Gabriele Muccino will receive the Best Director Award for Fino alla fine and Alec Baldwin will be honored with the Filming Italy Achievement Award. The two will engage in an exclusive conversation at the DGA Theater during the opening night.
Marco Perego will present his Oscar-nominated short Dovecote, starring Zoe Saldana, who recently won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress and is nominated for the Academy Awards. Perego will receive the Creativity Award.
The festival’s opening film will be Fino alla fine by Gabriele Muccino, premiering in the U.S., followed by a special screening of Dovecote with Marco Perego and Zoe Saldana.
Film Screenings
A rich lineup includes:Parthenope (Paolo Sorrentino),Campo di battaglia (Gianni Amelio), C’è ancora domani (Paola Cortellesi), Una storia nera (Leonardo D’Agostini), Diva Futura (Pietro Castellitto), Gloria! (Margherita Vicario), Un altro Ferragosto (Paolo Virzì), Zeder (Pupi Avati).
Among the series, the event will also presents some RAI Fiction premieres: Stucky (Giuseppe Battiston), Don Matteo 14, and Mike (Claudio Gioè), SKY Miniseries: Piedone – Uno sbirro a Napoli (Salvatore Esposito) and documentaries like: Domenico Modugno: L’italiano che cambiò il mondo, Duse – The Greatest (Sonia Bergamasco), Pino Daniele: Nero a metà (Marco Spagnoli), The Genius of Gianni Versace (Salvatore Vincent de Paul Zannino).
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