The Tuscia Film Fest returns between Piazza San Lorenzo in Viterbo and the Sacro Bosco of Bomarzo
Appointments from 12 to 20 July. The announcement of the program and the launch of pre-sales for the event on 20 July will be on 28 June
VITERBO – From 12 to 20 July 2024The Italian cinema returns hero in the province of Viterbo with the twenty-first edition of Tuscia Film Fest directed by Enrico Magrelli.
Nine days of screenings, meetings and insights betweenthousand-seat arena in Piazza San Lorenzo (set up in front of the Palazzo dei Papi) in Viterbo and the Sacred Forest of Bomarzoto present some of the most significant Italian titles of the latest film season and meet directors, actors, screenwriters and professionals.
To inaugurate the exhibition Friday 12 July, the screening of A World Apartdirected by Riccardo Milani and starring Virginia Raffaele and Antonio Albanese.
Saturday 20 July, instead, event special closure in the Sacred Woods of Bomarzo which exceptionally will open its doors to the public in the evening, with the celebration – ten years after its release – of Every damn Christmas directed by Giacomo Ciarrapico, Mattia Torre and Luca Vendruscolo and the meeting with the directors and part of the cast of the film.
Second work of the trio and in part set in an imaginary Tuscia, Every Damned Christmas is a sentimental and satirical comedy on the theme of Christmas, experienced as a real nightmare: a holiday that stresses and tires people since the dawn of time.
In the during the day, Giacomo Ciarrapico and Luca Vendruscolo will receive the Tuscia Terra di Cinema award assigned to them and (in memory) to Mattia Torre. The recognition is awarded every year to personalities of Italian cinema who, for emotional reasons or thanks to their work, have enhanced the territory of the province of Viterbo.
The homage to three directors of Boris will then continue in September in the gardens of the Palazzo Comunale of Viterbo with a three-day event dedicated to themfrom 12 to 14 September, which will see the protagonists of the TV series meet and discuss with the public and the reading dedicated to Mattia Torre by his friend and colleague Valerio Aprea.
In the during the XXI edition there will be the presentation of the other two prizes in Piazza San Lorenzo in Viterbo annual instituted by the Tuscia Film Fest: the Pipolo Tuscia Cinema which goes to an emerging personality on the Italian cinema scene indicated by the Moccia family and the festival management and the The Cinema Professions Awardawarded by a jury made up of members of the artistic and organizational direction of the Tuscia Film Fest to a professional, chosen from the various categories, who has contributed to the creation and success of one of the Italian films included in the event’s programme.
The plan complete with screenings, expected guests and award winners will be presented and announced on Friday 28 June.
Starting from the same day they will be Pre-sales for the special event on Saturday 20 July in the Sacred Woods of Bomarzo are active and of the evenings in Piazza San Lorenzo in Viterbo on the event website.
The Tuscia Film Fest is organized by‘Cineclub del Genio Association of Viterbo in collaboration with the Italian Film Festival Berlin.
Between institutional and non-institutional partners of the event: MiC – General Directorate for Cinema and Audiovisual, Lazio Region, Municipality of Viterbo, Carivit Foundation, ANCE Viterbo, Confartigianato Imprese Viterbo, Sacro Bosco di Bomarzo, Tuscia Terra di Cinema Association.
