Alba Rohrwacher in a still from ‘Three Goodbyes’ by Isabel Coixet, courtesy of Cinema Made in Italy
From Cinecittà to the BFI Southbank, Italian cinema is making an extraordinary return, with several titles directed by Italian filmmakers slated for UK distribution later this spring. And this time around, it seems to be all about freedom…
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Come early March, from the 4th through the 8th to be exact, the BFI Southbank becomes home to some of the Italian cinematic gems everyone should be craving to discover.
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Laetitia Ky in a still from Erige Sehiri’s ‘Promised Sky’
You have to love Spike Lee for crashing Thierry Frémaux’s insiders party at the line-up press conference… via social media of course!
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Valeria Golino on the set of ‘The Art of Joy’ courtesy of Sky
The upcoming Sky original series, co-directed by Valeria Golino and Nicolangelo Gelormini, will have its UK premiere at the Institut Français’ Ciné Lumière, ahead of its availability on Sky TV.
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Always a star-studded event, the festival will also revisit ‘Diario di Guttuso’ a television work from 1982 featuring the beloved Italian artist that already showed the highly personal style of Oscar winning filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore.
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A still from Ginevra Elkann’s ‘I Told You So’ which will screen at this year’s Cinema Made in Italy
Organized by Cinecittà, the French Institute in London and The Italian Cultural Institute, this audience favorite annual film festival highlights the best Italian cinema from the past year.
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Actress Behnaz Jafari with filmmaker Jafar Panahi in a still from '3 Faces'
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Actually, this edition of the Festival de Cannes turned out to be a missed opportunity, for media and juries alike to truly take charge of the #TimesUp movement and make of it a lasting course instead of a passing trend. Yes, there were stairs filled with women in pretty dresses, there were hotlines that we could call if we felt threatened or harassed, but ultimately the big prizes went to the big boys. As they have for every edition of the festival, except once, in 1993 when Jane Campion made history as the first and only woman to win the Palme d’Or.
Yet personally, I loved Cannes more than ever this year. I had a soft place to fall, in the form of a wonderful group of friends I spent my free time with, eating dinners we cooked together and drinking our morning coffee back at our cozy apartment with one breathtaking view. I mean, just look at the Disney fireworks for 'SOLO: A Star Wars Story' display from our terrace!
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Valeria Golino and Alba Rohrwacher in Laura Bispuri's 'Daughter of Mine'
© Vivo film / Colorado Film / Match Factory Productions / Bord Cadre Films
From the fabulous women of 'Daughter of Mine' to a wondrous man, my early Sunday morning at Berlinale was spent in the company of Elia Suleiman, the Palestinian filmmaker extraordinaire and Artistic Advisor of the Doha Film Institute.
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