TAORMINA FILM FEST 30 june65 6 july 2019

"Le persone veramente serie non sono mai serie" ( Il Conformista, Alberto Moravia, 1951) TAORMINA FILM FEST PROGRAMMA 30 june 6 july 2019 SPECIALGIURIA CONCORSO LUNGOMETRAGGI EVENT IL PROGRAMMA Silvia Bizio e Gianvito Casadonte Co-direttori artistici / Co artistic directors FEATURE FILM COMPETITION JURY THE PROGRAM 65 Con la 65ª edizione del Taormina FilmFest vogliamo avvicinare il più possibile Oliver Stone - Presidente Concorso lungometraggi il cinema alla città e ai giovani, dar loro la possibilità di avere un incontro André Aciman Feature Film Competition ravvicinato con quest’arte. Ecco dunque le numerose masterclass con attori Elisa Bonora e registi italiani e internazionali: un’occasione irripetibile per giovani cinefili. Abbiamo rinnovato il carattere competitivo con film in concorso suddivisi in Carolina Crescentini Concorso documentari tre sezioni (Feature Film, Documentary e Center Stage), ripristinando premi Paolo Genovese Documentary Competition FEATUREstorici come il Cariddi sia per film che per documentari oltreFILM al Taormina COMPETITION Julia Ormond Arte Award. Un evento prodotto da Videobank in collaborazione con la Premio del Campus Carlo Siliotto PROIEZIONI / SCREENINGS Fondazione Taormina Arte, l’Assessorato Regionale al Turismo della Regione Center Stage Competition Sicilia e il Comune di Taormina. Teatro Antico The 65th edition of the Taormina FilmFest intends to reconnect cinema to GIURIA CONCORSO DOCUMENTARI Fuori Concorso Palazzo dei Congressi DOCUMENTARYthis city and the young people, giving them the chance for a close encounter COMPETITIONSpotlight - Out of Competition with this art. Thus the many masterclasses with Italian and International actors DOCUMENTARY JURY (Sala A, Sala B, Green Room) and directors, a fantastic opportunity for our young cinephiles. We renewed Piazza Vittorio Emanuele the competitive nature of the Fest with films in competition divided in three Patrizia Chen Eventi Speciali sections (Feature Films, Documentaries and Center Stage); bringing back Donatella Finocchiaro Special Events historical awards such as the Cariddi for best drama and documentary and the Casa del Cinema - Corso Umberto, 61 Taormina Arte Award. The event is produced by Videobank in collaboration Andrea Pallaoro with the Fondazione Taormina Arte, the Assessorato Regionale al Turismo Bedonna Hayes Smith Masterclass Taormina Regione Sicilia and the City of Taormina. CENTER STAGE COMPETITIONFilm delegation attendance JUNE 30 - Sunday 10.30 GREEN ROOM 14.30 Sala B 18.30 Sala B CASA DEL CINEMA OPENING DAY Allahu Akbar Daughter of the Wolf PRESS CONFERENCE Dirs. Farhat Qazi, Farhan Alam Dir. David Hackl 12.30 Presentazione numero drama action- thriller Pakistan, 2019, 87’, Canada, 2019, 91’, monografico rivista starring Farhat Qazi, Shabbir Jan, Qavi Khan starring Gina Carano, Richard Dreyfuss, 12.00 Sala A “Bianco e nero” su Brendan Fehr, Anton Gillis-Adelman The Biggest Little Farm feature film competition Bernardo Bertolucci e center stage competition presentazione Dir. John Chester del nuovo bando della USA, 2018, 91’ 16.30 Sala A 20.45 Teatro Antico Sede Sicilia del Centro starring John Chester, Molly Chester, In conversation with Sperimentale di Cinematografia. Fanfara 12° Reggimento Matthew Pilachowski Con Felice Laudadio, documentary competition Carabinieri Sicilia Alessandro Rais, Ivan Scinardo, 16.30 Sala B Taormina Arte Award Costanza Quatriglio 12.30 Sala B Bruce Beresford e Ninni Panzera In the Life of Music Stooge Dirs. Caylee So, Visal Sok Dir. Madeleine Farley Battaglia al Maxxi drama-family-history UK/France/USA, 2017, 75’ (Carlo Carlei, , 9’) USA/Cambodia 2018, 92’, documentary-music starring Vandarith Phem, Sreynan Chea, starring Iggy Pop 14.00 / 20.00 Roza Las, Thouna Kanika Ladies in Black PALAZZO DEI CONGRESSI feature film competition center stage competition Dir. Bruce Beresford Australia, 2018, 109’, dramedy Annullo Filatelico 14.00 Sala A 18.00 Sala A starring Julia Ormond, Angourie Rice, Poste Italiane L ’Appel du Sang Rachael Taylor, Alison McGirr, Il Traditore Ryan Corr, Vincent Perez. Dir. Dir. Louis Mercanton Italy/France/Brazil/Germany, 2019, 145’ France, 1919, 57’, B/W, classic cinema biography-crime-drama starring Charles Le Bargy, Ivor Novello, starring Pierfrancesco Favino, , Phyllis Neilson-Terry, Desdemona Mazza Fabrizio Ferracane Accompagnamento musicale/ special event Live musical accompaniment Giovanni Renzo Un Amore Selvaggio (Raffaele Viviani, Italy, 23’) special event

10.00 Sala A 12.30 Sala B 17.00 Sala A JULY 1 - Monday This Teacher Desolation Center In conversation with Dir. Mark Jackson Dir. Stuart Swezey Nicole Kidman USA, 2018, 95’, drama USA, 2018, 94’ starring Hafsia Herzi, Sarah Kazemy, starring Thurston Moore, Mike Watt, Blixa Bargeld, 18.00 Sala A Lucy Walters, Kevin Kane Curt Kirkwood, Lee Ranaldo feature film competition Amare Amaro documentary competition Dir. Julien Paolini 10.30 Sala B France, 2019, 89’, drama 14.00 Sala A starring Gabriele Arena, Barbara Bacci, Spare Room The Best of Enemies Paolo Brancati, Francesco Caltabiano Dir. Jenica Bergere Dir. Robin Bissell, USA, 2019, 133’, biopic-drama feature film competition USA, 2018, 97’, drama spotlight – out of competition starring Skyler Samuels, Martin Sensmeier, Cole Sibus 18.30 Sala B center stage competion 14.30 Sala B Be Natural: Italian Shorts Selection The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché 12.00 Sala A Gancio Cielo (Giulio Pietromarchi, 12’) Dir. Pamela B. Green Vai Plastica (Dario Ciulla, 8’) USA, 2018, 103’, col-B/W, documentary Dir. Becs Arahanga, et al., Il tesoro della principessa (Sebastiano Rizzo, 16’) starring Alice Guy-Blanché, Evan Rachel Wood, Genericamente (Cristiano Anania, 18’) , Andy Samberg, Geena Davis, Āotearoa New Zealand, 2019, 90’, drama , Agnès Varda starring Mereani Tuimatanisiga, ‘Ar-Ramadi Longopoa, Le avventure di Mr. Food and Mrs. Wine spotlight – out of competition Betsy Luitolo, Evotia-Rose Araiti (Antonio Silvestre, 18’) feature film competition Baradar (Beppe Tufarulo, 15’) Anna (Federica D’Ignoti, 9’) 20.45 Teatro Antico CASA DEL CINEMA Insane love (Eitan Pitigliani, 20') Taormina Arte Award Nicole Kidman 12.30 “Indie Exhibition and Distribution in 2019” 16.30 Sala B with Peter Baxter, director Slamdance Film Festival Yesterday La Partita 15.30 Canon Today Dir. Danny Boyle Glass First - Le diverse gamme di obiettivi Canon Dir. Francesco Carnesecchi drama UK, 2019, 112’, comedy-music nella produzione video. Con D.Metalli Italy, 2018, 94’, starring Francesco Pannofino, Alberto Di Stasio, Gabriele starring Himesh Patel, Lily James, Ed Sheeran, Kate McKinnon 18.00 Flazio L'esperienza digitale nel mondo del cinema Fiore, Stefano Ambrogi center stage competition 12.30 Sala B 16.30 Sala B 20.45 Teatro Antico JULY 2 - Tuesday Panel - Women Behind the Camera Italian Shorts Selection Taormina Arte Award with Martha De Laurentiis, Il giorno più bello (Valter D’Errico, 14’) Fulvio Lucisano e 10.00 Sala A Svetlana Cvetko, Bedonna Hayes Smith, Sei Mia (Annamaria Spina, 6’) Aspromonte – La terra degli ultimi Indimenticabile Debra Eisenstadt, Bianca Goodloe, Conroy Kanter Mia (Mario Spinocchio, 6’) (Gianluca Santoni, Italy, 20’) Dir. Mimmo Calopresti 14.00 Sala A The noisy silence (Agostiono Fontana, 15’) Italy, 2019, 89’, drama Welcome Home Imaginary Order Haiti starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, , Dir. George Ratliff Francesco Colella, Marco Leonardi, Sergio Rubini Dir. Debra Eisenstadt Dir. Marco Salom USA, 2018, 97’, thriller USA, 2019, 101’, drama starring Emily Ratajkowski, Aaron Paul, starring Wendi McLendon-Covey, Christine Woods, Italy, 2018, 45’, starring Martina Colombari Max Burkholder, Steve Little spotlight – out of competition feature film competition 18.00 Sala A CASA DEL CINEMA 10.30 Sala B 14.30 Sala B Show Me What You Got Ploey – You Will Never Fly Alone I LWost My Mother’s Ashes Dir. Svetlana Cvetko 11.00 (Caitlin Gerard, USA, 13’) USA, 2019, 100’, B/W, drama-romance Canon Today Dir. Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson Glass First - Iceland/Belgium, 2018, 83’, animation-family starring Karen Obilom, Anne Brochet, Slipaway David Sheftell, Neyssan Falahi Le diverse gamme di starring Jamie Oram, Harriet Perring, Dirs. Julia Butler, Daniel Mentz, obiettivi Canon nella Iain Stuart Robertson, Sean Astin feature film competition USA, 2017, 89’, drama produzione center stage competition starring Elaine Partnow, Jesse Pepe video. Con D.Metalli center stage competition 18.30 Sala B 12.00 Sala A Astronaut 16.30 Tolkien 16.00 Sala A Dir. Shelagh McLeod Canon Today Dir. Dome Karukoski Song of the Tree Storytelling video: Canada, 2019, 97’, drama le idee e gli USA, 2019, 112’, biopic-drama-war Dir. Aibek Daiyrbekov starring Richard Dreyfuss, Lyriq Bent, Colm Feore strumenti starring Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Kyrgyzstan/Russia, 2018, 93’, action-drama-history spotlight – out of competition nei corti e nei Genevieve O’Reilly, Colm Meaney starring Temirlan Smanbekov, videoclip. spotlight – out of competition Omurbek Izrailov, Saltanat Bakaeva Con I.D’Antonio feature film competition JULY 3 - Wednesday 14.00 Sala A 16.30 Sala B 20.45 Teatro Antico 10.00 Sala A A Son of Man Arrhythmia Taormina Arte Award Dir. Jamaicanoproblem Dir. Gibran Bazan Peter Greenaway Picture Character Ecuador, 2018, 91’, realismo fantastico Mexico, 2019, 90’, drama Dirs. Martha Shane, Ian Cheney, starring Luis Felipe Fernandez-Salvador y Campodonico, starring Fernando Sarfati, Valentina Buzzurro, Amazing Grace USA/Germany/Japan/Argentina/ Luis Felipe Fernandez-Salvador y Boloña Patrizia Schiavo, Salvatore Nocera Realized and Produced by Alan Elliott Austria, 2019, 80’ feature film competition center stage competition USA, 2018, 89’, documentary, music documentary competition starring Aretha Franklin, Reverend James Cleveland, Southern California Community Choir 10.30 Sala B 14.30 Sala B 18.00 Sala A Dolce Fine Giornata Cruel Peter Panel – Filming Dangerously Demolition Girl Dir. Jacek Borcuch Dirs. Ascanio Malgarini, with Shannon Service, Andrea Crosta, Dir. Genta Matsugami drama Christian Bisceglia drama Poland, 2019, 92’, Richard Ladkani, Rûken Tekeş, Japan, 2019, 88’, starring Krystyna Janda, Kasia Smutniak, starring Aya Kitai, Hiroki Ino, Haruka Imo, Yura Komuro Italy, 2019, 90’, horror Lily van Ghemen Vincent Riotta, starring Henry Douthwaite, Zoe Nochi, center stage competition Katia Greco, Rosie Fellner 12.00 Sala A special event Sea of Shadows 16.00 Sala A 18.30 Sala B Dir. Richard Ladkani In conversation with Dallas in Prizzi Austria, 2019, 104’ Peter Greenaway Dir. Luca Vullo starring Andrea Crosta, Cynthia Smith, Italy, 2018, 43’ Jack Hutton, Javier Valverde starring Frank Campagna, Olivia Cole, documentary competition Maria Haag 12.30 SALA B documentary competition Suburban Wildlife Seadrift Dir. Imogen McCluskey Dir. Tim Tsai Australia, 2019, 90’, drama USA, 2019, 65’ starring Maddy McWilliam, Hannah Lehmann, documentary competition Priscilla Doueihy, Alex King center stage competition CASA DEL CINEMA

11.00 Canon Today 15.00 Canon Today 18.30 Spazio al Sud Storytelling video: le idee e gli strumenti nei corti e nei Sistemi reflex e mirrorless: quale futuro? “Pino Mercanti. Un regista siciliano tra realtà e utopia” videoclip. Con I.D’Antonio I settaggi macchina per le applicazioni nel mondo di Mauro e Nino Genovese (Algra Editore) photo e video. Con A.Czajkowski JULY 4 - Thursday 12.30 Sala B 16.00 Sala A 20.45 Teatro Antico CASA DEL CINEMA International Shorts Selection Ellen: Die storie Van Ellen Pakkies Orchestra a plettro 10.30 Canon Today Dir. Daryne Joshua, Città di Taormina 10.00 Sala A Moon Drops Sistemi reflex e South Africa, 2018, 123’, drama (Yoram Ever-Hadani, /Serbia, 16’) Premio Angelo D’Arrigo mirrorless: Visioni Private starring Jill Levenberg, Jarrid Geduld, quale futuro? Dir. Ninni Bruschetta, Francesco Calogero, Tunnel Ball (Davis Jensen, Australia, 11’) Elton Landrew, Elton Landrew, Clint Brink Oliver Stone I settaggi macchina Donald Ranvaud Pepper (Jayil Pak, Korea, 15’) feature film competition per le applicazioni nel La ricetta della mamma mondo photo e video. Italy, 1988, 92’, drama Something to live for Con A.Czajkowski starring Jessica Forde, Patrick Bauchau (Adva Reichman, USA/Israel, 18’) 16.30 Sala B (Dario Piana, Italy, 15’) Ninni Bruschetta, Antonio Caldarella Nur (Gal Lin, Israel,15’,) Spiral Farm Born on the Fourth of July 14.30 International special event Short Selection Cannonball (Sean Fredricks , SA, 17’) Dir. Alec Tibaldi Dir. Oliver Stone Chameleon 10.30 Sala B American Marriage (Giorgio Arcelli, USA, 14’) USA, 2019, 85’, drama USA, 1989, 145’, drama (Alessio Marzilli, UK, 19’) Wrinkles (Marco Bizio, USA, 11’) starring Piper De Palma, starring , Hallo Tel Aviv? Memphis ‘69 Amanda Plummer, Teo Halm, Landen , Kyra Sedgwick, (Dana Venezia, Israel,14’) Dir. Joe LaMattina, USA, 2019, 72’ Beattie Raymond J. Barry, Flotando starring Johnny Winter, Rufus Thomas, John D. 14.00 Sala A Carolina Kava, Josh Evans (Frankie De Leonardis, Loudermilk, Bukka White Portraitist 18.30 Sala A Spain, 8’) documentary competition Teppichluder (Cyrus Neshvad, Luxembourg, 15’) Revealing Ukraine (Alexander Lony, Dir. Igor Lopatonok Germany, 3’) 12.00 Sala A Them That Follow Neighbor's Window Dirs. Britt Poulton, Dan Madison Savage USA, 2019, 92’, documentary (Marshall Curry, USA, 20') In conversation with starring Viktor Medvedchuk, Oliver Stone USA 2019, 98’, thriller Oksana Marchenko, Vladimir Putin, 16.30 Canon Today starring Olivia Colman, Thomas Mann, Alice Englert Lee Stranahan Dal documentario al feature film special event videoclip musicale: produzione, shooting e post-produzione. 14.30 Sala B 18.30 Sala B Con P. Baccolo Diane Ghost Fleet 18.30 Spazio al Sud Dir. Kent Jones Dirs. Shannon Service, Jeffrey Waldron “Dai corsari ai Viceré. USA, 2018, 96’, drama USA, 2018, 90’ Acireale nel Cinema dalle starring Mary Kay Place, Jake Lacy, Estelle Parsons, starring Tun Lin, Patima Tungpuchayakul, origini a oggi” Andrea Martin, Deirdre O’Connell Chutima “Oi” Sidasathian di Franco La Magna spotlight – out of competition documentary competition (Algra Editore) 12.30 Sala B 16.30 Sala B 20.45 Teatro Antico JULY 5 - Friday Skin A Tuba to Cuba Taormina Arte Award (Guy Nattiv, USA, 21’) Dirs. T.G. Herrington, Danny Clinch Octavia Spencer 10.00 Sala A USA/Cuba, 2018, 83’ One Child Nation Aether starring Win Butler, Ben Jaffe, Charlie Gabriel, Walter The Elephant Queen Dirs. Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang Harris, Regine Chassagne Dir. Rûken Tekeş, Dirs. Mark Deeble, Victoria Stone USA/China, 2019, 85’ documentary competition Turkey, 2019, 82’ Kenya/UK, 2019, 96’, documentary, family documentary competition documentary competition 18.00 Sala A Spider-Man: Far From Home 14.00 Sala A Picciridda Dir. Jon Watts 10.30 Sala B Nido de Mantis Dir. Paolo Licata USA, 2019, 135’, action, adventure, sci-fi Flatland Dir. Arturo Sotto Díaz Italy, 2019, 95’, drama starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, Samuel L. Jackson, and Jake Gyllenhaal Dir. Jenna Bass, Cuba, 2018, 118’, drama starring Lucia Sardo, Marta Castiglia, South Africa, 2019, 117’, adventure, western starring, Yara Masiel, Armando Miguel Gómez, Ileana Rigano, Loredana Marino, Claudio Collovà starring Faith Baloyi, Nicole Fortuin, Caleb Casas, Yadier Fernández feature film competition Izel Bezuidenhout feature film competition center stage competition 14.30 Sala 18.30 Sala B Midnight Family 12.00 Sala A Happy Face Dir. Luke Lorentzen In conversation with Dir. Alexandre Franchi, Mexico, 2019, 81’ Canada, 2018, 97’, drama documentary competition Richard Dreyfuss starring Robin L’Houmeau, Debbie Lynch-White, David Roche, E.R. Ruiz center stage competition CASA DEL CINEMA 16.15 Sala A Hala 11.00 Canon Today 18.30 Spazio al Sud Dir. Minhal Baig Dal documentario al WOmaggio a Sebastiano Gesù. videoclip musicale: Presentazione libro USA, 2019, 94’, drama produzione, shooting e “La magnifica visione. starring Geraldine Viswanathan, Jack Kilmer, post-produzione. Con P. Baccolo Il paesaggio siciliano nel cinema” Gabriel Luna, Purbi Joshi, Azad Khan di Sebastiano Gesù (40due Edizioni) feature film competition

JULY 6 - Saturday 12.30 Sala B 14.30 Sala B 20.45 Teatro Antico The Christmas Gift Massimo Kids Orchestra e Mario Incudine I’ll Find You (Bogdan Muresanu, Romania, 23’) 10.00 Sala A Dir. Martha Coolidge Awards Ceremony Azali USA, 2019, 115’, drama I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History Taormina Arte Award Dir. Kwabena Gyansah Adelaide Clemens, Leo Suter, Ursula Parker as Barbarians Martha Coolidge Ghana-West Africa, 2018, 89’, drama special event Dir. Radu Jude, starring Asana Alhasan, Akofa Edjeani, Ajetey Anang, Romania/Germany/Bulgaria/France/Czech I’ll Find You Mohammed Halfiz, Ama K. Abebrese 14.00 Sala A Republic, 2018, 140’, comedy, drama Dir. Martha Coolidge feature film competition Ciruzziello starring Ioana Iacob, Alex Bogdan, Alexandru Dabija USA, 2019, 115’, drama (Ciro D’Aniello, Italy, 11’) special event - focus rumeno Adelaide Clemens, Leo Suter, Ursula Parker 10.30 Sala B special event The Hidden Fountain Tutto Liscio! 16.00 Sala A Dir. Raquel Chalfi Dir. Igor Maltagliati All is True Israel, 2019, 100’ Italy, 2018, 100’, comedy Dir. documentary competition Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Serena Grandi, Ivano Marescotti, Piero Maggiò UK, 2018, 101’, biography, drama, history special event starring Kenneth Branagh, , Ian McKellen, 11.45 Sala A Kathryn Wilder, Lolita Chakrabarti Walter Treppiedi spotlight – out of competition (Elena Bouryka, Italy, 15') 18.00 Sala A 12.00 Sala A A Rose in Winter In conversation with Dir. Joshua Sinclair Daniele Luchetti UK, 2019, 135’, drama Margherita Buy starring Zana Marjanovic, Christian Cooke, Ken Duken, Anja Kruse, Franco Nero CASA DEL CINEMA spotlight – out of competition 12.00Short on AIDS prevention 18.30 Sala B Una specie di magia Dir. Giacomo Maimone, Italy, 19' Il Gigante pidocchio Dir. Paolo Santangelo, Italy, 2018, 80’ 17.00 Flazio L'esperienza digitale nel mondo del cinema special event

presenta IN COPERTINA MOSTRE/EXHIBITIONS Sicilia Vernacolare: INFO La locandina del Interni e paesaggi di sostenibilità isolana Le Stelle di Taormina Taormina Film Fest 65 Vernaculari : The Stars of Taormina TICKETS è dedicata alla celebre Interiors and lanscapes of island sustainability Taormina scena del ballo nel film Manifesti e fotografie dei film girati a Taormina Palazzo dei Congressi "Il Conformista" Posters and Photos of the Film shot in Taormina mostra fotografica / photo exhibition Casa del Cinema, Corso Umberto, 61 del 1970 di by Claudio Santini a cura di / by Ninni Panzera Bernardo Bertolucci, BoxOffice Sicilia www.ctbox.it al quale viene tributato 30 giugno - 6 luglio 2019 18 maggio - 1 settembre 2019 un omaggio alla Taormina - Palazzo dei Cogressi 10.00/20.00 - lunedì chiuso/ closed on Monday memoria. Taormina - Casa del Cinema (+39) 3358431804 - www.taorminafilmfest.it

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