It will be the national premiere of the film The Other Face of Hope (The Other Side of Hope) to inaugurate the edition 2017 the Lucca Film Festival and European Film Sunday 2 April to Astra cinema in Lucca (ore 20,30). To introduce the film will be the protagonist of the film Sherwan Haji. The film Silver Bear for Best Director at the latest Berlinale, and in theaters of Italy 6 April for Cinema by Valerio De Paolis, It will be one of the special events of the "Out of Competition" section that will present a series of films ever screened in Italy who do not participate in the competition.

The film, presented at the Berlin Festival and in theaters of Italy 6 April for Cinema Distribution Valerio De Paolis, the plight of refugees, It will be one of the special events of the "Out of Competition" section that will present a series of films ever screened in Italy who do not participate in the competition. Among others, to report, Sore Nicole Garcia stones with Marion Cotillard and Louis Garrel (04/04) and the European premiere of When a father Mark Willaims with Gerard Butler and Willem Defoe (6/04), the latter actor among the guests of the festival. Defoe fact will be in Lucca for presentar to present the film, public meeting on Friday 7 April at the Teatro del Giglio (ore 10.30) and to receive the award Saturday careers 8 April to Astra Cinema.

In addition to the aforementioned guests edition 2017, to be held between Lucca and Viareggio, It presents a stellar red carpet with Oliver Stone, Olivier Assayas, Valeria Golino, Sergio Castellitto, Julien Temple, Cristi Puiu, Bruno Monsaingeon and Giada Colagrande. Each of the award-winning international film stars will be dedicated free gifts with projections, awards and public meetings. Scheduled, Furthermore, the second edition of the international feature film competition, with 14 competing films from around the world in the first Italian, who will join the premieres out of competition and the usual appointment with the International Short Film Competition.

Julian Temple, 3 e 4 April – Among the stars who will present Temple in Lucca Monday 3 April where, at the conference room "Vincent of Massa Carrara", at 11.30, meet the audience in a conversation on the years of punk and its relationship with art and cinema in the 70s and 80s. Followed by a private visit to the exhibition PunkDada Situation (in the adjacent spaces of Fondazione Ragghianti), the exhibition which opens the 3 April curated by Alessandro Romanini celebrating precisely the 40 years of "Punk". The same evening Temple will be awarded at the Central Cinema (ore 21) and on that occasion it will be screened in Italian premiere of "The Origin of the Species – Keith Richards ", cinematographic work of the Temple 2016.

Oliver Stone 6, 7 e 8 April – Director, screenwriter, producer and actor – three times awarded the Oscars - Oliver Stone will go on to Lucca to receive a lifetime achievement award and meet the public. Stone, the director who told a reporter with his films a portrait faceted, critic and tip America, It will be in Lucca 6 April for a press conference, the will of 7 the Astra cinema to meet the public during its gala event and introduce the screening of the film Alexander (film 2004, chosen by him) epic by star cast in which Stone is engaged with the story of King Alessandro Magno. The transition of Stone in Lucca will conclude with a conversation with the audience with Silvia Bizio at the Teatro del Giglio April 8 hours 10. The program also includes a retrospective that will trace the entire career of the filmmaker.

In this context fits Effect Cinema Night 2017, an actual section within the international film event, that will turn the entire city into a giant film set, enriched by a series of events coated on seven days festival-goers until the grand finale on Saturday 8 April with the main event titled "Oliver Stone's War Zone" in the Piazza del Giglio (from 19, with two concerts at 23,30 and at 00,30). The event will affect five thematic areas and 42 shops in the center where there are already teams to the work of set designers and performers.

Valeria Golino, 4 April – Artist from the dazzling international career, Valeria Golino has worked not only with great Italian directors like Gabriele Salvatores, Ferzan Ozpetek, Francesca Archibugi, Emanuele Crialese and Paolo Virzì, but with American directors like Sean Penn in Lone Wolf and Quentin Tarantino in Four Rooms. The Golino will participate in a conversation about his multiple roles as an actress, the director and producer 4 April at the conference room "Vincent of Massa Carrara" (ore 10.30) a film class. The actress, director and producer, It will also be awarded at the Cinema Astra (ore 20.30) and to follow the screening of the film for your sake Giuseppe Gaudino.

Sergio Castellitto, 8 April – The actor and director Sergio Castellitto will be protagonist of the meeting "Listening Piano: cinema and therapy "by Mario Sesti, 8 April at 18, at the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca, organized by Mario Tobino Foundation. The meeting will be dedicated "to the relationship between cinema, Television mental health ". After meeting it will screen the short film "The Golden Dream" by Simone Rabassini with Deborah Pioli script, work that focuses on the therapeutic function of music, in particular that of Giacomo Puccini.

Giada Colagrande 7 e 8 April – The actress and the director will Colagrande 7 April, Central to the film, il suo film “Bob Wilson’s life and death of Marina Abramovic” del 2012 is Saturday 8 April, al cinema Astra, actress and director will meet the public (at 17) and introduce, along with Defoe, the screening of his film Father of 2016. The program includes a complete retrospective of his films will be screened throughout the festival.

Olivier Assayas, 9 April – Another star of the festival, which are grown homage with a retrospective of his films sarà Oliver Assays in Lucca 9 April to receive the award for his career and for a film class at Central Cinema (ore 21) before the screening of his latest film Personal Shopper will happen immediately after the meeting.

The masters of cinema: Cristi Puiu dal 6 April and from Bruno Monsaingeon 4 April – Puiu, master of Romanian cinema, He will be president of the jury and will be a retrospective of his films. Will hold a conversation at the Central Cinema 6 April at 21 and to follow will screen his latest film "Sieranevada", family drama set just after the tragic events of Charlie Hebdo, films presented at Cannes 2016. French director Bruno Monsaingeon, among the greatest musical documentary filmmakers in the world, It will be in Lucca for a project in collaboration with the Institute where Luigi Boccherini 4 April will conduct a seminar on the relationship between image and music. Author of films on the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, including Glenn Gould, Sviatoslav Richter e David Oistrakh, He will receive the lifetime achievement award (Central to the film, 5 April). It will also be honored with a tribute film during the festival.

In the "out of competition" even the movies, The Little Hours di Jeff Baena (Canada, Usa, 2017), a North American production filmed in Garfagnana with the support of Il Ciocco and executive produced Dublab Ltd. Alessandro Bertolucci. In the film, John C. Reilly, actor in the film Tale of Tales of Matteo Garrone (20,30, cinema Astra, 5 April). Among the titles of note is the first Italian, Gianni, a film Alberto times a portrait of the architect and artist Gianni Pettena (4 April, Central Cinema). Furthermore, planning section, Also the film Danish Sculptors in Pietrasanta Jacob Jorgensen (4 April, 22,30, Central Cinema).

Special event on cinema and music 2 April in Piazza del Giglio – As always, do not miss the music with a concert with live sound projection of Yasujiro Ozu's masterpiece of floating herbs History (1934), in collaboration with the Istituto Luigi Boccherini of Lucca and the Maxxi Museum in Rome. The execution of the soundtrack, co-written by Maestro Fulvio Pietramala and Master GianPaolo Mazzoli, It provides an organic chamber and was carried out taking into account the pentatonic scales of Japanese tradition, getting suggestions and oriental sounds through the use of original instruments. The projection will be realized on the facade of the theater of Giglio and to perform the instrumental ensemble Institute, directed by Maestro Mazzoli.

the exhibitions (Viareggio and Lucca) – Two exhibitions this year for the Lucca Film Festival and European Film, both curated by Alessandro Romanini. The first, closely linked to the event, It is titled PunkDadaSituation, It opens on 3 April at the Fondazione Ragghianti of Lucca and binds together three anniversaries that have changed the history of the last century: the 1917 with the birth of the Dada movement, the 1977 with that of the Punk and 1957 with the formation of the Situationist International. The second, that opens the 18 March to the GAMC Viareggio, inaugurates the cooperation with the Experimental Center of Cinematography in Rome and the Istituto Luce and pays homage to Federico Fellini giving birth, through the executive boards of the scenes created by students, his movie ever made: The Mastorna Travel.

The prices – The lifetime achievement awards that will be presented to directors and actors were made by Italian designer Emiliana Martinelli president of Martinelli Luce, International company with creations present in the permanent collections of major museums, like the famous bat lamp at the MOMA in New York.