The exhibition will run until 14 in April as part of CityFest, The program of cultural events of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma led by Laura Delli Colli, General Director Francesca Via, produced by MAXXI - National Museum of XXI Century Arts, chaired by Giovanna Melandri, and Alice in direct city Fabia Bettini and Gianluca Giannelli.
The program of the sixth edition is curated by Mario Sesti. Cinema at the MAXXI has consolidated over the years as one of the most important and anticipated events of the cultural landscape of the Capital, registering an extraordinary interest from the public: concocted an event around the research and experimentation, that combine the features of the festival, the festival and the film club, with numerous activities ranging from film lining museum exhibitions to exclusive previews of movies, documentaries, TV series, meetings with authors and actors to special events, at a cost of five euro entry.
The sixth edition of Cinema at the MAXXI opens with a significant innovation, previewing the first episode of The Passage, new FOX television series license plate. Will come back, for the second consecutive year, Extra Doc Festival, a real competition of Italian published and unpublished documentaries that will complement an educational path with "ExtraSchool.doc". They enrich the program sections Extra Special, Extra meetings and Alice Family. Three specific sections will also be devoted to the current exhibitions at the Museum: “Low Form”, on the relationship between art and artificial intelligence, "La Strada", as a place of creativity, challenges and civil wars, and "Cinema and Photography", in relation to staff dedicated to Paolo Pellegrin.
EXTRA DOC FESTIVAL
A competition of ten Italian documentaries selected from world premieres and works that have been highlighted in major festivals. I am Thomas Amedeo Fago, the winning film 2018 in the unpublished section he was featured last year in several screenings throughout the Capital, between cinema, Libraries and schools
After the success of the first edition, Extra returns Doc Festival, The competition map and intercepts the best expressions of the reality cinema. Five appointments for ten Italian documentaries in competition: entries will be judged by a jury chaired by Giovanna Melandri, President of the MAXXI Foundation, accompanied by the director and screenwriter Calopresti, by Valerio Cappelli reporter, actress Cristina Donadio, from producer Nicola Giuliano and author Margaret Mazzantini. Two prizes will be awarded: the "Best Italian documentary of the year" and the best unpublished, “Extra Doc CityFest”. At the end of each screening, the authors will talk with the curator of Extra Doc Festival, Mario Sesti.
An audience of around forty members - the reading club of the Flaminia Library and representatives of other libraries, high school students selected to Alice in the city and militant young critics - will instead have the task of choosing the documentaries that will later be distributed and promoted in Rome's libraries.
Wednesday 30 January
– ore 19 world premiere
ALDO MORO THE LONG GOODBYE
Luca Rea in collaboration with Maria Pia Ammirati, Andrea Di Consoli, Italy, 2019, 60’
– ore 21 WORDS OF TRAIN
Silvio Soldini, Italy, 2018, 58’
Wednesday 6 February
– ore 19 THE BULL OF LOB
Luigi Barletta, Italy, 2018, 55’
– ore 21 world premiere
THE COLOR OF FATIGUE
Andrea Gropplero of Troppenburg, Italy, 2018, 60’
Wednesday 13 February
– ore 19 world premiere
THE COLORS OF SELLER
Daniele Costantini, Italy, 2019, 62’
– ore 21 IN THIS WORLD
Anna Tauber, Italy, 2018, 100’
Wednesday 20 March
– ore 19 world premiere
DREAMS, SEX AND BROKEN HEARTS
di Gianfranco urged, Italy, 2018, 55’
– ore 21 sELFIE
Augustine Ferrente, Italy, France, 2019, 76’
Wednesday 27 March
– ore 19 world premiere
TIME TO GIVE UP
Gavril Saved, Italy, 2018, 42’
– ore 21 THE ROAD Samouni
Stefano Savona, Italy, France, 2018, 128’
Sunday 14 April
– ore 17.30 Award EXTRA DOC FESTIVAL
EDUCATIONAL PROJECT: EXTRASCHOOL.DOC
"ExtraSchool.doc" - a project by the Fondazione Cinema per Roma in collaboration with Alice in the city thanks to the support of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture - will promote the documentary among the younger generations, proposing to high school students a series of initiatives to get closer to reality cinema. Children can, on the one hand, be members of the relevant audience of Extra Doc Festival - thus also participate in person at the screenings, in discussions and the awards competition of documentaries organized as part of Cinema at the MAXXI - the other to study issues of the proposed documentary: the works of Doc Festival Extra will indeed be made available on the platform "Class Choices", provided by Alice in the City, accompanied by fact sheets. The works will eventually be proposed again to a wider audience of boys within a minirassegna which will take place in the coming months between schools and proximity salt.
One of the most important goals of "ExtraSchool.doc" is to make available to everyone, and in particular of student generations, literacy opportunities than the language of images and sounds (cinema, audiovisual, internet culture) to whom, the current state, there are no specific teaching spaces.
TV SERIES IN COLLABORATION WITH FOX NETWORKS GROUP
Cinema at the MAXXI opens to the television series, a preview of two of the most anticipated series of the season
The most significant new feature of Cinema at the MAXXI 2019: in collaboration with Fox Networks Group, The event will open officially with the first episode of The Passage, the new series produced by Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Alien: Covenant, The Martian), firmata da Elizabeth Heldens (Friday Night Lights, Mercy) and comes from the homonymous fantasy-horror trilogy by Justin Cronin will be premiered Vision Monday 28 January on Fox (112, Sky) at 21. In February, national preview, It will be the turn of the first episode of the ninth season of The Walking Dead, the most beloved zombie series, from Monday 11 February at 21 in onda su Fox.
Saturday 26 January - Free entry
– ore 21 THE PASSAGE
di Liz Heldens, United States, 2018, 45’, St. 1 Ep. 1
Saturday 9 February - Free entry
– ore 21 THE WALKING DEAD
Robert Kirkman e Frank Darabont, United States, 2019, St. 9 Ep. 1
LOW FORM | LA STRADA | CINEMA AND PHOTOGRAPHY
Three sections, three film proposals that accompany the exhibitions held at the MAXXI
Three movies combined in the exhibition "Form Low. Imaginary and visions in the era of artificial intelligence ", will run until 24 February, a journey into technology and surreal artists of today, between dreams generated by computer, creative algorithms and avatars who question the meaning of existence. The screening of The Golem - How was the world He will have a musical accompaniment by direct live by Antonio Coppola, specialist in the creation, realization and improvisation of soundtracks for silent cinema.
Sunday 3 February
– ore 18 MOON
Duncan Jones, Great Britain, United States, 2009, 97’
Sunday 10 February
– ore 17 THE GOLEM - HOW WAS THE WORLD (The Golem - As he came into the world)
in Paul Wegener, Germany, 1920, 85’
With live musical accompaniment directed by Antonio Coppola
Sunday 17 February
– ore 18 DISTRICT 9
di Neill Blomkamp, South Africa, United States, New Zeland, Canada, 2009, 112’
LA STRADA
The section is accompanied by the exhibition "The Road. Where you create the world ", MAXXI until 28 April. In the story of the works and the five films scheduled emerges a multicultural portrait, polyglot, colored, scary and challenging roads around the world, real big laboratory where you invent the contemporary era. On the occasion of the screening of Dragonfly Eyes, the public will have the chance to meet the director and artist Xu Bing, in a dialogue with Mario Sixth and Hou Hanru, artistic director of the MAXXI.
Wednesday 20 February
– ore 19 THE MAN who stole BANKSY (The Man Who Stole Banksy)
Marco Proserpio, Italy, 2018, 108’
Thursday 21 February
– ore 19 DRAGONFLY EYES (Qing Ting zhi yan) – Original version with English subtitles
di Xu Bing, China, United States, 2017, 81’
Hou Hanru and Mario Sesti will dialogue with Xu Bing
Sunday 3 March
– ore 16 I WAS BORN, MA ... (Umarete wa mita keredo) di Yasujirō Ozu, Japan 1932, 90’
Saturday 9 March
– ore 18 The END OF DAYS
Elio Petri, Italy, 1962, 98’
Saturday 16 March
– ore 18 Pather Panchali (Pather Panchali)
di Satyajit Ray, India, 1955, 125’
CINEMA AND PHOTOGRAPHY
On the occasion of the exhibition "Paolo Pellegrin. An anthology " (open until 10 March) - trip in the production of the extraordinary photographer able to cast off the reporter's vision with an artist's visual intensity - Cinema at MAXXI deepens, two appointments, the relationship between cinema and photography.
Saturday 2 February
– ore 21 EAST
di Pawel Pawlikowski, Denmark, Poland, France, Great Britain, 2013, 82’ – preceded by the short THE JETTY in Chris Marker
Saturday 23 February
– ore 21 LET’S GET LOST
Bruce Weber, United States, 1988, 120’
EXTRA SPECIAL and EXTRA MEETINGS
Celebrations, compliments, readings, conversations with great authors and artists connected to the film adventures and vision, open to dialogue with the curators of the MAXXI and the public
EXTRA SPECIAL
The section will host the "David di Donatello Legacy Event", tribute to a great Italian author of the past, Elio Petri, developed in collaboration with Italian film prize most authoritative and important. Along with Cinecult, Cinema at the MAXXI will celebrate the birthdays of The fleeting moment, Carlo Valli guest, the Italian voice of Robin Williams, e The Wild Bunch, respectively thirty and fifty years after their theatrical release. The Italian-Persian artist Bizhan Bassiri, the protagonist of the documentary The Exact Coincidence of Random Events, It will be the focus of a meeting with the two directors Igor Molino and Francesco Matera; a series in three episodes, aired on Rai 5, He will explore the life and works of Frank Lloyd Wright Architects, Mies van der Rohe, Gio Ponti. A special attention will be devoted to two films, released last year, able to deal in depth and effectively gender issues and gender discrimination: The Miseducation of Cameron Post, presented at the thirteenth Film Festival in Rome, e Girl Luke Dhont, at Cannes 2018 in the section Un Certain Regard.
Saturday 16 February
– ore 18 THE EXACT COINCIDENCE OF RANDOM EVENTS
Igor di Molino, Francesco Matera, Italy, 2018, 55’
The authors and Bizhan Bassiri will dialogue with Mario Sesti before the film
Sunday 24 February - Free entry
– ore 15 DAVID DI DONATELLO LEGACY
In collaboration with the Academy of Italian Cinema – David di Donatello Awards
Tribute to Elio Petri: screening of The Working Class Goes to Heaven e Property Is No Longer a Theft. Following, meeting led by Piera Detassis and Mario Sesti, along with other members of the Academy.
Wednesday 27 February – EXTRA SPECIALE CINECULT | BIRTHDAY
– ore 21 THE FLEETING MOMENT (Dead Poets Society)
di Peter Weir, United States, 1989, 124’
Introduce Carlo Valli, Italian voice of Robin Williams
Sunday 3 March
– ore 18 GIRL
Luke Dhont, Belgium, 2018, 105’
Wednesday 6 March
– ore 21 Miseducation THE POST OF CAMERON (The Miseducation of Cameron Post)
di Desiree Akhavan, United States, 2018, 91’
Wednesday 13 March – EXTRA SPECIALE CINECULT | BIRTHDAY
– ore 20 THE WILD BUNCH (The Wild Bunch)
di Sam Peckinpah, United States, 1969, 135’. In collaboration with Minimum Fax
Sunday 24 March – Free entry
– ore 16 THREE ARCHITECTS
Series three-way bets on Rai 5 on Frank Lloyd Wright Architects, Mies van der Rohe, Gio Ponti
Wednesday 3 April
– ore 21 30 YEARS OF TIME OUT
In cooperation with the Facebook group OVERTIME things (May) views and magnificent obsession, an event curated by Enrico Ghezzi and drafting OVERTIME
EXTRA MEETING
In the preview of opportunity in Italy My brother's name is an idiot and Robert, writer-director Philip Gröning - Special Jury Prize at the Venice film for The Police Officer's Wife - will present his latest film, selected by the Berlin Festival. In other appointments, Valerio Mastandrea will introduce his first feature film, Ride, with the protagonist Chiara Martegiani, while the director Gianni Zanasi and actress Alba Rohrwacher will dialogue with the audience before the screening of the film too kind.
ALICE FAMILY
Five films from animation auteur to modern classics suitable for the whole family
It continues as usual the program devoted to families within the Cinema program at Maxxi.
For four Sundays in the program Alice Family - edited by Alice in the City, directed by Fabia Bettini and Gianluca Giannelli - will point to discover the modern classics that explore genres and themes dear to the public of all ages.
Since father-son relationship, It has declined dramatically in the key films presented to Alice in the city in 2017 Tales of Parvana – co-produced by Angelina Jolie and stretch from Deborah Ellis bestseller – both in shiny key into the superb, award-winning Oscar Paper Moon - Paper Moon di Peter Bogdanovic, until the moving documentary Horse Boy - The love of a father; more amazing from animation genius Henry Selick with James and the Giant Peach magic, director of Tim Burton's masterpieces here is as a producer up to the latest adaptation of the famous story by Jack London, White Fang, visually spectacular and voiced by the great Toni Servillo.
Below is the schedule of screenings of the festival 2019:
SUNDAY 3 FEBRUARY
ore 16.00 TALES OF Parvana
of Nora Twomey, Animation, Canada / Ireland, 2017, 94′
Produced by Angelina Jolie and the creators of the candidate for an Oscar The Secret of Kells e The song of the sea, the film based on the bestselling The story of Deborah Ellis.è Paryana, 11 years, It is growing under the rule of the Taliban of Afghanistan 2001.
Unracconto exciting and timeless on the transcendent power and miraculous stories..
SUNDAY 17 FEBRUARY
ore 16.00 JAMES AND THE GIANT FISHING
of Henry Selick, Fantastic, USA, 1996, 79′
Selick is inspired by the homonymous book by Roald Dahl to create a story that refers to Nightmare before Christmas wanted by Tim Burton. Here it is told of an orphan child who wants to go to America. A Giant Peach become the vehicle that will allow him to reach the goal, with the help of anthropomorphic his garden insects.
SATURDAY 2 MARCH
ore 16.00 WHITE FANG
of Alexandre Espigares, Animation, France, Luxembourg, USA, 2018, 80′
A wolf pup goes into the forest with his mother and runs into an Indian chief, Gray Beaver. The man recognizes the wolf mother's sled dog who had helped him in the past and take her and her son, giving the small named White Fang. A cassico of children's literature suitable for all ages.
SUNDAY 10 MARCH
ore 16.00 PAPER MOON – PAPER MOON
of Peter Bogdanovich, Comedy, USA, 1973, 102′
The title of the film echoes a song popular in the Thirties. A man and a girl (in life the daughter O'Neal), that exceeds the art of live by their wits, perform an adventurous journey through the States and their restless humanity in search of identity. A little gem that won four Academy Award nominations and statuette surprise for the small Tatum O'Neal.
SUNDAY 17 MARCH
ore 16.00 HORSE BOY – The A FATHER OF LOVE
of Michel Orion Scott, Documentary, USA, 2009, 93′
A true story that seems to follow those bogus spiritual exploration in an exotic elsewhere. In Isaacson spouses born a son, after a few years, understand to be autistic. It has communication problems but especially sudden outbursts of despair and anger, unexplained and incurable unless, They discover at a certain point, riding horses. The child was in fact an intimate and special relationship with all the animals. Like many autistic is secured by anything in particular, an area which seems to know and understand everything: the animals.
EXTRA DOC TO SCHOOL
educational Project: Extra Doc to school
Extra Doc to School it's a project by Fondazione Cinema per Roma in collaboration with Alice in the City thanks to the support of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture that aims to enrich the collaboration with schools and the path with the Maxxi and promote documentary from le younger generations, proposing to high school students a series of initiatives to get closer to reality cinema.
Children can, on the one hand, be members of the relevant audience of Extra Doc Festival - thus also participate in person at the screenings, in discussions and the awards competition of documentaries organized as part of Cinema at the MAXXI - the other to study issues of the proposed documentary: the works of Extra Doc Festival They will indeed be made available on the platform "Class Choices" provided by Alice in the City, accompanied by fact sheets. The works will eventually be proposed again to a wider audience of boys within a minirassegna which will take place in the coming months between schools and proximity salt.
One of the most important objectives of Extra Doc to School It is to make available to everyone, and in particular of student generations, opportunities for literacy than the language of images and sounds (cinema, audiovisual, internet culture) to whom, the current state, there are no specific teaching spaces.
- CIAK ALICE YOUNG
Back for the seventh year in a Ciak Alice Young, Ciak d'Oro born from the special monthly CIAK collaboration with ALICE IN THE CITY ', independent and autonomous section of the Rome Film Festival, that rewards films that cater to children and talk about their world.
THE Ciak Alice Young It is not only an award but has become over the years a real educational path that fits right in the educational activities that Alice has in place with the boys and students throughout the year by offering their vision and opportunities to drill comparison.
I 12 selected Italian films chosen by alice together with the drafting of Ciak are exited and output between the 1st May 2018 and the 30 April 2019, They will participate in the educational project, and will be incorporated as an additional route with cards and educational materials and study made by critics of the magazine, in the library of the web platform dedicated to schools.
In the films selected this year we find references to rebellions (Manuel, Twin Flower, The trawler children) and authenticity investigations (Zen - on thin ice); links to unsolved mysteries of fairytale (The bear tales), between cultures and social types (The dell'abbastanza Earth, Bangla); harmonies and appeals to historical moments (It seems my son, The road of Samouni, 1938 - Several). We talk about a lot today our (One day suddenly, Meet Sofia), italiano, European and global. In the context of the Ciak d'Oro, the selection designed for young works as a reactant. A great hope, which focuses on only one conviction: as recalled by Jean-Luc Godard, "Cinema is not just around the cinema".
The films in the running will be voted on by schools that, as usual, Ciak from readers and audiences in Alice Town: vote for one of the selected titles, you can send an email to ciakdoro@ciakmagazine.eu by 21 May 2019 indicating name, surname, phone and, eventually, school home institution. The winning film will receive a plaque during the awards ceremony of the Ciak D'Oro.
Below the selection Ciak Alice Young 2019:
- The road of Samouni Stefano Savona, Italy, 128′ (Cineteca di Bologna)
- Meet Sofia Guido Chiesa, Italy, 98′ (Medusa Film)
- One day suddenly Ciro D'Emilio, Italy, 88′ (No.Mad Entertainment)
- The bear tales Samuel Sestieri, Olmo Amato, Amato with Olmo and Samuel Sestieri, Italy, 67′ (MFN in collaboration with Vivo Film)
- Twin Flower Laura Luchetti, Italy, 95′ (Fandango)
- Bangla of Phaim Bhuiyan, Italy, 84′ (Fandango)
- 1938-DIFFERENT Giorgio Treves, Italy, 62′ (Mariposa Film)
- Zen – on thin ice Margherita Ferri, Italy, 87′ (Cinecittà Luce)
- The Paranza children by Branko, Italy, 105′ (Vision Distribution)
- It seems my son Constance Quatriglio, Italy-Belgium-Croatia-Iran, 103′ (Ascent Film)
- The land dell'abbastanza Damiano D'Innocenzo and Fabio D'Innocenzo, Italy, 96′ (Adler Entertainment)
- Manuel Dario Albertini, Italy, 98′ (Tucker Film)
OTHER EVENTS
On the occasion of Holocaust Memorial Day (Sunday 27 January) and as part of the Science Festival, Cinema at the MAXXI creates a special program
MEMORIAL DAY
Sunday 27 January
– ore 17.30 THE SON OF SAUL (Saul wanted) Laszlo di Stainless, Hungary, 2015,107'Introduction by Pierluigi Battista
Wednesday 10 April
– ore 20.30 GALILEO Liliana Cavani, Italy, 1968, 95’
Sunday 14 April
– ore 20.30 THE MOST UNKNOWN Ian What