19th Rome Film Festivsl will take place from 16 to 27 October 2024 in the Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome. In this edition, a pre-opening film Megalopolis by Francis Ford Coppola, and an international competition featuring 18 titles hailing from 29 countries will be presented. Viggo Mortensen and Johnny Depp will be honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award.[1][2]
On 14 October 2024, Cinecittà Studios will host the Italian premiere of the 2024 film Megalopolis by the Italian-American director Francis Ford Coppola, with a screening introduced by the director himself. The event will be streamed live at the Auditorium Parco della Musica's Sala Petrassi as the pre-opening of the festival. During the evening a special tribute will be paid to the director.[3]
Festa del Cinema will organize a large retrospective of films, some in restored versions, that saw him collaborate with directors such as Federico Fellini, Vittorio De Sica, Ettore Scola, Pietro Germi; documentaries on the life and works of the great interpreter; exhibitions and displays set up between the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone and the Casa del Cinema; and a meeting with the actress Chiara Mastroianni - daughter of the actor and Catherine Deneuve - to whom the Festa will dedicate a special tribute. He will also be the protagonist of the official image of the nineteenth edition.[4]
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