17/11/2015 - The best titles of the year are always selected at the Italian Film Festival, which has been held in the French commune since 1976

Arianna by Carlo Lavagna

Arianna [+see also:
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interview: Carlo Lavagna
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The awards were handed out during the final evening of the gathering directed by Oreste Sacchelli and Antoine Compagnone, which since 30 October had been presenting the best Italian films of the year in the French commune. The Critics’ Amilcar was bestowed upon The Wait [+see also:
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interview: Piero Messina
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interview: Alberto Caviglia
film profile] by Alberto Caviglia. The Public’s Amilcar went to Se Dio vuole [+see also:
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film profile] by Edoardo Falcone. The Young Jury also gave its award to Arianna, reserving a Special Mention for Edoardo Falcone’s movie. The Exhibitors’ Award (sponsored by Côté Cinéma) singled out Latin Lover [+see also:
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interview: Cristina Comencini
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Ever since it was founded in 1976, the Villerupt Italian Film Festival has regularly hosted from 35,000 to over 45,000 viewers. During the first two weeks of November every year, over 60 films are presented in their original version with subtitles to an ever-increasing audience – more than 42,000 attendees in 2014 – hailing from France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. Besides the competition and a Panorama section, this edition offered a Portrait d’ami of Riccardo Milani, and two retrospectives dedicated to the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and to World War I. The programme was rounded off by a Tribute to Elio Petri.

(Translated from Italian)