Guests included Nicole Kidman, Octavia Spencer, Julia Ormond and Bruce Beresford for the opening film Ladies in black, Oliver Stone Jury President, Peter Greenaway, Carolina Crescentini, Donatella Finocchiaro, Riccardo Scamarcio, Paolo Genovese and others

from 30 June to 6 July in the beautiful setting of the Teatro Antico of Taormina will host the sixty-fifth edition of the Taormina Film Fest.

Among the titles the European premiere of the film Spider-Man: Far From Home, which will be screened at the Greek Theater on the evening of 5 July. The film, directed by lon Watts, starring among others by Tom Holland, Michael Keaton. This year the prestigious Taormina Arte Award 2019 It will be given to the actresses Nicole Kidman and Oscar winner Octavia Spencer.

The Festival will have as godmother the actress and Spanish model Roco Munoz Morales, and it will be presented, in the evenings at the Ancient Theater, by the presenter and actress Carolina Di Domenico, It is produced and organized for the second consecutive year by Videobank, in collaboration with the Fondazione Taormina Arte (supported dali’ Regional Department of Tourism and the City of Taormina), under the artistic direction of Silvia Bizio and Gianvito Casadonte.

The total of the Competition sections provide 11 world premieres, 17 European and 14 national. The editorial proposes, Furthermore, 9 feature films out of competition – of which 4 world premieres, 1 European and 4 national – the evening return of seven highly anticipated titles of the great international cinema in the Teatro Antico and a selection of 18 short films. Oliver Stone – which will present the documentary Revealing Ukraine di Igor Lopatonok, of which he is executive producer – It will be the President of the Jury for the feature films section, jury that will include, among others, the writer André Aciman (“Call me with your name”)’ the composer Carlo Siliotto (“The same moon”; “Instructions not included”), actress Julia Ormond, film editor Elisa Bonora, the actress Carolina Crescentini and director Paolo Genovese. In the documentary jury, producer and founder of the company Anonymous Content, Bedonna Smith, the actress Donatella Finocchiaro and director Andrea Pallaoro.

Among the special screenings at the Teatro Antico, the first Italian Yesterday, Danny Boyle's new film, focused on the Beatles, Himesh Patel with James and Lily, and the highly anticipated Amazing Grace, with Aretha Franklin as a young man. Forty-nine years later “Non is They Shoot Horses?” – winner “first” Charybdis in Golden 1970, when Gian Luigi Rondi introduced the competitive section – Amazing Grace It is a documentary film directed by Sidney Pollack and posthumous testament to the best-selling album success of a young Aretha Franklin, along with the Southern California Community Choir and the Rev. James Cleveland, in 1972 the pulpit of a Baptist church to hold a two-day concert, open to public. The film, But, It was never finished due to a technical unforgivable error that did not allow Pollack to synchronize the sound. unbelievable, but true: He lacked the clapper Dracula

The festival will also host the first Italian documentary Sea of Shadows, winner of the Audience Award at the last Sundance Film Festival, directed by Austrian Richard Ladkani and produced by Leonardo DiCaprio's company. he doc, airing in Italy on National Geographic (Sky, 403) in 2020, It follows a group of activists led by the Italian Andrea Crosta – who will be in Taormina with director – struggling to save from extinction the little cow, the smallest whale in the world, icartelli clashing against Mexicans and the Chinese mafia. Andrea Crosta and Richard Ladkani take part, Wednesday 3 July in a round table – moderated by co-artistic director of the festival, Silvia vice – who will talk about the risks of making films' undercover’ and in situations of extreme danger for their safety. This meeting other directors and producers who risk their lives to bring to the public and difficult realities whose films will be screened during the festival.

Another round table will be devoted to women producers and directors, while director Peter Greenaway and actor Riccardo Scamarcio are two of the protagonists of the many master planned. Other guests, Kasia Smutniak with the film Dolce Fine Day, Jacek di Borcuch, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and some members of the Ghanaian Actor's Guild, that will accompany the European premiere azali, directed by Kwabena Gyansah.

Among the many films Spiral Farm, to be presented by the director and the actress protagonist: directorial debut of Alec Tibaldi, son of director Antonio Tibaldi, e’ starring Piper De Palma, daughter of Brian De Palma.

AI festival will also feature Apple, announcing its official entry into an international festival, presenting his new drama series Truth Be To/d, created by Nichelle Tramble and inspired by the novel by Kathleen Barber. Apple will present the documentary “The Elephant Queen”, directed by Mark Deeble e Victoria Stone and the film “Still”, directed by Minhal Baig for the executive production of Jada Pinkett Smith.

Other premieres Italian The farm of our dreams, of John Chester, which will be distributed to cinemas by Teodora Film from next 5 September, the incredible true story, bright hymn to Mother Nature, a California couple on the run from the city to build from nothing always desired farm. In the program of world premiere l'II Find You, of Martha Coolidge (produced by Fred Roos, historical partner Francis Ford Coppola), while the narrative selections include the first Italian Ali Is True, by and with Kenneth Branagh, interpreted by Judi Dench e lan McKellen e To / was, of Dome Karukoski, interpreted by Nicholas Hoult e Lily Collins, which will be released in Italy 26 September distributed by 20th Century Fox: the biographical history The Lord of the Rings, that tells the boy and the man, writer and scholar, behind his immense works. Among the guests of the evening were also Carly Paoli, internationally renowned soprano and Italian origins who has already enchanted audiences around the world, from Carnegie Hall to the Imperial Forums.

After the evening of Tapes, the 30 June in the Teatro Antico, Battle at the short Maxxi (Carlo Carla, 9’) and at 21.00 Ladies in Black di Bruce Beresford, Australia, 2018, 109′

Tuesday 2 July at 20:45 the Ancient Theater will be the turn of Aspromonte - The land of the latest Calopresti

The playbill The festival is dedicated to the sensual play admirably personified by the famous dance scene film “The conformist” Bernardo Bertolucci, to which it is dedicated a tribute to the memory.

The presentation of the Kermesse in Rome at the Casa del Cinema was held in connection with Taormina where there were over as artistic director of the Mayor City, and presenter Carolina Di Domenico.

SkyTg24, Radio Monte Carlo, Società Editrice South, F e MyMovies partners are average!’ event.

For more information: www.taorminafilmfest.it