The Artistic Director Antonio Monda, in agreement with the President of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, Piera Detassis, He has announced several advances related to the twelfth edition of the Rome Film Festival, to be held from 26 October to 5 November 2017 Auditorium Parco della Musica, involving, like last year, numerous other places and cultural realities of the Capital. As every year, ample space will be dedicated to Close Encounters with filmmakers, actors and great personalities of the world of culture this year including the following.

David Lynch | Lifetime Achievement Award Forty years after the release of his first feature film, Eraserhead, the Festa del Cinema 2017 celebrates the genius David Lynch giving it the AFI Life Achievement Award. With viewers Auditorium, Lynch also discuss the three films that have most influenced his career, among which 8½ Federico Fellini.

Ian McKellen Extraordinary Shakespearean actor, winner of a Golden Globe and two-time Tony Award, nominated for two Academy Awards, Ian McKellen will star in a Tight Meeting with the public at the Film Festival. Ian McKellen will share with the audience his deep love for the cinema, in particular for the comic genius of Jacques Tati.

Xavier Dolan Jury at the Cannes Film Festival Award 2014 per Mommy e Grand Prix 2016 per It is only the end of the world, only twenty-eight years old Xavier Dolan is already considered one of the most original and charismatic new generation of filmmakers. The young Canadian author will be on the Auditorium stage to talk about his career as an artist in the round, director and screenwriter of six feature films and two video clips of success (including "Hello" by Adele), popular film and television performer.

Chuck Palahniuk cult Writer, surreal, unconventional and controversial, Chuck Palahniuk has become known by the international audience with his first novel, “Fight Club”. The Point Blank Meeting with Palahniuk will be titled "American Gothic": the writer will speak to the public of horror films that have most impressed and disturbed.

Vanessa Redgrave With a career of more than fifty years behind, Vanessa and is considered one of the greatest living interpreters, after praying for some great artists such as Michelangelo Antonioni (Blow-Up He gave her international fame), Fred Zinnemann (his Giulia It earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress), Sidney Lumet, James Ivory, Brian de Palma, among others.

Furthermore, of the approximately 35 feature films in the Official Selection was announced the latest work by Steven Soderbergh that with Logan Lucky and after the foray into television series through the gothic atmospheres and disturbing the The Knick, made this ensemble film that evokes circumstances and themes of the trilogy of "Ocean". In his new film, the Academy Award-winning director Traffic It tells the steps of a complex and risky robbery that takes place during one of the most known and adrenaline Nascar races. The cast also stars Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Riley Keough, Daniel Craig, Seth MacFarlane, Katie Holmes, Hilary Swank, Katherine Waterston e Sebastian Stan.

E’ expected SPECIAL EVENT NYsferatu Andrea Mastrovito | With the Orchestra "Luigi Boccherini" of Lucca a special event between cinema and music: Italian artist, who lives and works in New York, He redesigned by hand one of the masterpieces of silent film, Nosferatu, realized in 1922 as Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. The end result - which required a huge production effort, three years of work and about thirty tables - is an animated film set in a dark and mysterious New York of today, marked by racial tensions against immigrants.

RETROSPECTIVE "The Italian school" is the title of the retrospective, edited by Mario Sesti, to be held during the twelfth edition of the Rome Film Fest. Produced in cooperation with Istituto Luce Cinecittà and Experimental Center of Cinematography, "The Italian School" is designed to highlight, investigate and deepen the fundamental work, but often less well known, some great professionals - from cinematographers to editors, by set designers to costume designers - who have contributed to the history of our cinema, without forgetting the contribution that they have given to large international authors films.

RESTAURI Three large restored works of Italian cinema will be scheduled at the next Film Festival: Dillinger is dead Marco Ferreri, Poverty and Nobility Mario Mattioli (both in collaboration with the Experimental Center of Cinematography) e Sacco and Vanzetti Giuliano Montaldo (with Cinecittà Luce Institute).

INSTALLATION Contemporary art becomes the star at the Film Festival with an installation that comes from the creativity and interaction of six artists, six writers and six directors. The works of Piero Pizzi Cannella, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Roberto Pietrosanti, Marina Sagona, Giuseppe Salvatori and Marco Tirelli dialogue with the pen of Edoardo Albinati, Claudio Damiani, Jhumpa Lahiri, Marco Lodoli, Aurelio Picca and Elena Stancanelli. The narrative that emerges becomes image through six short films by young filmmakers will be screened in the Auditorium. The work is conceived by Simona Marchini for Palatine Cultural Association with the friendly advice of the National Film Center.

THE ROLE OF CRITICISM After the success of last year, the Film Festival returns to speak of the role of international criticism with some big names in journalism as A. Ó. Scott (“The New York Times”) e Justin Chang (“Los Angeles Times”). The debate will also help the film historian Annette Insdorf.

THE FILMS OF OUR LIVES: THE MUSICAL As every year, Artistic Director and the members of the Selection Committee will share with the audience a brief review of the film that marked their passion for the seventh art. After the western, the choice will be made, for this twelfth edition, all'interno the musical. Each film will be accompanied by a meeting with authors, actors and guests; Furthermore, before each screening of the upcoming Festival of Cinema, viewers will watch short pills of the most famous and evocative musical.