Rome is preparing for its Film Festival, which, from October 14 to 24, will honor directors Quentin Tarantino and Tim Burton and will have four Latin bets in the official selection, as well as a meeting with Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón, announced today the festival organizers.
In addition to Cuarón, also Tarantino and Burton, who will be awarded the Career Award, will be the protagonists of the meetings with the public, in which the Italian directors Marco Bellocchio and Luca Guadagnino, and the American actress Jessica Chastain, will also participate. among others.
The films in competition come from dozens of countries, and four of them come from Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Spain, present with two films.
Spanish-Greek production will compete in the Film Festival "Mediterranean", by Marcel Barrena, with Eduard Fernández, Anna Castillo and Dani Rovira; "My girlfriend is the revolution"by the Mexican Marcelino Islas Hernández; the dominican "A movie about couples", by Natalia Cabral and Oriol Estrada, and the Spanish-Belgian film "Liberty"by Clara Roquet.
Among the tapes in competition, the highlights "C’mon C’mon", starring Joaquin Phoenix, and "Passing", with Tessa Thompson and André Holland.
The culmination of the festival, out of competition, will be the premiere of "Eternals", the new Marvel movie, directed by Oscar winner Chloé Zhao and starring Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden and Gemma Chan, among others.
Said premiere is "an international coup that testifies to the reputation" that the Film Festival has won during its 15 previous editions, said the festival’s director, Antonio Monda, today.
In addition to the official selection and meetings with the public, there will be a section dedicated to productions about famous people, such as documentaries about the Italian singer Caterina Caselli "One vita, cento vite" or about former US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy "JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass".
Small premieres will also be screened, mostly Italian, as well as old films in the section "Retrospectives" and in "Movies of our lives", and there will be a space for debate on figures such as Tim Burton or Agnès Varda and films such as "La dolce vita".
Before the inauguration of the Film Festival with "The Eyes of Tammy Faye", starring Jessica Chastain, will be able to see five films starting next Monday at the festival’s pre-opening.
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