“Occhiali neri” (Dark Glasses) is the latest feature from Italian artist Dario Argento, a pioneer of giallo (lit. yellow) an Italian narrative and cinematographic genre blending sexuality, murder and fantasy. Argento hadn’t made a film since 2012 and the box-office failure of “Dracula 3D”. Salvatore Argento, pioneer of “giallo” Son of the famous Italian producer …
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ITALY / The 62nd Festival dei Popoli offers a retrospective on the work of French film-makers Nicolas Klotz and Elisabeth Perceval
Europe’s oldest documentary event, the Festival dei Popoli, will run in Florence from November 20th to 28th. This year, in addition to the two competitions – international (18 documentaries not yet shown in Italy) and Italian (7 premiers) – the festival is hosting the first Italian retrospective of the films of French directors Nicolas Klotz …
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ITALY / Registration is open for the 2022 Integrazione Film Festival
The 16th Integrazione Film Festival is now open for registration. It aims to be “an international competition for short drama and documentary films which show how people from different cultural backgrounds have successfully integrated.” This year’s festival was online but next year it will take place face-to-face in Bergamo and Sarnico, from May 10th to …
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ITALY / “Mediterráneo : The Law of the Sea” winner of the 16th Rome Film Fest
Marcel Barrena’s “Mediterráneo – The Law of the Sea” won the “FS Audience Award” at the International Rome Film Fest, with the public using the festival’s official app or web-site to vote. The film shows how two Barcelona life-guards created the NGO “Open Arms”. “September 2015. The whole world was shocked by the photograph of …
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FRANCE / The Spanish version of France 24 now broadcast non-stop
The Spanish version of France 24 has been on air continuously since September 24th, with transmission rising from 12 hours a day to 24 – an opportunity for the French international news channel to present “a new morning show and even more news, magazines, reports and debates.” According to a press release the goal is …
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ITALY / The MIA presents two new sections for scripted and unscripted projects
For international producers, distributors, commissioning editors, directors of programming and production, private and public fund-raisers, Rome’s international audiovisual market – MIA – is “the leading Italian market, bringing together every section of the audiovisual industry.” More than 2,000 professionals from 58 countries take part every year. “A hub where offers are made for transnational film …
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ITALY / The new Pixar “Luca” off the Italian Riviera
The new animated film from Pixar, “Luca” takes us to the heart of 1950’s Italy, off the Italian Riviera. In the depths of the turquoise waters of the Mediterranean, Luca and Alberto, two young adolescent merpeople, living in the sea, stung by curiosity, venture onto dry land and take human form to discover the world …
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