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/videos/156743799840466
WHERE TO STAY
Hotel La Pensione Svizzera – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta