International Rome Film Fest is a film festival that takes place in Rome during the month of October. The name in Italian is Festa del Cinema di Roma . From 2022, the festival was officially recognized as a competitive festival by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations . The 17th edition of the festival, from which it became competitive festival, took place from 13 to 23 October 2022. Whereas the 18th edition of the festival took place from 18 to 29 October 2023.
6-801: The 19th edition of the festival took place from 16 to 27 October 2024 in the Auditorium Parco della Musica . The Rome Film Festival official program is divided into several sections: A selection of feature films, with priority given to world premieres. At the end of each screening, the audience votes for the People's Choice Award | Cinema d'Oggi. Feature films that are world premieres, international or European premieres. Feature films from various genres that are world, international or European premieres, with priority given to world premieres. World premieres highlighting new trends in Italian cinema. At
12-804: A park setting. It was designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano . Jürgen Reinhold of Müller-BBM was in charge of acoustics for the halls; Franco Zagari was landscape architect for the outdoor spaces. Parco della Musica lies with the Foro Italico in the north area of Rome's ancient center, and is home to most of the facilities of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia . The halls are: Sala Santa Cecilia , with about 2800 seats; Sala Sinopoli , in memory of conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli , seating about 1200 people; and Sala Petrassi , in memory of Goffredo Petrassi , with 700 seats. Structurally separated for sound-proofing, they are nonetheless joined at
18-647: Is given to its Italian distributor, or, if no Italian distributor buys it within six months, to its international seller. The Rome Film Festival is produced by the Cinema per Roma Foundation, whose president is Laura Delli Colli . The General Manager is Francesca Via. The Artistic Director of the Festival is Antonio Monda. Parco della Musica Auditorium Parco della Musica is a public music complex in Rome , Italy, with three concert halls and an outdoor theater in
24-453: The base by a continuous lobby. Their outer architectural form has led to nicknames such as “the blobs,” “the beetles,” “the turtles” and “the computer mouses”. ) The outdoor theater, called the Cavea , recalls ancient Greek or Roman performance spaces and is fan-shaped around a central piazza . During construction, excavations uncovered the foundations of a villa and an oil-press dating from
30-623: The end of each screening, the audience votes for the People's Choice Award | Cinema Italia (Fiction) and the People's Choice Award | Cinema Italia (Documentary). Devoted to children films, this sections has two competitive subsections, one for over-12 films and the other under-12. The Rome Film Festival award is a silver statuette shaped after the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius statue, placed in Michelangelo 's Campidoglio Square . The winning film's prize money
36-439: The sixth century BC. Renzo Piano then adjusted his design scheme to accommodate the archaeological remains and included a small museum to house artifacts discovered, delaying the project's completion by a year. Parco della Musica was inaugurated on 21 December 2002. Within a few years it became Europe's most-visited music facility. In 2014, it had over two million visitors, making it the second-most-visited cultural music venue in
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