The project Cinema across the Great Festival after festival FESTIVAL IN ROME, event eagerly awaited by all fans of cinema, now in its 17th edition, which it was held by the 6 al 9 September within the arena of Film Nights at Piazza Vittorio, today returns the exhibition FROM VENICE TO ROME.

The initiative is part of the Roman summer program sponsored by Rome City Department of Cultural Growth and realized in collaboration with SIAE. Conceived and organized by ANEC Lazio, in collaboration with CityFest - Fondazione Cinema per Roma. The first was supported by the Locarno Film Festival, Swiss Embassy in Italy and the Swiss Institute in Rome (ISR), The event features a selection of securities representing the various sections of the Festival, all shown in their original version with subtitles in Italian. , the second event features a selection of titles from the various sections of the 74. Venice International Film Festival, all shown in their original version with subtitles in Italian.

We want to stress that since the Romans Locarno International Competition have had the opportunity to see Madame Hide, il film di Serge Bozon con Romain Duris e Isabelle Huppert (the latter awarded the Leopard for Best Performance Female), a modern reinterpretation of Stevenson's novel, a physics teacher dodges a constant victim of vicious insults of his students, struck by lightning, It is to have to deal with the darker side of himself. From the same section also winter Brothers, the onset Thuvane regista Islandese Maple Pálmason. A dark story and unstructured focuses on the adventures of two brothers and awarded with several awards including one for Best Male Interpretation, assigned to Elliott Crosset Hove and Europa Cinemas Label Award. Another title from the Competition, the Italian Asteroids, It operates before Germano Maccioni who will attend the projection, a history of training designed, produced and made entirely in Bologna with three young protagonists struggling with a series of robberies in churches and with the passage of an asteroid awfully close to Earth.

From the Filmmakers of the Present rather two difficult stories of women. Milla, French author Valérie Massadian , film won the Special Jury Prize Ciné + Filmmakers of the Present, pointing the spotlight on the story so naive as painful a young girl forced to survive the poverty and the sudden death of comrade. ME to Voss gate win, direct Swiss film by Cyril Schäublin, promising young Swiss cinema awarded with a Special Mention Debut, the story of a girl who works in a call center on the outskirts of Zurich and, to round, calls to elderly and lonely women pretending to be their grandson and asking to borrow money.

A FESTIVAL IN ROME was also presented Lola Pater, film which has had the honor of opening the festival Wednesday 6 September at 20:30 the presence of the President of the Locarno Film Festival Marco Solari. The film, directed by Nadir Moknèche, relies entirely on the interpretation of an international star Fanny Ardant caliber for the occasion plays the role of Farid, a French-Algerian who warned, adult, the need to change sex.

On the occasion of 70 years of the Locarno Festival, The Roman event intended to honor the Ticino Festival presenting two films that have been able to better embody the spirit of the festival in Locarno and, to date, continue to be particularly representative of its history: Germany Year Zero Roberto Rossellini and Das Fräulein by Andrea Staka (whose main character, Yellow Moon, will be present at the screening), both pronounced the best film respectively 1948 and 2006. The Swiss Embassy, in collaboration with the Locarno Festival, It has also created the exhibition panels, located within the picturesque setting of Piazza Vittorio, that retrace the most significant stages of the history of the festival.

But now it begins again within the project through the Great Cinema Festival returns the exhibition FROM VENICE TO ROME, final round and the most anticipated among those scheduled during the summer 2017, It started in June with "The ways of Cinema - From Cannes to Rome and the Region" and continued in September with "The great Festival - Locarno in Rome".

The event is eagerly awaited by film lovers, now in its XXIII edition, the initiative promoted by Rome City Department of Cultural Growth and realized in collaboration with SIAE. Conceived and organized by ANEC Lazio, in collaboration with CityFest - Fondazione Cinema per Roma, The event features a selection of titles from the various sections of the 74. Venice International Film Festival, all shown in their original version with subtitles in Italian.

Wide and varied supply of films in the program this year 2017 that, as every year, Among its objectives is to make it accessible to everyone some films of high artistic value, opening a window preview in the Capital on the latest trends of Italian and international cinema.

over 40 titles, be they 7 days of programming in 11 salt involved: composing the bill again this year a wide selection of films that for a week will cross the entire city of Rome, in a "traveling", projected on the screens of the most important theaters of the capital, involving numerous neighborhoods, from Prati (Adriano, Eden, Julius Caesar) Trastevere (Nuovo Sacher, Intrastevere), from Pinciano (Barberini, Savoy, Mignon) the historic center (Farnese, Quattro Fontane), through Testaccio (Greenwich). As every year, The programming of the festival will be enriched by meetings with directors and actors of the films.

For all updates during the exhibition, you can see the Facebook event page: Locarno & Venice to Rome.