Rome Film Festival (10/15/09-10/23/09)

The International Rome Film Festival - IV Edition
from October 15 to October 23, 2009

There are fourteen films in competition in the Official Selection section, of which three are Italian - Alza la Testa by Alessandro Angelini, L'Uomo che verrà by Giorgio Diritti, and Viola di mare by Donatella Maiorca.

The section Out of Competition/Anteprima includes Italian films Oggi Sposi by Luca Lucini and Christine by Stefania Sandrelli, a movie about writer Cristina da Pizzano.

Homage to Rome by Franco Zeffirelli is included in Special Events section.

The Festival will remember the career of Luciano Salce through the documentary, L'uomo dalla Bocca Storta, directed by Emanuele Salce and Andrea Pergolari, and pay homage to Luciano Emmer with a screening of Le Ragazze di Piazza di Spagna.

Alice nella Città, the children's section of the Festival, features twelve films in competition, including Nat e Il Segreto di Elenora which signals the return to animation of Lanterna Magica (La Freccia Azzurra, La Gabbianella e il Gatto) and Mare piccolo which hails the return of Alessandro di Robilant behind the camera.

After eighty years of his birth and twenty years since his death, the Festival will remember Sergio Leone with an exhibition entitled Sergio Leone, uno sguardo inedito.

The Festival is planning a retrospective on the great Italian director Luigi Zampa, put on thanks to the close collaboration established with the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - National Film Archive. The occasion will be marked by the premiere screening of the restored version of La Romana (Woman of Rome), Zampa's 1954 film starring Gina Lollobrigida that he wrote together with Alberto Moravia, Ennio Flaiano and Giorgio Bassani. The retrospective line-up includes films that ratified the partnership between the Roman director and Alberto Sordi, such as The Traffic Policeman (1961) and Be Sick... It's Free (1968), as well as those that resulted from Zampa's collaboration with Vitaliano Brancati like Difficult Years (1948) and The Art of Getting Along (1954).

Then there will be, in a worldwide premiere, the film-dossier dedicated to the life of artist Antonio Ligabue and an important exhibition at the Archeological Museum Auditorium Parco della Musica with approximately eighty pieces of work curated from noted museums and private collections titled, Luci del Cinema su Antonio Ligabue.