Exhibition of contemporary art

Le Cento Sicilie, il più ibrido dei continenti

Palazzo Ciampoli, from July 17th to November 14th 2021

Everyday 9.00am – 7.00pm, free entrance

Organised by the Archaelogical Park of Naxos Taormina, Gabriella Tigano director

Curator of the exhibition: Diego Cavallaro and Giuseppe Vella

AUTORS

Alessandro Bazan (Palermo 1966), Giovanni Blanco (Ragusa 1980), Barbara Cammarata (Catania 1977), Giuseppe Colombo (Modica 1971), Emanuele Giuffrida (Gela 1982), Giovanni Iudice (Gela 1970), Giovanni La Cognata (Comiso 1954), Filippo La Vaccara (Catania 1972), Franco Polizzi (Scicli 1954), Ignazio Schifano Palermo 1976), Samantha Torrisi (Catania 1977) e William Marc Zanghi (Wichita, Kansas 1972).

Twelve contemporary artists each exhibiting four works accompanied by QR info.

Sicily boasts multiple identities where history has been weaving the events of men and cultures for centuries.

 

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Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini

Conductor: Riccardo Muti

Ancient Theatre, Wednesday 14th July 2021 @ 9.30pm

 

Musics by

  • Vincenzo Bellini > Symphony from Norma
  • Franz Schubert > Symphony no. 9 in C major “La Grande” D944

 

 

Founded by Riccardo Muti in 2004, the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra was named after one of the finest composers of all times, born in Italy but active all over Europe. This choice underlines the Orchestra’s vocation, combining a strong Italian identity with a natural inclination towards a European vision of music and culture. The Youth Orchestra, a privileged link between the conservatoires and the professional world, set up its residence in Piacenza, and elected the Ravenna Festival as its summer home. The young instrumentalists of the Cherubini Youth Orchestra are all under 30, and come from all over Italy. They were selected through audition by a committee of top musicians from prestigious European orchestras, headed by Riccardo Muti himself. Dynamism and continuous renewal are a distinctive feature of the Orchestra, and it is in this perspective that members are only appointed for a period of three years, after which they may start collaboration with a major professional orchestra.

 

 

TICKETS on boxol

Stalls and Gallery: € 42,00
Cavea (Upper circle): € 22,00

 

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Taormina Film Fest

67th edition

 

Friday 1st July 2021, Ancient Theatre @ 9.00pm

Screening of the film BRONTE: chronicle of a massacre that history books have never told

by Florestano Vancini – ITA, 1972, 126′
(Restoration by the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia) ​

Free entrance ?

The film is in its original version with subtitles in English

 

 

The film, for economic reasons filmed in a village of the ex Yugoslavia), shows the bloody episodes that happened in Bronte (a Sicilian village at the foot of Mount Etna) in August 1860.

The work of Vancini did not get a large success of public but aroused a very lively discussion. Participated, between others, Angelo Solmi, Alberto Moravia, Mino Argentieri, Giuseppe Galasso and Paolo Mieli.

The film had a diffusion of some sort in the schools, as didactic material, use­ful to a better comprehension of the Risorgimento. Recently has been restored by the National Film Library with the unedited part of 14 minutes of scenes shot by Vancini and not previously assembled.

(Source: www.bronteinsieme.it)

 

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Taormina Film Fest

67th edition

 

Thursday 1st July, 2021, Ancient Theatre @ 9.00pm

Screening of the film THE ROSE MAKER / LA FINE FLEUR – FRA, 2020, 105′

Tickets € 10,90. – Buy on oooh.events

The film is in its original version with subtitles in English

 

The Rose Maker is a French comedy film, directed by Pierre Pinaud and released in 2020.

The film stars Catherine Frot as Eve Vernet, a formerly successful rose grower on the verge of bankruptcy, who hires three workers with no horticultural skills and must train them to help save her business. The cast also includes Fatsah Bouyahmed, Olivier Breitman, Olivia Côte, Vincent Dedienne, Melan Omerta and Marie Petiot.

 

 

 

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Taormina Film Fest

67th edition

 

Wednesday 30th June 2021, Ancient Theatre @ 9.00pm

Screening of the film PETER RABBIT 2: THE RUNAWAY – USA, 2021, 93′

Tickets € 10,90. – Buy on oooh.events

The film is in its original version with subtitles in English

 

Thomas and Bea are now married and living with Peter and his rabbit family. Bored of life in the garden, Peter goes to the big city, where he meets shady characters and ends up creating chaos for the whole family.

Director: Will Gluck
Stars: Rose Byrne, Domhnall Gleeson, David Oyelowo

(Source: imdb.com)

 

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Taormina Film Fest

67th edition

 

Tuesday 29th June 2021, Ancient Theatre @ 9.00pm

Screening of the film OCCHI BLU

Tickets € 10,90. – Buy on oooh.events

The film is in its original version with subtitles in English

 

Direction: Michela Cescon

Cast: Valeria Golino, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Ivano De Matteo, Matteo Olivetti

 

A lone robber, riding a maxi scooter, robs banks and jewelry shops of Rome, always managing to vanish into thin air. Local police commissioner asks for help a Parisian friend, called The French, a former commissioner famous for his psychological insight and for having solved dozens of impossible cases. All, except the one concerning the death of his daughter, for whose anniversary he returns to Rome every year.

 

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Taormina Film Fest

67th edition

 

Monday 28th June 2021, Ancient Theatre @ 9.00pm

Screening of the film LA TERRA DEI FIGLI

Tickets € 10,90. – Buy on oooh.events

The film is in its original version with subtitles in English

 

A film by CLAUDIO CUPELLINI
with Leon DE LA VALLÉE, Paolo PIEROBON, Maria ROVERAN, FabrizioFERRACANE, Maurizio DONADONI, Franco RAVERA
and with Valerio MASTANDREA and Valeria GOLINO

 

 

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Taormina Film Fest

67th edition

Taormina, from June 27th to July 3rd 2021

 

 

The official poster of the 67th edition of the Taormina Film Fest is a tribute to #Cinema and to Fred Zinnemann’s From Here to Eternity. A modern, bright and sunny reinterpretation of the iconic image of the 8 Oscar-winning film and its two great stars, Deborah Kerr e Burt Lancaster, tight in an unforgettable embrace.

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

 

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WHERE TO STAY

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Taormina Film Fest

67th edition

 

Sunday 27th June 2021, Ancient Theatre @ 9.00pm

Opening ceremony

Screening of the opening film: BOYS

Tickets € 10,90. – Buy on oooh.events

The film is in its original version with subtitles in English

 

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

 

BOYS 

by Davide Ferrario – ITA, 2020, 97′

a FILM BY DAVIDE FERRARIO with Neri Marcorè, Marco Paolini, Giovanni Storti and Giorgio Tirabassi.
Produced by Lionello Cerri and Cristiana Mainardi. A LUMIÈRE & CO. production with RAI CINEMA

 

 

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WHERE TO STAY

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Gala Lirico – Voci di Sicilia

by the “Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana”

Ancient Theatre, Sunday 26th June 2021 @9.30 pm

 

Simon Krečič

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)

 

 

 

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