'Moonlight' to open Rome Film Festival

Director Barry Jenkin's "Moonlight" will open the upcoming 11th edition of Rome Film Festival.

The much-buzzed about film, which will have its European premiere in Rome, is already at the center of a great deal of awards chatter, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The new film from the "Medicine for Melancholy" director explores the life of a young black man growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami as he struggles to find his place in the world through topics of friends, family and love. 

The film stars Alex Hibbert, Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Jharrell Jermome, Ashton Sanders, Andre Holland and Janelle Monae. 

"Moonlight is an extraordinary film, at the same time powerful and tender, realistic and poetic. It is a great honour to open the Rome Film Fest with such a work of art," said Rome's artistic director Antonio Monda. 

"This is a film destined to go a long and successful way and which will stay in our hearts; it also confirms the great, genuine talent of Barry Jenkins." 

The film played Telluride and Toronto and will play in New York before being released in the US on October 21.

During the Rome Festival 2016 there will presented many films. Among the films shown will be "In war and in love" by Pif or the former Hyena and "Storks in mission" which is distributed by Warner Bros. 

Surely the most anticipated films of the season, which will premiere Monday, October 3rd at 21 in the Cinema Barberini in ​​Rome, is American Pastoral by Ewan McGregor. This movie is based on the novel American Pastoral by Philip Roth who is considered one of the masterpieces of contemporary American literature.

Among the famous actors who will take part at the Festival are Viggo Mortensen, the unforgettable Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings but also Tom Hanks that will always be remembered for his performance in Forrester Gump. And still there will be Oliver Stone, David Mamet and Meryl Streep. 

The Rome Film Festival is on from 13th to 26th October 2016.

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Join the International Festival of Pathological Films in Rome from 13 April 2016

The president of the Association of Pathological Theatre Dario D'Ambrosi is pleased to present the seventh edition of the International Festival of Pathological Films, which will be held at the headquarters of the Pathological Theatre (Via Cassia 472, Rome), from 13 to 17 April 2016. D 'Ambrosi is happy that this year coincides with the opening of the first university course in the world of "Integrated Theatre of Emotion", launched last 15th February 2016 in collaboration with the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

The Festival is not only a rich appointment of events, but also a competition for feature films and one short film in the world for its jury, entirely composed of children with disabilities, students at the Pathological Theatre, and headed by Paul Vasey, old member of the group. An initiative to promote young Italian cinema and foreign and synergies between the world of cinema and environments where you work on the mental and social hardship, convinced that this will contribute to an evolution of film language. 

Also this year many artists and personalities from the world of film and television who have chosen to join the event with live performances that will involve the children of Pathological Theatre. Among the participants of the previous editions include Simon and Garfunkel, Marco Giallini, Francesco Montanari, Claudio Santamaria, Riccardo Scamarcio, Maurizio Battista, Vinicio Marchioni, Sabrina Impacciatore, Marco Bocci, Alessandro Roja and Filippo Timi. For the fourth consecutive year, exceptional godmother will be Claudia Gerini.