From Piazza Grande the focus of the most beautiful films on the maxi screen: SENTIMENTAL VALUE di Joachim Trier insieme a UN SIMPLE ACCIDENT di Jafar Panahi sono due film indimenticabili! We also feature in the International Competition WITH HASAN IN GAZA by Kamal Aljafari (Locarno Luigi Noera - The photos are published due to the kind concession of the #Locarnoff Festival) PIAZZA GRANDE SENTIMENTAL VALUE di Joachim Trier Nora e Agnes si riavvicinano al padre Gustav, charismatic and once famous director, which he offers to Nora, theater actress, a part in the film that will bring him back to prominence. Lei declines, just to find out
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#LOCARNO78 06/16 August 2025 SPECIAL #1 (DAY -1)
From Piazza Grande the focus on #LOCARNO78 films (Locarno Luigi Noera - The photos are published due to the kind concession of the #Locarnoff Festival) The news of an edition of contemporary cinema as Giona A explains to us. Nazzaro in his introduction to the catalogue: “The films of the 78th edition represent what is alive, necessary and daring breathes in contemporary cinema, today. A cinema entirely in the present indicative, devoid of any nostalgia and projected everything forward, towards an open future, mobile, inclusive, to imagine together, again. A playful and dangerous cinema, that yes
#Cannes78 - 13/24 May 2025 SPECIAL #20 (DAY 8)
The critical gaze of Vittorio De Agrò from the Palais (by Cannes Luigi Noira and Vittorio De Agrò (RS) with the kind collaboration of Eleonora Ono - the photos are published courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival) Jafar Panahi merita la Palma d’Oro CONCORSO IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT di Jafar PANAHI Trama: A banal road accident — a car hitting an animal — kicks off a surreal and tragicomic day in Iran. Involved in the event I am a mechanic, a wedding photographer and a bride, who end up confronting a man
Jafar Panahi announces hunger strike from prison
Ci perviene questa dolorosa notizia che pubblichiamo affinchè la pressione dei socila aiutino la liberazione del regista Il famoso regista iraniano Jafar Panahi ha iniziato lo sciopero della fame nella prigione di Evin contro la repressione mascherata da Giustizia Ne da notizia Tahereh Saeidi, director's wife, held in Evin Jail, posting a statement on his Instagram page. Jafar Panahi's statement thus denounces: "The 20 July of this year, in protest against the arrest of two of our beloved colleagues, Mr. Mohammad Rasulof and Mostafa Al-Ahmad, together with a group
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #20: (DAY 11) The Awards with the Golden Lion to Laura Forses
(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) The Exhibition assigns a questionable "political" Golden Lion to the documentary by the American Laura Poitras, giving a consolation prize to the mighty KHERS NIST (NO BEARS) in Jafar Panahi . Once again the interlocking games prevailed over the natural epilogue of the Exhibition. At the end the closing film FC by Francesco Carrozzini The Hanging Sun (REVIEW) The VENICE Jury 79, chaired by
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #17: (DAY 10)
(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) La Mostra da il meglio di se con Susanna Nicchiarelli e Jafar Panahi VENEZIA 79 Concorso CHIARA di SUSANNA NICCHIARELLI con Margherita Mazzucco, Andrea Carpenzano, Carlotta Natoli, Paola Tiziana Cruciani, Luigi Lo Cascio / Italy, Belgium / 106’ SINOSSI Assisi, 1211. Chiara is eighteen years old, and one night he runs away from his father's house to join his friend Francesco. From that moment on, his life changed forever. You don't
MIA MADRE by Nanni Moretti lands in Latin America at the Cartagena Festival 2016
One of the most important film festivals in Latin America opens tomorrow. il Cartagena International Film Festival (FICCI) led by the Artistic Director Diana Bustamante. Here is a summary of this Festival so far from us. The opening film is the Colombian Los Nadie, a debut film by director Juan Sebastián Mesa born in Antioquia. It's a moving story of five young people who live on the streets of a hostile Medellín and share a desire to discover the world. As the days went by, they find a refuge and an outlet for their frustrations in