Having projected films onto building facades during lockdown and organised a floating theatre on Eur Lake in the summer, Alice nella Città is now headed to Rome’s Nuvola di Fuksas Convention Centre on the occasion of the festival’s 18th edition, unspooling in the capital between 15 – 25 October alongside the 15^th Rome Film Fest. For the very first time, the Convention Centre designed by the famous Roman architect will open its auditorium doors to the world of cinema, hosting part of the rich Alice nella Città programme which is dedicated, as always, to the younger generations, and will this year offer up 12 films in competition, 5 out of competition, 6 special screenings, a new “Sintonie” section organised in collaboration with Venice 77 and the Series line-up, not to mention 3 restored films and 26 shorts.

“This year, we’ve looked to overturn festival boundaries by moving beyond the labelling of films and the dogged quest for world premieres”, declared section directors Gianluca Giannelli and Fabia Bettini while introducing Sintonie, the new line-up created in collaboration with Venice Film Festival director Alberto Barbera. “Our focal point is kids: those shown in the films which were presented in Venice and which have now been re-selected for Alice nella Città, and those who were unable to enjoy the Venice screenings but will now be able to catch up via Alice”. The 6 proposed titles are: The Predators [+lire aussi :
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interview : Pietro Castellitto
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interview : Uberto Pasolini
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interview : Ana Rocha de Sousa
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interview : Philippe Lacôte
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Battling it out in the Young Adult Competition, meanwhile, are 11+1 films (the additional title is set to be announced at the Rome Film Fest press conference next Monday), which will be assessed by a jury comprising 15 youngsters selected from across the country. Standing out among these titles are several works focusing on bodily changes as a result of sport, such as Slalom [+lire aussi :
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interview : Charlène Favier
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interview : Ronnie Sandahl
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interview : Fanny Liatard et Jérémy Tr…
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interview : Francesca Mazzoleni
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fiche film] by Samir Guesmi; there’s also the dark fairy tale Shadows [+lire aussi :
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interview : Carlo Lavagna
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interview : Henri Magalon
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fiche film]. Likewise worth a mention are Kajillionaire by Miranda July - “the craziest film presented in recent years” according to Giannelli - and Elizabeth Lo’s documentary Stray.

In terms of works screening Out of Competition, this year’s line-up is dedicated to the discovery and valorisation of young Italian cinema. The selected titles are: Movida [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Alessandro Padovani, Il mio corpo [+lire aussi :
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interview : Michele Pennetta
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fiche film] by Roberto Salinas, Climbing Iran [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Francesca Borghetti and Ordinary Justice [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Chiara Bellosi. Special Screenings include Luca della Grotta and Francesco Dafano’s cartoon Trash [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache; Forward [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], directed by Gilles de Maistre (sponsored by Unicef), and Alice Filippi’s debut work, the promising teen dramedy Sul più bello [+lire aussi :
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Finally, Aneil Karia’s British series Pure is set for a screening in the Series line-up, as is France’s Stalk by Simon Bouisson and Italy’s L’alligatore by Daniele Vicari and Emanuele Scaringi.