakarini
Music: Savio Riccardi, Louis Siciliano, Thomas Kathriner
Production: Stemo Production, Elly Films, Odysseya-Cinema
Distribution: Stemo Production
Running Time: 01:18:00

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Friday October 1, 20:30 - I nostri fantasmi directed by Alessandro Capitani

I NOSTRI FANTASMI

Directed by Alessandro Capitani

Cast: Michele Riondino, Hadas Yaron, Paolo Pierobon, Orlando Forte, Alessandro Haber

Country: Italy

Year: 2021

Running Time: 1:45:41 

 

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Wednesday 29 September, 20:30 - ITFF CINEMA AWARD 2021 to MASSIMO WERTMÜLLER

Nephew of the director Lina Wertmüller, after making her debut in the theater in 1976 with Luci di Bohéme, a show presented at the Venice Biennale, in 1978 he began attending the Gigi Proietti's workshop for scenic exercises. Together with his classmates Paola Tiziana Cruciani, Shereen Sabet, Rodolfo Laganà, Patrizia Loreti and Silvio Vannucci he founded the comedy group La Zavorra, active in cabaret theater and television entertainment until 1984. He appeared in more than sixty films since 1978. Among his other works on television: The team, RIS Roma, Squadra Antimafia, 1992 and Mina Settembre. Recently he was in the cast of the film America Latina directed by di Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenzo,  screened for the  competition at the 78th Venice International Film Festival.

 

Wednesday September 29, 20:30 - ITFF FASHION AWARD 2021 to ANTONELLA ELIA

Born in Turin, Elia started her career as a model and made her television debut in 1989 in a minor role in the TV-series The Betrothed. She became first known as the assistant of Corrado in the Canale 5 variety show La Corrida, a role she had between 1990 and 1993. In 1991 she was cast in the successful variety television Non è la Rai, and between 1993 and 1996 she was sidekick of Raimondo Vianello in the Italia 1 program Pressing.

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Wednesday September 29, 20:30 - ITFF CAREER AWARD 2021 to MILENA VUKOTIC

Vukotic was born in Rome, to a Montenegrin comedy playwright father and an Italian pianist/composer mother. As a child she studied acting and classical dance, in Italy and France. A brilliant character actress, Vukotic became well known for her role of Pina Fantozzi in the Fantozzi series of comedy films (winning a Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Fantozzi in paradiso) and, later in her life, for the role of Grandma Enrica in the TV series Un medico in famiglia.

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ITFF 2021 Second Leg - Friday July 27, 20:45: Film Screening The Right to Happiness directed by Claudio Rossi Massimi

The second leg of the 10th ITFF  will take place in Allumiere with the screening of the film  The Right to Happiness directed by Claudio Rossi Massimi in the presence of the cast and producer Lucia Macale, in the courtyard of Palazzo Camerale at 8.45pm. 

All the procedures required by the anti COVID-19 legislation will be applied.

Free admission, booking seats via email is required.

 

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ITFF 2021 First Leg Santa Severa - Sunday July 25, 20:45: Film screening Alida Valli: in her own words directed by Mimmo Verdesca

 

 A special event for the first leg of 10th International Tour Film Festival with the film screening of Alida Valli: in her own words directed by Mimmo Verdesca, recurring the Centenary of the birth of the great actress Alida Valli. The film was presented in Cannes Classics Documentary category at Cannes Film Festival 2020 and now it will be screened at courtyard of the Barrozze of the Castle of Santa Severa, at 8.45pm. All the procedures required by the anti COVID-19 legislation will be applied.

Free admission, booking seats via email is required.

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Sunday 11 October, 14:00 - Out of Competition Film Screening - Animated Documentaries program curated by Rudnik International Debut Documentary Film Festival (Russia)

   

For three years now, in the city of Sviyazhsk near Kazan, the International Festival of the Debut Documentary Film Rudnik has been held. All three years, in parallel with the festival, two schools open their doors: Documentary Film School and Documentary Animation School.The school of documentary animation is led by Dina Goder, Aleksandr Rodionov and Evgenia Zhirkova. For a week of intensive study, each of the groups of school participants manage to shoot their short animation documentary draft and most often these are personal stories. 

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Sunday 11 October, 15:00 - Out of Competition Film Screening -Tourism Films from Montenegro curated by Stars of Wild Beauty – International Tourism Film Festival (Montenegro)

Montenegro is an awesome tourist destination and it has the need for awesome video presentation, so the festival is organised in that manner.  Discover the Montenegrin attractions and landscapes, thanks to this selection of tourist short films curated by Miki Dragicevic, Founder and President of the Stars Wild of Beauty International Tourism Festival.

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Saturday 10 October, 10:30: Conference "Aware and Active Citizens for the Landscape and the Environment"

 

Saturday 10 October 2020, at 10.30, in the Meeting1 room of the Hotel San Giorgio in Civitavecchia, in the presence of Roberto Morassut, Undersecretary for the Environment, will be held on Conference "Citizens aware and active for the landscape and the environment" by of the Association of Teachers of Legal and Economic Sciences (APIDGE). With the contribution of experts from the world of Culture and Education the most significant thematic ideas offered by the participants in the 2020 edition of the ITFF In a second part instead, with the participation of members of the Jury of the competition reserved for schools. Video excerpts will be shown finalists and the winners will be announced. 

PROGRAMME

10:30 am: Meeting Room for Aware and Active Citizens for the Landscape and the Environment

10:30 am: Greeting addresses Gaetano D’Angelo (APIDGE Lazio)

10:45 am: Seminar "The Environment and Landscape in the new Civic Education"

with

Patrizia De Socio (Ministry of Education)
Anna Maria Fausto (University of Tuscia)
Paolo Ciri (APIDGE Umbria)
Roberta Marconi (I. C. Mozart, Rome)

11:45 am: Round table "Aware and Active Citizens for the Landscape and the Environment 

Miriam Mirolla (Academy of Fine Arts Rome)
Giacomo Ebner (Court of Rome)
Ezio Sina (APIDGE National President)
Conducts Giacomo Barelli (Caffeina Festival)

Following screening of the finalist works of the IX edition of ITFF

 

1.00 pm: speech by Roberto Morassut (Undersecretary of State of the Ministry of the Environment)

Following: Announcement of the winners of the IX edition of the ITFF school section and awards

 

1.30 pm: Conclusions by Piero Pacchiarotti (ITFF President) and Ezio Sina (APIDGE National President)

 

Sunday 11 October, 10:00 - Out of Competition Film Screening - Una classe, due facce directed by Fabrizio Colonesi

UNA CLASSE, DUE FACCE

 

Directed by Fabrizio Colonesi

 

Cast:  Enrico Arduini, Tommaso Ascani, Amin Barraj, Zakaria Barraj, Antonio Pio Bonaventura, Alice Buscaglia, Alessandro Cambrini, Marco Catania

 

Country: Italia

 

Year: 2018

 

Running time: 20 minutes

 

This short film deals with bullying in a realistic-fantastic way. A girl from a high school is often bullied by three of her classmates, often willingly at the entrance of the Institute, to punish her in class they lock her in the closet next to the chair. When she decides to go out, a surprise happens: the pupils are the same but very calm and same the three bullies. She soon realizes that she is in a reality parallel to her. After various vicissitudes, she manages to return to the original world.

 

Sunday 11 October, 10:00 - Out of Competition Film Screening - Indovina chi ti porto per cena directed by Amin Nour

 

INDOVINA CHI TI PORTO PER CENA

Directed by Amin Nour

Cast: Amin Nour, Jonis Bashir, Lavinia Cipriani, Ira Fronten, Yoon C.Joyce, Alla Krasovitzkaya, Cécile Kyenge, Elisabetta Pia Ferrari

Country: Italy

Year: 2018

Running Time: 11 minutes

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Sunday 11 October, 10:00 - Out of Competition Film Screening - Eclissi directed by Valerio Carta

ECLISSI

Directed by Valerio Carta

Cast: Sandra Milo, Iole Mazzone

Country: Italy

Year: 2019

Running Time: 12 minutes

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Sunday 11 October, 10:00 - Out of Competition Film Screening - Punto di rottura directed by Janet De Nardis

PUNTO DI ROTTURA

Directed by Janet De Nardis

Cast: Lidia Vitale, Francesco Stella, Sofia Bruscoli, Francesco Ferdinandi, Andrea De Rosa, Marco Passiglia, Maresa Merlino

Country: Italy

Year: 2019

Running Time: 14 minutes

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Sunday 11 October, 10:00 - Out of Competition Screening of Short Films made by Jilin Animation Institute (China)

Jilin Animation Institute (shortened as JAI) was founded in June, 2000, and admitted to be an independent undergraduate-level private college by Ministry of Education in 2008. At present, JAI has 15 branch schools and 34 majors, covering art, literature, engineering and management. 

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Saturday 10 October, 18:30 - Out of Competition Screening of Short Films made by Stockholms Filmskola (Sweden)

 

Stockholm Film School, founded in 1984, is a dedicated education that focuses entirely on practical filmmaking. We offer a longer basic education and several short courses within specific areas of use.

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Thursday 8 and Sunday 11 October - Out of competition screening of documentaries made by Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov School of Documentary Film and Theatre (Russia)

The Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov School of Documentary Film and Theatre is an auteur Russian film school founded in 2009 by film director and producer Marina Razbezhkina. The school focuses on how to consciously see the surrounding reality, rather than simply notice it.

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Friday 9 October, 21:00 - The Magic Flute at Piazza Vittorio directed by Gianfranco Cabiddu and Mario Tronco

THE MAGIC FLUTE AT PIAZZA VITTORIO

Directed by Gianfranco Cabiddu and Mario Tronco

Cast: Violetta Zironi, Petra Magoni, l'Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio,Fabrizio Bentivoglio

Country: Italy

Year: 2018

Running time: 83 minutes

 

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Saturday 10 October, 21:00 - Non smetterò mai di sognare directed by Roberto Giannessi

NON SMETTERÒ MAI DI SOGNARE

Directed by Roberto Giannessi

Cast: Michael Magnesi, Gioele Giustizia, Alesandra Branco, Silvio Branco, Emiliano Branco, Mario Massai, Gesumino Aglioti, Roberto Massarone, Angelo Lupi, Alfredo Magnesi, Rita Montelli, Andrea Baldini

Country: Italy

Anno: 2020

Durata: 42 minutes

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Wednesday 7 October, 21:00 - Fellini and alter ego by Graziano Marraffa

FELLINI AND ALTER EGO

Idea and editing by Graziano Marraffa

Cast: Federico Fellini, Anouk Aimée, Richard Basehart, Gabriella Giorgelli, Peter Gonzales, Franco Interlenghi, Freddie Jones, Giulietta Masina, Marcello Mastroianni, Sandra Milo, Annibale Ninchi, Magali Noel, Mario Pisu, Anna Prucnal, Sergio Rubini, Alberto Sordi, Bruno Zanin

Country: Italy

Year: 2020

Production and Distribution: Archivio Storico del Cinema Italiano, AIC, Libera Università del Cinema

Running time: 77 minuti

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Allumiere: 27 August, 22:00 - Film Screening Lo Sceicco Bianco (The White Sheik) directed by Federico Fellini, Restored Edition

LO SCEICCO BIANCO (THE WHITE SHEIK)

Directed by Federico Fellini

Cast:  Alberto Sordi, Brunella Bovo, Leopoldo Trieste, Giulietta Masina, Ernesto Almirante

Country: Italy

Year: 1952

Running time: 86 minutes

Restoration by Cineteca di Bologna in association with RTI-Mediaset and Infinity,  made at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory.  

Presented at 76th Venice International Film Festival - Venice Classics

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ITFF 2020 First Leg Allumiere - 27 August 2020

 

First leg of the International Tour Film Festival in Allumiere (RM) in the sign of the centenary of the birth of Federico Fellini and Alberto Sordi. Read the complete program!

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Thursday October 4, 19:00 - 25 Years in Slovak Animation

International Tour Film Festival, Fest Anča and Slovak Film Institute 

presents

 25 Years in Slovak Animation

Explore Slovak animation with a special selection 25 Years in Slovak Animation!

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Wednesday October 3: Festival Opening with Walter Sciortino

WALTER SCIORTINO

Pop/Latino/Dance/R&B Singer, musician and composer.

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ITFF FASHION AWARD 2018 to Massimiliano Varrese

MASSIMILIANO VARRESE

Massimiliano Varrese is a full artist: actor, singer, dancer, songwriter, writer and martial artist.

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ITFF presented at Turin Book Fair

 

The ITFF was presented at the Turin Book Fair at the MIUR stand: Watch the presentation by Andrea Giannasi.

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