Rome Film Fest 16. L'Arminuta, Mediterráneo and the preview of Diabolik

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October 14, 2021

 Giuseppe Bonito's

is presented on Friday 15 October at 7 pm, at the sixteenth edition of the Rome Film Festival at the Sinopoli Hall of the Auditorium Parco della Musica.

In the film - scheduled in the Official Selection of the Festival, based on the bestselling novel by Donatella Di Pietrantonio, winner of the 2017 Campiello Prize - a thirteen-year-old girl is returned to the family she did not know she belonged to.

Suddenly she loses everything of her previous life: a comfortable home and the exclusive affection reserved for those who are an only child, being catapulted into a strange world.

"Thanks to the novel by Donatella Di Pietrantonio I met this thirteen-year-old girl whose name we will never know, but only the nickname, the Arminuta, which in the Abruzzo dialect means the return - explains the director - The film, as well as the novel, tells of a year of life of this little girl on the threshold of adolescence, a period that will mark her life forever, in which she will experience the pain and hardness but also the love, the sweetness and the sometimes ferocious beauty that reserve life ". 

Two other films are presented in the Official Selection of the Festival. At 7.30 pm, at the Sala Petrassi

by Marcel Barrena, from the true story of Òscar Camps, the founder of Open Arms.

In the fall of 2015, two Spanish lifeguards, Òscar and Gerard, struck by the heartbreaking photograph of a child drowned in the Mediterranean, go to the island of Lesbos, where they discover a shocking reality: every day thousands of people risk their lives trying to sail the sea ​​with precarious boats, to escape from the misery and wars that afflict their countries of origin.

But the most disconcerting thing is that no one is carrying out rescue activities. Together with Esther, Nico and the other members of their team, Òscar and Gerard will fight to do the work the authorities neglect and to bring the help they badly need to thousands of people.

At 10 pm (Sala Sinopoli),

by Rebecca Hall

is screened

.

In New York, at the end of the 1920s, while the African-American cultural movement called the Harlem Renaissance was established, two women of color, Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry, managed to pass themselves off as white.

One summer afternoon, the two, who had been childhood friends, meet by chance, and Irene, albeit with some reluctance, lets Clare into her house, who soon attracts the sympathies of her husband. the whole family and finally the entire social circle of Irene.

As the two women's lives become more and more closely intertwined, Irene realizes that Clare is wreaking havoc on her world, amidst obsessions, repression and lies.

At 5 pm, Marco and Antonio Manetti are the protagonists of a Close Encounter. Directors, screenwriters and film producers, the two brothers in 2017 received the David di Donatello for best film with Ammore and Malavita. During the meeting they will retrace their career and preview the first five minutes of their latest film 

, starring Luca Marinelli, Miriam Leone and Valerio Mastandrea.

At 6.30 pm at the MAXXI will be held the preview of 

 by Andrea Bettinetti, on the first producer to establish herself in the exclusively male world of Italian and European cinema at the end of the 1960s.

The documentary tells an undisputed icon of style and creativity, Oscar® winner for Investigation of a citizen above suspicion, in an intimate journey between Rome, Milan and Venice, enriched by precious interviews with his closest friends.