Having projected films onto building facades during lockdown and organised a floating theatre on Eur Lake in the summer, Alice nella Città is now headed to Rome’s Nuvola di Fuksas Convention Centre on the occasion of the festival’s 18th edition, unspooling in the capital between 15 – 25 October alongside the 15^th Rome Film Fest. For the very first time, the Convention Centre designed by the famous Roman architect will open its auditorium doors to the world of cinema, hosting part of the rich Alice nella Città programme which is dedicated, as always, to the younger generations, and will this year offer up 12 films in competition, 5 out of competition, 6 special screenings, a new “Sintonie” section organised in collaboration with Venice 77 and the Series line-up, not to mention 3 restored films and 26 shorts.

“This year, we’ve looked to overturn festival boundaries by moving beyond the labelling of films and the dogged quest for world premieres”, declared section directors Gianluca Giannelli and Fabia Bettini while introducing Sintonie, the new line-up created in collaboration with Venice Film Festival director Alberto Barbera. “Our focal point is kids: those shown in the films which were presented in Venice and which have now been re-selected for Alice nella Città, and those who were unable to enjoy the Venice screenings but will now be able to catch up via Alice”. The 6 proposed titles are: The Predators [+lee también:
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entrevista: Pietro Castellitto
ficha de la película] by Pietro Castellitto (rewarded for its screenplay), Nowhere Special [+lee también:
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entrevista: Uberto Pasolini
ficha de la película] by Uberto Pasolini, Listen [+lee también:
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entrevista: Ana Rocha de Sousa
ficha de la película] by Ana Rocha de Sousa, Night of the Kings [+lee también:
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entrevista: Philippe Lacôte
ficha de la película] by Philippe Lacôte, Mainstream by Gia Coppola and Sun Children by Majid Majidi.

Battling it out in the Young Adult Competition, meanwhile, are 11+1 films (the additional title is set to be announced at the Rome Film Fest press conference next Monday), which will be assessed by a jury comprising 15 youngsters selected from across the country. Standing out among these titles are several works focusing on bodily changes as a result of sport, such as Slalom [+lee también:
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entrevista: Charlène Favier
ficha de la película] by Charlène Favier, Tigers [+lee también:
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entrevista: Ronnie Sandahl
ficha de la película] by Ronnie Sandahl and Nadia, Butterfly by Pascal Plante; others home in on the sense of belonging to a community, such as Gagarin [+lee también:
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entrevista: Fanny Liatard y Jérémy Tro…
ficha de la película] by Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh, Punta Sacra [+lee también:
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entrevista: Francesca Mazzoleni
ficha de la película] by Francesca Mazzoleni and Ibrahim [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Samir Guesmi; there’s also the dark fairy tale Shadows [+lee también:
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entrevista: Carlo Lavagna
ficha de la película] by Carlo Lavagna and the animated film Calamity: A Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary [+lee también:
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entrevista: Henri Magalon
ficha de la película] by Rémi Chayé, without forgetting Bruno Merle’s Felicità [+lee también:
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ficha de la película]. Likewise worth a mention are Kajillionaire by Miranda July - “the craziest film presented in recent years” according to Giannelli - and Elizabeth Lo’s documentary Stray.

In terms of works screening Out of Competition, this year’s line-up is dedicated to the discovery and valorisation of young Italian cinema. The selected titles are: Movida [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Alessandro Padovani, Il mio corpo [+lee también:
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entrevista: Michele Pennetta
ficha de la película] by Michele Pennetta, Cuban Dancer [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Roberto Salinas, Climbing Iran [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Francesca Borghetti and Ordinary Justice [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Chiara Bellosi. Special Screenings include Luca della Grotta and Francesco Dafano’s cartoon Trash [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], about the recycling of waste; The Specials [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache; Forward [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], directed by Gilles de Maistre (sponsored by Unicef), and Alice Filippi’s debut work, the promising teen dramedy Sul più bello [+lee también:
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Finally, Aneil Karia’s British series Pure is set for a screening in the Series line-up, as is France’s Stalk by Simon Bouisson and Italy’s L’alligatore by Daniele Vicari and Emanuele Scaringi.