PINOCCHIO ALL AGES Animation Italy, Belgium, France and Luxembourg, 2012, 85’ ORIGINAL LANGUAGE Italian DIRECTOR Enzo D'Alò 1 MONDAY 11:00 AM The Carpenter Geppetto builds a marionette and names it Pinocchio. But, on his numerous adventures, the puppet runs into quite a bit of trouble. Fortunately, the (tooth) fairy comes to help, giving him a raven, an owl and a talking cricket. Pinocchio later finds himself on the Island of Toys and is transformed into a donkey. After a brave escape, he ends up in the belly of a (shark) whale where he saves Geppetto, who was also swallowed by the (shark) whale while searching at sea for Pinocchio. VOLEVO NASCONDERMI/ HIDDEN AWAY +13 Italy, 2020, 120’ ORIGINAL LANGUAGE Italian DIRECTOR Giorgio Diritti CAST Germano, Oliver Johann Ewy, Leonardo Carrozzo, Pietro Traldi, Orietta Notari, Andrea Gherpelli, Denis Campitelli, Filippo Marchi, Gianni Fantoni, Paola Lavini, Laura Pizzirani, Maurizio Pagliari, Francesca Manfredini, Daniela Rossi, Mario Perrotta, Paolo Dallasta INTERNATIONAL SALES Rai Com 1 MONDAY 6:00 PM (5:50 PM video greetings of the Festival godmother Sara Serraiocco) Antonio is expelled from Switzerland to Italy against his will. For years he lives in poverty in the Po floodplains, but he never gives up his passion for drawing. The story of Antonio Ligabue, a revolutionary loner in modern art. 8:00 PM encounter with the cast of HIDDEN AWAY LE AVVENTURE DI PINOCCHIO / THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO ALL AGES Italy, 1971, part 1 - part 2 ORIGINAL LANGUAGE Italian DIRECTOR Luigi Comencini CAST Nino Manfredi, Gina Lollobrigida, Andrea Balestri, Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Vittorio De Sica, Ugo D’Alessio, Domenico Santoro, Lionel Stander 2 TUESDAY 11:00 AM Geppetto, the carpenter makes a wooden puppet and names him Pinocchio. The puppet, promising that he’d behave well, was changed into a real boy by the good fairy. But his lively and rebellious spirit will earn him more than one punishment.. PUNTASACRA +11 Italy, 2020, 96’ ORIGINAL LANGUAGE Italian DIRECTOR Francesca Mazzoleni INTERNATIONAL SALES True Colours 2 TUESDAY 4:30 PM The last patch of land - the last triangle of habitable space at the mouth of the Tiber. Its inhabitants call it Punta Sacra, Sacred Point. Realism and imaginary constantly intertwine in this suburb of Rome, where Franca leads an all-female community. A family hanging between nostalgia and an inevitable pragmatism, constantly struggling between a strong sense of belonging and the lack of opportunities for the new generations. 6:30 PM encounter with the cast of the film PUNTASACRA PADRENOSTRO +13 Italy, 2020, 121’ ORIGINAL LANGUAGE Italian DIRECTOR Claudio Noce CAST Pierfrancesco Favino, Barbara Ronchi, Mattia Garaci, Francesco Gheghi, Antonio Gerardi, Francesco Colella, Anna Maria De Luca, Mario Pupella, Lea Favino, Eleonora De Luca, Simone Chiacchiararelli INTERNATIONAL SALES Vision Distribution 2 TUESDAY 7:30 PM Rome, 1976. Valerio (10) is a boy of vivid imagination whose life falls apart when he witnesses a group of terrorists attempt to take his father’s life. The impact on the family is dramatic, and everybody is overwhelmed with feelings of fear and vulnerability when a new boy arrives on the scene. 9:30 PM encounter with the cast of the film PADRENOSTRO PINOCCHIO ALL AGES Italy, 2009 ORIGINAL LANGUAGE Italian DIRECTOR Alberto Sironi CAST Robbie Kay, Bob Hoskins, Luciana Littizzetto, Margherita Buy, Violante Placido, Toni Bertorelli, Franscesco Pannofino, Alessandro Gassmann 3 WEDNESDAY 11:00 AM Searching for inspiration for his new fairy tale, Collodi (Alessandro Gassman), tells the tale himself with the support of an excellent cast (Violante Placido, Margherita Buy, Bob Hoskins as Geppetto and a surprising Luciana Littizzetto as the Talking Cricket), the birth of one of the most well-loved classics of all times: “Pinocchio”. PALAZZO DI GIUSTIZIA / ORDINARY JUSTICE +13 Italy/Switzerland, 2020, 84’ ORIGINAL LANGUAGE Italian DIRECTOR Chiara Bellosi CAST Daphne Scoccia, Bianca Leonardi, Sarah Short, Nicola Rignanese, Giovanni Anzaldo, Andrea Lattanzi, Roberto Sbaratto, Simone Moretto, Margherita Coldesina, Michele Franco, Marco Rosafio, Cinzia Morandi, Debora Benincasa INTERNATIONAL SALES Vision Distribution 3 WEDNESDAY 4:30 PM A day of ordinary justice in a large Italian courthouse. At the center, in the heart of the building, a hearing. We see rituals, robes, interrogations, evidences, witnesses. Two girls wait in front of a closed courtroom door. 6:30 PM encounter with the cast of the film ORDINARY JUSTICE PRINCESS Shortfilm Italy, 2021, 17’ DIRECTOR Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino 3 WEDNESDAY 9:00 PM screnning and encounter with the directors A silent community that lives on the edge of the river, in the center of Rome: men and women whose existence is ignored. As in an Italian Parasite, the protagonists of the short film are invisible to the city, and while the adults try to save what is left of their lives, three little girls imagine that to have a new home, it is enough to make a wish. A short film that has the great ambition of erasing the distance and put in contact worlds that are only seemingly disconnected. PINOCCHIO ALL AGES Italy, 2002, 111’ ORIGINAL LANGUAGE Italian DIRECTOR Roberto Benigni CAST Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Max Cavallari, Bruno Arena, Carlo Giuffrè, Peppe Barra, Kim Rossi Stuart, Alessandro Bergonzoni, Mino Bellei, Franco Javarone, Lamberto Consani, Luis Molteni, Corrado Pani 4 THURSDAY 11:00 AM From the famous story by Carlo Collodi. Pinocchio, a wooden pupett build by the carpenter Geppetto, has various adventures and meets many of people on his journey to become a real child. On the way, he's helped by the Talking Cricket and above all, the Blue Fairy.. I PREDATORI / THE PREDATORS +14 Italy, 2020, 109’ ORIGINAL LANGUAGE Italian DIRECTOR Pietro Castellitto CAST Massimo Popolizio, Manuela Mandracchia, Pietro Castellitto, Giorgio Montanini, Dario Cassini, Anita Caprioli, Marzia Ubaldi, Antonio Gerardi, Nando Paone, Vinicio Marchioni, Claudio Camilli, Liliana Fiorelli, Renato Marchetti, Giulia Petrini, Francesco Borghese INTERNATIONAL SALES Fandango 4 THURSDAY 4:30 PM This is the story of two households that are complete opposites: the Pavone and Vismara families. One bourgeois and intellectual and the other proletarian and Fascist, these apparently contrary family units share the same jungle: Rome. A trivial accident will bring these two poles together. 6:30 PM encounter with the cast of the film THE PREDATORS 4 THURSDAY 9:00 PM MASTERCLASS with Marco Franzoso about Pinocchio between literature and cinema, still a modern character after 140 years Marco Franzoso was born in 1965 and is hailed as one of Italy’s most important contemporary authors. Two of his novels, Tu Non Sai Cos’è L’Amore and Westwood dee-jay, have been made into theatre shows. Il Bambino Indaco, published by Einaudi in 2012, became a movie (Hungry Hearts), directed by Saverio Costanzo and starring Alba Rohrwacher and Adam Driver, both of whom received awards for their performances at the Venice Film Festival in 2014. Mi Piace Camminare Sui Tetti was published by Rizzoli in 2016, and L’Innocente was published by Mondadori in 2018, winning the Mondello Giovani Prize. Marco’s latest novel, Le Parole Lo Sanno, was published by Mondadori in March 2020. PINOCCHIO ALL AGES Italy/France, 2019, 124’ ORIGINAL LANGUAGE Italian DIRECTOR Matteo Garrone CAST Federico Ielapi, Roberto Benigni, Gigi Proietti, Rocco Papaleo, Massimo Ceccherini, Enzo Vetrano, Marine Vacth, Alida Baldari Calabria, Alessio Di Domenicantonio, Maria Pia Timo, Davide Marotta, Paolo Graziosi, Massimiliano Gallo, Gianfranco Gallo, Teco Celio, Maurizio Lombardi, Nino Scardina INTERNATIONAL SALES Hanway 5 FRIDAY 4:30 PM In this new imagining of the iconic classic beloved across the world, Matteo Garrone returns to the authentic roots of the Pinocchio story. With this groundbreaking live action film shot in stunning Italian locations, Garrone creates a rich fantasy world of mystery and wonder, filled with luminous, funny and touching moments. 6:30 PM encounter with the cast of the film PINOCCHIO NON ODIARE / THOU SHALT NOT HATE +13 Italy/Poland, 2020, 95’ ORIGINAL LANGUAGE Italian DIRECTOR Mauro Mancini CAST Alessandro Gassmann, Sara Serraiocco, Luka Zunic, Lorenzo Buonora INTERNATIONAL SALES Intramovies 5 FRIDAY 7:30 PM The son of a Holocaust survivor who lives in Trieste as a surgeon begins to doubt his actions of refusing to help a victim of a traffic accident that he encountered on his way home from work. 9:00 PM encounter with the cast of the film THOU SHALT NOT HATE IL MIO CORPO +11 Switzerland/Italy, 2020, 82’ ORIGINAL LANGUAGE Italian DIRECTOR Michele Pennetta INTERNATIONAL SALES Lightdox 6 SATURDAY 4:30 PM Oscar, the young Sicilian, and Stanley the Nigerian don’t seem to have much in common. Except for the feeling of being thrown into the world, to suffer the same refusal, the same overwhelming wave of choices imposed on them by others. 6:30 PM encounter with the cast of the film IL MIO CORPO .