Taormina Film Fest

67th edition

Taormina, from June 27th to July 3rd 2021

 

 

Produced and organized by Videobank SPA

Artistic Directors: Francesco Alò (Il Messaggero, BadTaste.it), Alessandra De Luca (Avvenire, Ciak) and Federico Pontiggia (La Rivista del Cinematografo, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Movie Mag).

President of the Jury: the director Susanna Nicchiarelli.
After declaring herself “happy and honored”, she added: “it will be a festival to celebrate the bright future of cinema, we will see works by new directors, we will enjoy the beauty of being spectators”.

 

The Taormina Film Fest celebrates the return to the magic of cinema. Comedy, drama, family, horror, dystopia, black Woodstock and great stories of women at the 67th edition, from June 27 to July 3.
An edition of rebirth and restart, in which the six films in competition and the seven national and international premieres will alternate with exhibitions, meetings, an exciting anniversary, a historic restoration and the expected protagonists in the enchanting setting of the Ancient Theater.

This year the Taormina Film Fest 67 will live simultaneously in the suggestive Ancient Theater and in Sicilian movie theaters/cinemas, where some of the films and gala evenings will be screened live, including the opening and closing ceremonies.

 

PROGRAM > www.taorminafilmfest.it/programma

All films are in their original version with subtitles in English

 

SUNDAY 27

4:00 pm, Congress Hall/Palazzo dei Congressi

Cinema and Sicily
(in collaboration with Sicilia Film Commission and Fondazione Taormina Arte)

Film screening: SPACE BEYOND by Francesco Cannavà – ITA 2020, 82′

 

5:00 pm, Casa del Cinema

Opening photo exhibition ‘Sicily and Legality in cinema’
Tribute to Leonardo Sciascia
(in collaboration with Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia)

 

6:00 pm, Casa del Cinema

Presentation of the book: ‘Sciascia e il cinema, conversazioni Fabrizio’ by Fabrizio Catalano
(in collaboration with Centro Sperimentale of Cinematografia)

 

9:00 pm, Ancient Theatre > buy tickets

Opening ceremony of the 67th edition of the Taormina Film Fest

(presenter: Anna Ferzetti with the partecipation of Neri Marcorè, Marco Paolini, Giovanni Storti, Giorgio Tirabassi, Isabel Russinova, Saba Anglana, Mauro Pagani, Davide Ferrario)
Award Ceremony of the Manfredi Prize, in collaboration with Nastri d’Argento

Screening of the opening film: BOYS by Davide Ferrario – ITA, 2020, 97′

 

MONDAY 28

10:00 am, Congress Hall/Palazzo dei Congressi

Film screening in competition: FRACTAL by Rezvan Pakpour – IRAN, 2021, 107′

 

4:30 pm, Casa del Cinema

Presentation of the book: ‘Cinema#Giornalismo’ by Ivan Scinardo
with the partecipation of the author, Laura Delli Colli, Flavio Natalia and one of the directors.
​(in collaboration with Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia)

 

5:30 pm, Congress Hall/Palazzo dei Congressi

Meeting: Cinema and Journalism
(Workshop Catania and one of the directors)
Short film screening MAGIC SHOW by Ornella Sgroi

 

9:00 pm, Ancient Theatre > buy tickets

Film screening LA TERRA DEI FIGLI by Claudio Cupellini – ITA, 2021,120′

 

TUESDAY 29

10:00 am, Congress Hall/Palazzo dei Congressi

Film screening in competition HONEYMOOD by Talya Lavie – ISR, 2020, 90′

 

3:00 pm, Palazzo dei Congressi

Cinema and Sicily
Meeting: On the footsteps Goethe in Sicily
with the theatre director, Peter Stein
(in collaboration with Sicilia Film Commission and Fondazione Taormina Arte)

 

9.00 pm, Ancient Theatre > buy tickets

Film screening OCCHI BLU by Michela Cescon – ITA, 2020, 86′

 

WEDNESDAY 30

10:00 am, Congress Hall/Palazzo dei Congressi

Film screening in competition NEXT DOOR by Daniel Brühl – GER/USA, 2021, 92′

 

4:30 pm, Palazzo Duchi di Santo Stefano

Incontro: Universo Bonelli

 

9:00 pm, Ancient Theatre > buy tickets

Film screening PETER RABBIT 2: THE RUNAWAY by Will Gluck – USA, 2021, 93′

 

11:00 pm, Ancient Theatre

Film screening DREAM HORSE by Euros Lyn – USA/UK, 2020, 113′

 

THURSDAY 1

10:00 am, Congress Hall/Palazzo dei Congressi

Film screening in competition A CLASSIC HORROR STORY by Roberto De Feo and Paolo Strippoli – ITA, 2021, 95′

 

4:00 pm, Congress Hall/Palazzo dei Congressi

Cinema and Sicily

Short films screening by sicilian women directors
(in collaboration with Sicilia Film Commission and Fondazione Taormina Arte)

 

4:30 pm, Palazzo Duchi di Santo Stefano

Presentation of the book: ‘Toccare’ by Federico Capitonie and the manifesto of the Taormina Film Fest
with the presence of the author, and the partecipation of Luigi Mascheroni, Ginevra Chiechio and one of the directors

 

6:00 pm, Palazzo Duchi di Santo Stefano

Meeting: Cinema and Tourism
(in collaboration with ENIT – Agenzia Nazionale del Turismo)
with the partecipation of Gianluca Jodice, Paolo Gianfelici

 

9:00 pm, Ancient Theatre > buy tickets

Film screening THE ROSE MAKER by Pierre Pinaud – FRA, 2020, 105′

 

FRIDAY 2

10: 00 am, Congress Hall/Palazzo dei Congressi

Screening film in competition ATLAS by Niccolò Castelli – SVI/BEL/ITA, 2021, 93′

 

4:00 pm, Casa del Cinema

Cinema e Sicilia

Presentation of the book: ‘Lettere dal Sud ‘ (with Eugenio Attanasio, Ninni Panzera and one of the directors;
in collaboration with Sicilia Film Commission and Fondazione Taormina Arte)

 

4:30 pm, Palazzo Duchi di Santo Stefano

Meeting: The Ladies of Cinema

(with Pina Turco, Susanna Nicchiarelli, Francesca Calvelli, Cecilia Valmarana, Tilde Corsi, Emanuela Volpe, Alessandra De Luca and the other directors)

 

9.30 pm, Ancient Theatre

Short film screening IL RAPIDO DEL SUD by Fausto Saraceni
(in collaboration with Sicilia Film Commission and Fondazione Taormina Arte)

Film screening BRONTE: chronicle of a massacre that history books have not told by Florestano Vancini – ITA, 1972, 126′
(Restoration by the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia) ​

 

SATURDAY 3

10:00am, Congress Hall/Palazzo dei Congressi

Film screening in competition LONG DAY by Yumo Luo – CHINA 2020, 86′

 

3:00 pm, Congress Hall/Palazzo dei Congressi

Cinema and Sicily

Meeting with Giuseppe Tornatore

Film screening LO SCHERMO A TRE PUNTE by Giuseppe Tornatore – ITA, 1995, 105′
(in collaboration with Sicilia Film Commission and Fondazione Taormina Arte)

 

4:00 pm, Palazzo Duchi di Santo Stefano

Presentation of the book: ‘Lo sciamano’ by Salvatore Esposito
(with the participation of the author Salvatore Esposito)

 

5:00 pm, Palazzo Duchi di Santo Stefano

Meeting with Ferzan Ozpetek and the 20 years of THE IGNORANT ANGELS
(with Ferzan Ozpetek, Tilde Corsi and one of the directors)

 

8.30 pm, Ancient Theatre

Closing ceremony and award ceremony of the 67 Taormina Film Fest
(presenter: Anna Ferzetti)

 

9:30 pm, Ancient Theatre

Screening of the film SUMMER OF SOUL by Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson – USA, 2021, 117′

 

 

For press only

Press accreditation requests must be submitted, by June 21st, exclusively online at www.taorminafilmfest.it/press

Online press conference set for June 15th, 11.30 am Rome time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2d2BUf3irY

 

MORE INFO

www.taorminafilmfest.it/en/home

www.facebook.com/taofilmfest

www.facebook.com/taofilmfest/videos/156743799840466

 

 

WHERE TO STAY

Hotel La Pensione Svizzera – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta

Gala Lirico – Voci di Sicilia

by the “Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana”

Ancient Theatre, Sunday 26th June 2021 @9.30 pm

 

Director: Simon Krečič

Sopran: Daniela Schillaci
Mezzo-Sopran: Marianna Pizzolato
Tenor: Antonino Siragusa
Baritone: Nicola Alaimo

 

TICKETS on boxol

Stalls (Parterre – Sector n. 1): € 1650
Gallery (Sector n. 2): € 11,50
Cavea (Upper circle – Sector n. 3): € 11,50

 

PROGRAM

Gioachino Rossini > The Barber of Seville, sinfonia

Gioachino Rossini > Tancredi, “Di tanti palpiti” (Marianna Pizzolato, mezzo-sopran)

Gioachino Rossini > The Barber of Seville, “Largo al factotum” (Nicola Alaimo, baritone)

Gaetano Donizetti > L’elisir d’amore, “Una furtiva lagrima” (Antonino Siragusa, tenor)

Gioachino Rossini > L’italiana in Algeri, “Cruda sorte” (Marianna Pizzolato, mezzo-sopran)

Gaetano Donizetti > L’elisir d’amore, “Voglio dire” (Antonino Siragusa, tenor – Nicola Alaimo, baritone)

Giuseppe Verdi > I vespri siciliani, sinfonia

Giuseppe Verdi > I vespri siciliani, “Mercè, dilette amiche” (Daniela Schillaci, sopran)

Giacomo Puccini > Manon Lescaut, intermezzo sinfonico

Jacques Offenbach > Les contes d’Hoffmann, “Barcarolle: Belle nuit” (Daniela Schillaci, sopran – Marianna Pizzolato, mezzo-sopran)

Giuseppe Verdi > Aida, ballabile

Giuseppe Verdi > Macbeth, “Nel dì della vittoria” (Daniela Schillaci, sopran)

Giuseppe Verdi > Rigoletto, “La donna è mobile” (Antonino Siragusa, tenor)

Giuseppe Verdi > Rigoletto, “Cortigiani, vil razza dannata” (Nicola Alaimo, baritone)

Giuseppe Verdi > Rigoletto, quartetto atto III “Bella figlia dell’amore” (Daniela Schillaci, sopran – Marianna Pizzolato, mezzo-sopran – Antonino Siragusa, tenor – Nicola Alaimo, baritone)

 

 

 

MORE INFO

https://orchestrasinfonicasiciliana.it/it/attivita/estate/gala-lirico-voci-di-sicilia-0

www.facebook.com/orchestrasinfonicasiciliana

www.youtube.com/user/FOSSPalermo/videos

 

 

WHERE TO STAY

Hotel La Pensione Svizzera – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta