Taormina Tango Festival

Taormina, June 16-19 2016

This year sees the first Taormina Tango Festival (16th to 19th June) in conjunction with the well-established Taormina Film Festival. Focusing on the Argentinian tango, dancers will take to the streets and squares of the town to entertain visitors whilst the film festival plays host to numerous international films.
The programme includes projections and literary cafés on history and origin of this world-wide known dance.

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T A O R M I N A   F I L M   F E S T

Mother’s Day

Taormina Greek Theatre, June 16th 2016 @ 10.00pm

Mother’s Day is a 2016 American romantic comedy film, directed by Garry Marshall, written by Tom Hines, Lily Hollander, Anya Kochoff-Romano and Matt Walker, and starring an ensemble cast, led by Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Julia Roberts and Jason Sudeikis. Filming began on August 18, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia. It was released in the United States on April 29, 2016 by Open Road Films.

Plot
As Mother’s Day draws close, a group of seemingly unconnected people come to terms with the relationships they have with their mothers. Sandy (Jennifer Aniston) is a divorced mother of two boys whose ex-husband has recently remarried a younger woman named Tina (Shay Mitchell). Miranda (Julia Roberts) is an accomplished writer who gave up her only child, Kristin (Britt Robertson), for adoption at birth. But as a grown-up Kristin prepares herself for marriage, she begins to contemplate the missing part in her life and is encouraged by her friend, Jesse (Kate Hudson), to go out and find her mother. Meanwhile, Jesse, who never sees her mother, is surprised by her parents when they come to visit and must come to terms with their failing relationship.

Trailer > http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4824302/

Tickets on boxol.it
Numbered seats: € 8,00
Non-numbered seats: € 5,00

The Angry Birds Movie

Greek Theatre, Tuesday 14th 2016 @10.00pm

Premiere at the Taormina Film Fest 2016

Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U2DKKqxHgE

TICKETS on boxol.it
Numbered Seats: € 8,00
Non-numbered seats: € 5,00

PLOT

At Bird Island, an island inhabited by flightless birds, reclusive, grumpy clown Red is sentenced to anger management class after his temper costs him a customer. One day, a boat docks at Bird Island, carrying pigs from Piggy Island led by Leonard. Claiming to be peaceful explorers bringing offerings of friendship, the pigs are accepted on the island.

More pigs arrive on Bird Island and seemingly adjust to society, but Red becomes suspicious of their motives. He recruits his classmates Chuck and Bomb to help him find Mighty Eagle, a giant bald eagle said to be the protector of the island, and the only bird that can fly. They find him on top of Bird Mountain. However, they discover that Mighty Eagle is largely in retirement, and hasn’t flown in years. Later, Red’s group sees the pigs planting explosives around the island while the birds are at a party. They realize the party was a ruse to steal the birds’ eggs. Red and Bomb attempt to retrieve the eggs, but the pigs escape and their explosives destroy the village. When the birds realize what happened, Red rallies them to let their anger loose and take back their eggs.

The birds construct a boat and sail to Piggy Island, where they find the pigs living in a walled city. Deducing the eggs are most likely in the central castle of the city, the birds attack the pigs by firing themselves into the pig village using a giant slingshot. Red, Chuck, and Bomb make it to the castle and find the eggs in a boiler room, where the pigs plan to cook and eat them. Mighty Eagle arrives, having had a change of heart, and carries the eggs out. As the birds escape, an egg falls out and makes its way back into the castle. Red returns the castle, retrieves the egg, and survives Piggy Island’s destruction, caused by the pigs’ reserve of explosives.

After the explosion, Red is hailed as a hero. He, Chuck, and Bomb are approached by Mighty Eagle, who claims that he wasn’t really lazy and made them lose faith in him to teach them to find faith in themselves. In a mid-credits sequence, it is revealed that all of the pigs have survived Piggy Island’s destruction, while Leonard is hatching a new plan to steal the eggs.

Finding Dory

An unforgettable journey she probably won’t remember

by Disney Pixar

Taormina Greek Theatre,, Friday June 10th @ 10.00pm

The official release date is June 17th but you can watch the premiere at the Taormina Film Fest 2016

Official Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JNLwlcPBPI

“Finding Dory” reunites Dory with friends Nemo and Marlin on a search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale?

TICKETS on boxol.it
Numbered Seats: € 15,00
Non-numbered seats: € 9,00

Duran Duran

Taormina Greek Theatre, Sunday June 5th 2016 at 9.30pm

The British new wave-synthpop band from Birmingham. The cult band of the 1980s in concert in their present formation with Simon Le Bon (lead vocals), Nick Rhodes (keyboards), John Taylor (bass, guitars) and Roger Tayler (drums).

The band is now is on the road in support of their 14th studio album, Paper Gods.

TICKETS  ticketone.it
Stalls (Parterre): € sold out
Gallery (central): € sold out
Gallery (lateral): € sold out
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 80,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 55,00

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