Rome Film Festival reveals 'slimmer' 2014 line-up

The ninth Rome Film Festival (Oct 16-25) has revealed a diverse line-up including the Italian premieres for potential awards contenders including David Fincher’s Gone Girl. the world premiere of Takashi Miike’s As the Gods Will and Burhan Qurbani’s We are Young, We are Strong and European premiere of Oren Moverman’s Time Out of Mind, Toronto hit Still Alice and Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet.

This year for the first time the award-winners in each section of the programme will be decided by the audience on the basis of votes cast after the screenings.

Each section has changed name and focus for 2014 and are all competitive, resulting in the festival’s structure being “slimmer’.

Italian comedies Soap Opera and Andiamo a Quel Paese bookend the line-up.

Full line-up

CINEMA D’OGGI

World premiere

•   ANGELY REVOLUCII / ANGELS OF REVOLUTION by Aleksey Fedorcenko, Russia, 2014, 105’

Cast: Darya Ekamasova, Oleg Yagodin, Pavel Basov, Georgy Iobadze, Konstantin Balakirev, Alexey Solonchov

World premiere

•   BIAGIO by Pasquale Scimeca, Italy, 2014, 90’

Cast: Marcello Mazzarella, Vincenzo Albanese, Renato Lenzi, Omar Noto, Doriana La Fauci, Silvia Francese

European premiere

•   DÓLARES DE ARENA / SAND DOLLARS by Laura Amelia Guzman Conde, Israel Cardenas, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Mexico, 2014, 80’

Cast: Geraldine Chaplin, Yanet Mojica, Ricardo Ariel Toribio

World premiere

•   LA FORESTA DI GHIACCIO by Claudio Noce, Italy, 2014, 99’

Cast: Emir Kusturica, Ksenia Rappoport, Adriano Giannini, Domenico Diele

European premiere – Debut film

•   ITAR EL-LAYL / THE NARROW FRAME OF MIDNIGHT by Tala Hadid, United Kingdom, France, Morocco, 2014, 93’
Cast: Khalid Abdalla, Marie-Josée Croze, Fadwa Boujouane, Hocine Choutri, Majdouline Idrissi, Zahra Hindi

World premiere

•   LUCIFER by Gust Van den Berghe, Belgium, Mexico, 2014, 110’
Cast: Gabino Rodriguez, Norma Pablo, Toral Acosta, Jerónimo Soto Bravo, Sergio Lazaro Cortéz

World premiere

•   DIE LÜGEN DER SIEGER / THE LIES OF THE VICTORS by Christoph Hochhäusler, Germany, 2014, 112’

Cast: Florian David Fitz, Lilith Stangenberg, Horst Kotterba, Ursina Lardi, Arved Birnbaum, Jakob Diehl, Jean-Paul Cornart

European premiere

•   LULU by Luis Ortega, Argentina, 2014, 84’

Cast: Ailín Salas, Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Daniel Melingo, Miguel Angel Castillo

European premiere

•   OS MAIAS – (ALGUNS) EPISÓDIOS DA VIDA ROMÂNTICA / THE MAIAS - STORY OF A PORTUGUESE FAMILY by João Botelho, Portugal, 2014, 135’
Cast: Graciano Dias, Maria Flor, Pedro Inês, Hugo Amaro, João Perry, Maria João Pinho, Adriano Luz, Marcello Urgeghe

International premiere – Debut film

•   MAURO by Hernán Rosselli, Argentina, 2014, 80’

Cast: Mauro Martinez, Juliana Risso, Victoria Bustamante, Jose Pablo Suarez, Pablo Ramos, Patricia Fouret, Ricardo Ruiz

World premiere

•   I MILIONARI by Alessandro Piva, Italy, 2014, 104’

Cast: Francesco Scianna, Valentina Lodovini, Francesco Di Leva, Salvatore Striano, Carmine Recano, Gianfranco Gallo

International premiere

•   NN by Héctor Gálvez, Peru, France, Germany, 2014, 95’

Cast: Paul Vega, Isabel Gaona, Antonieta Pari

European premiere – Debut film

•   OBRA by Gregorio Graziosi, Brazil, 2014, 80’

Cast: Irandhir Santos, Julio Andrade, Lola Peploe, Marku Ribas, Luciana Inês Domschke, Sabrina Greve, Christiana Ubach, Marisol Ribeiro, Turíbio Ruiz, Helena Albergaria, Vinicius Zinn, Fernando Coimbra, Donizete Mazonas, Ligia Franchini, Ravel Andrade

World premiere – Debut film

•   SHIER GONGMIN / 12 CITIZENS by Xu Ang, China, 2014, 108’
Cast: He Bing, Han Tongsheng, Mi Tiezeng, Li Guangfu, Zhao Chunyang, Wang Gang, Zhang Yongqiang, Ban Zan, Qian Bo, Liu Hui, Lei Jia

European premiere

•   TIME OUT OF MIND by Oren Moverman, USA, 2014, 117’

Cast: Richard Gere, Kyra Sedgwick, Steve Buscemi, Jena Malone, Ben Vereen, Danielle Brooks, Abigail Savage, Yul Vazquez, Jeremy Strong, Michael Kenneth Williams, Yul Vazquez, Coleman Domingo, Geraldine Hughes

World premiere

•   WIR SIND JUNG. WIR SIND STARK. / WE ARE YOUNG. WE ARE STRONG. by Burhan Qurbani, Germany, 2014, 123’

Cast: Devid Striesow, Jonas Nay, Trang Le Hong, Joel Basman, Saskia Rosendahl, Thorsten Merten, Paul Gäbler, David Schütter, Jakob Bieber, Gro Swantje Kolhof, Mai Duong Kieu, Aaron Le, Larissa Füchs, Axel Pape

NON COMPETITIVE SELECTION

International premiere - In collaboration with WIRED NEXT CINEMA powered by Mazda

·JÁ VISTO JAMAIS VISTOby Andrea Tonacci, Brazil, 2013, 50’

World premiere - In collaboration with WIRED NEXT CINEMA powered by Mazda

·RAGAZZI by Raul Perrone, Argentina, 2014, 80’

World premiere - In collaboration with WIRED NEXT CINEMA powered by Mazda

· ATO, ATALHO E VENTO / WAY ACT AND THE WIND by Marcelo Masagão, Brazil, 2014, 72’

GALA

World premiere

•   ANDIAMO A QUEL PAESE by Salvatore Ficarra and Valentino Picone, Italy, 2014, 90’

Cast: Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone, Tiziana Lodato, Lily Tirinnanzi, Fatima Trotta, Francesco Paolantoni, Nino Frassica

European premiere – In collaboration with Alice nella città

•   BLACK AND WHITE by Mike Binder, USA, 2014, 121’

Cast: Kevin Costner, Octavia Spencer, Anthony Mackie, Andre Holland, Bill Burr, Mpho Koaho, Gillian Jacobs, Jennifer Ehle, Jillian Estell

World premiere

•   BUONI A NULLA by Gianni Di Gregorio, Italy, 2014, 87’

Cast: Gianni Di Gregorio, Marco Marzocca, Valentina Lodovini, Daniela Giordano, Gianfelice Imparato, Marco Messeri, Camilla Filippi, and with the participation of Anna Bonaiuto

Italian premiere

•   EDEN by Mia Hansen-Løve, France, 2014, 131’

Cast: Felix De Givry, Pauline Etienne, Vincent Macaigne, Greta Gerwig, Golshifteh Farahani, Laura Smet, Vincent Lacoste

Italian premiere - Debut film

•   ESCOBAR: PARADISE LOST by Andrea Di Stefano, France, Spain, Belgium, 2014, 120’

Cast: Benicio del Toro, Josh Hutcherson, Claudia Traisac

World premiere

•   GIULIO CESARE – COMPAGNI DI SCUOLA by Antonello Sarno, Italy, 2014, 87’

Italian premiere

•   GONE GIRL by David Fincher, USA, 2014, 145’

Cast: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry’s, Carrie Coon, Kim Dickens

World premiere

•   KAMISAMA NO IUTOORI / AS THE GODS WILL by Takashi Miike, Japan, 2014, 100’

Cast: Sota Fukushi, Hirona Yamazaki, Shota Sometani, Mio Yuki, Nao Omori, Lily Franky

Ryunosuke Kamiki

European premiere – In collaboration with Alice nella città

•   KAHLIL GIBRAN’S THE PROPHET by Roger Allers, Gaëtan & Paul Brizzi, Tomm Moore, Nina Paley, Bill Plympton, Joann Sfar, Michal Socha, Joan C. Gratz & Mohammed Saeed Harib, Canada, France, Lebanon, Qatar, USA, 2014, 85’

Voci di: Liam Neeson, Salma Hayek-Pinault, John Krasinski, Frank Langella, Alfred Molina, John Rhys-Davies, Quvenzhané Wallis

Italian premiere

•   THE KNICK by Steven Soderbergh, USA, 2014, ten episodes (60’)

Cast: Clive Owen, André Holland, Juliet Rylance, Eve Hewson, Michael Angarano

International premiere

•   LOVE, ROSIE by Christian Ditter, United Kingdom, Germany, 2014, 102’

Cast: Lily Collins, Sam Claflin, Christian Cooke, Tamsin Egerton, Suki Waterhouse, Jamie Beamish, Jaime Winstone

Italian premiere

•   PHOENIX by Christian Petzold, Germany, 2014, 98’

Cast: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf

Italian premiere - Debut film

•   SOUL BOYS OF THE WESTERN WORLD by George Hencken, United Kingdom, 2014, 112’

Cast: Tony Hadley, John Keeble, Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Steve Norman

World premiere

•   SOAP OPERA by Alessandro Genovesi, Italy, 2014, 87’

Cast: Fabio De Luigi, Cristiana Capotondi, Ricky Memphis, Elisa Sednaoui, Chiara Francini, Ale and Franz, Diego Abatantuono

European premiere

•   STILL ALICE by Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland, USA, 2014, 99’

Cast: Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, Hunter Parrish

European premiere

•   TRASH by Stephen Daldry, United Kingdom, 2014, 112’

Cast: Martin Sheen, Rooney Mara, Wagner Moura, Selton Mello

World premiere

•   TRE TOCCHI by Marco Risi, Italy, 2013, 100’

Cast: Massimiliano Benvenuto, Leandro Amato, Emiliano Ragno, Vincenzo De Michele, Antonio Folletto, Gilles Rocca, and with Matteo Branciamore, Francesca Inaudi, Jonis Bascir, Luca Argentero, Marco Giallini, Claudio Santamaria, Paolo Sorrentino, Maurizio Mattioli

MONDO GENERE

Italian premiere - Debut film

•   A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT by Ana Lily Amirpour, USA, 2014, 99’

Cast: Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Dominic Rains, Marshall Manesh, Mozhan Marnó, Milad Eghbali, Rome Shandaloo, Reza Sixo Safai

Italian premiere

•   HAIDER by Vishal Bhardwaj, India, 2014, 159’
Cast: Shahid Kapur, Shraddha Kapoor, Tabu, Kay Kay Menon, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Narendra Jha, Lalit Parimoo, Ashish Vidyarthi, Aamir Bashir, Sumit Kaul, Rajat Bhagat, Irrfan Khan

Italian premiere - Debut film

•   NIGHTCRAWLER by Dan Gilroy, USA, 2014, 119’

Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed, Bill Paxton

International premiere

•   QUANDO EU ERA VIVO / WHEN I WAS ALIVE by Marco Dutra, Brazil, 2014, 108’

Cast: Antonio Fagundes, Marat Descartes, Sandy Leah

International premiere

•   LA PROCHAINE FOIS JE VISERAI LE COEUR / NEXT TIME I’LL AIM FOR THE HEART by Cédric Anger, France, 2014, 111’

Cast: Guillaume Canet, Ana Girardot, Arnaud Henriet, Douglas Attal

European premiere

•   STONEHEARST ASYLUM by Brad Anderson, USA, 2014, 109’

Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Brendan Gleeson, David Thewlis, Jason Flemyng, Christopher Fulford, Sophie Kennedy-Clark, Sinead Cusack, Edmund Kingsley

            Italian premiere

•   TUSK by Kevin Smith, USA, 2014, 102’

Cast: Justin Long, Haley Joel Osment, Genesis Rodriguez, Michael Parks

PROSPETTIVE ITALIA

World premiere

•   FINO A QUI TUTTO BENE by Roan Johnson, Italy, 2014, 80’

Cast: Alessio Vassallo, Paolo Cioni, Silvia D’Amico, Guglielmo Favilla, Melissa Anna Bartolini, Isabella Ragonese

World premiere – Debut film

•   INDEX ZERO by Lorenzo Sportiello, Italy, 2014, 82’

Cast: Simon Merrells, Ana Ularu, Antonia Liskova, Velislav Pavlov

World premiere – Debut film

•   LAST SUMMER by Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli, Italy, 2014, 94’

Cast: Rinko Kikuchi, Yorick Van Wageningen, Lucy Griffiths, Laura Sofia Bach, Daniel Ball, Ken Brady

World premiere - Documentary

•   DUE VOLTE DELTA by Elisabetta Sgarbi, Italy, 2014, 144’

World premiere - Documentary

•   LARGO BARACCHE by Gaetano Di Vaio, Italy, 2014, 70’

World premiere - Documentary

•   LOOKING FOR KADIJA by Francesco G. Raganato, Italy, 2014, 60’

World premiere - Documentary

•   MENO MALE È LUNEDÌ by Filippo Vendemmiati, Italy, 2014, 80’

World premiere – Debut film - Documentary

•   ROMA TERMINI by Bartolomeo Pampaloni, Italy, France, 2014, 79’

EVENTS

           World premiere – Marc’aurelio Lifetime Achievement Award to Walter Salles

•   JIA ZHANGKE, UN GARS DE FENYANG by Walter Salles, Brazil, France, 2014, 102’      

World premiere - Jia Zhangke presenta

CHEN JIALING by Tian Ye, Gu Yugao, China, 2014, 65’ 

World premiere

•   27 APRILE 2014 – RACCONTO DI UN EVENTO by Luca Viotto, Italy, 2014, 50’

Italian premiere - In collaboration with Alice nella città

•   IL MIO AMICO NANUK / MIDNIGHT SUN by Brando Quilici, Roger Spottiswoode, Italy, Canada, USA, 2014, 98’

Cast: Dakota Goyo, Goran Visnjic, Bridget Moynahan

Italian premiere

•   A MOST WANTED MAN by Anton Corbijn, USA, 2014, 121’

Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Willem Dafoe, Daniel Brühl, Robin Wright, Rachel McAdams, Grigoriy Dobrygin

World premiere

•   MY ITALIAN SECRET  / THE FORGOTTEN HEROES by Oren Jacoby, USA, 2014, 92’

World premiere

•   NE HO FATTE DI TUTTI I COLORI by Marco Spagnoli, Italy, 2014, 70’

World premiere

•   ORE 12 by Toni D’Angelo, Italy, 2014, 16’

Cast: Laura De Rosa, Vincenzo Messina, Valentina Vacca, Conni Celotto, Carmine Paternoster, Salvatore Striano

World premiere

•   L’OROLOGIO DI MONACO by Mauro Caputo, Italy, 2014, 62’

World premiere

•   A ROSE REBORN by Park Chan-Wook, Italy, 2014, 19’

Cast: Jack Huston, Daniel Wu

World premiere

VIAGGIO NELL’ANIMO DEI FIGLI DELLA SHOA by Beppe Tufarulo, Italy, 2014, 60’