Rome Film Festival 2024 – The official program is here

The official program of the nineteenth edition of was presented today at the Teatro Olimpico in Rome Rome Film Festival (from 16 to 27 October). Present at the conference: the new president of the Cinema per Roma Foundation, Salvatore Nastasiwho succeeded Gian Luca Farinelli, and the artistic director Paola Malanga. They will be 29 participating countries in the 2024 edition for a total of over 100 moviesstarting with the big pre-opening screening of Megalopolisawaited movie Francis Ford Coppola with a stellar cast in which he also appears Adam Driver.

Also this year, two Lifetime Achievement Awards will be given, one in Viggo Mortensen and the one of Johnny Deppwhere their second works as directors will also be shown, respectively The Dead Can’t Hurt And Modi.

So far, not all titles have been announced, the parallel and autonomous sections of the Festival are not included, Alice in the Citydedicated to cinema for young people and some surprises to be revealed in the coming weeks.

Here are the sections of films and all the works, so far, presented for the Rome Film Festival:

Progressive Cinema Competition – Visions for the world of tomorrow

• 100 Liters of Gold by Teemu Nikki
• Sara Petraglia’s tree
• L’art d’etre heraux by Stefan Liberski
• Berlinguer Berlinguer by Andrea Segre
• Bring Them Down by Christopher Andrew
• Le Choix by Gilles Bourdos
• Es Geht Um Luis by Lucia Chiarla
• Greedy People by Potsy Ponciroli
• The Island of Idealists by Elisabetta Sgarbi
• Jazzy by Morissa Malt
• Bound to Huo Xin’s Heaven
• Reading Lolita in Tehran by
• La Nuit Se Train by Michiel Blanchart
• Querido Tropico by Ana Endara
• Spirit World by Eric Khoo
• Paradise for sale by Luca Barbareschi
• Polvo Seran by Carlos Marques-Marce
• Tony Kaye’s Trainer

Freestyle section

• Arsa di MASBEDO
• Pierce by Nelicia Low
• Hello son of Edgardo Pistone
• Ghostlight by Kelly O’Sullivan, Alex Thompson
• Grand Theft Hamlet by Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane
• Marco Polo by Elisa Fuksas
• McVeight by Mike Ott
• Christmas without Gianfranco Firriolo’s time
• Deep Night by Giuseppe Miale Di Mauro
• On Falling by Laura Carreira
• Sunshine by Nina Conti
• Under the Blue Sun by Daniel Man

Large Public Section

• The house of glimpses of Luca Zingaretti
• Edward Berger Conclave
• Eternal visionary of Michele Placido
• Until the end of Gabriele Muccino
• Hey Joe by Claudio Giovannesi
• Books by Mélanie Laurent
• Longlegs by Osgood Perkins
• Mauro Mancini’s hands are empty
• La pie voluese by Robert Guédiguian
• The boy in the pink pants by Margherita Ferri (with Alice from the city)
• The Return of Uberto Pasolini
• Saturday Night by Jason Reitman
• A Night’s Tale by Paolo Costella
• Superheroes by Stefano Chiantini
• The children’s train by Cristina Comencini
• US Palmese by Antonio Manetti, Marco Manetti
• La Vallée Des Fous by Xavier Beauvois
• We Live in Time by John Crowley

Art Section (Doc)

• Waiting for King Lear by Alessandro Preziosi
• The Tirana Conspiracy by Manfredi Lucibello
• Duse, The Greatest by Sonia Bergamasco
• Francesco Califano, Francesca Romana Massaro is not stopping you, Francesco Antonio Mondi
• Giulia my love! Giorgio di Maria Mauti
• I’m Lee Shulman’s Martin Parr
• Italo Calvino in the cities of Davide Ferrario
• Leonardo Da Vinci by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon
• Musicians with pianola by Matteo Malatesta
• Pellizza Painter from Volpedo by Francesco Fei
• Stones and Bricks by Saeid Shahparnia
• The king of Naples. History and legend of Mario Merola by Massimo Ferrari
• Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The Street Band by Thom Zimny
• They said about me and Isabella Mari

Series Section

• The brilliant friend. Story of the missing child (ep. 1-2) by Laura Bispuri
• Avetrana – This is not Hollywood (ep. 1-4) by Pippo Mezzapesa
• Bellas Artes (ep. 1-6) by Mariano Cohn, Martín Bustos
• The Count of Monte Cristo (e. 1-2) by Bille August
• La Maquina (ep. 1-2) by Gabriel Ripstein
• Miss Fallaci (ep. 1-2) by Luca Ribuoli, Giacomo Martelli, Alessandra Gonnella
• Life of Charles 3 (ep. 1-4) by Carlo Verdone, Valerio Vestoso

Best of 2024 section

• Anora by Sean Baker
• Architect by Viktor Kossakovsky
• Emilia Pérez by Jacques Audiard
• En Fanfare by Emmanuel Courcol
• Ernest Cole: Lost and Found by Raoul Peck
• Les Femmes Au Balcon by Noémie Merlant
• Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis (with Alice of the City)
• Ugly (Tudor Giurgiu, Cristian Pascariu, Tudor D Popescu)
• On Becoming a Guinea Fowl by Runano Nyoni
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig by Mohammad Rasoulof
• Small Things Like These by Tim Mielants
• The Substance by Coralie Fargeat

Source: Press Release