PESARO – The Festival will open its 60th edition in the large arena of Piazza del Popolo with Sergio Castellitto, with a tribute on the twentieth anniversary of one of his most successful films, Don’t move, the first appointment of the Cinema in Piazza section, possible thanks to CSC – Cineteca Nazionale, Cattleya and Medusa.
All ready, Friday 14 June, the 60th edition of the International New Cinema Exhibition with the contribution of the Ministry of Culture – General Directorate of Cinema and Audiovisual, of the Municipality of Pesaro and of the Marche Region: an edition that celebrates an important milestone in the year that sees Pesaro as a protagonist in Italy and in the world as Italian Capital of Culture 2024. The Festival directed by Pedro Armocida it was officially presented during the press conference in Pesaro, in the presence of the director himself, the organizational director Cristian Della Chiara, the President of the Pesaro Nuovo Cinema Foundation Daniele Vimini, partners and sponsors and the newly elected Mayor of the city Andrea Biancani.
He commented like this Andrea Biancani: «For me it is an exciting day and I am very happy to make my first public outing with the Mostra del Nuovo Cinema. It is a historic exhibition known nationally and internationally and is one of the city’s main initiatives and we must make it even stronger, better known and more participatory. We must strengthen what we have already achieved thanks to this wonderful initiative.”
Also agrees Daniele Vimini: «We are very excited for this special year of the Exhibition, which confirms itself to be an increasingly international festival, open to young people but at the same time sewn and linked to the city, with a beautiful atmosphere in all places of an event that is aimed at the public , but also to critics, cinephiles and film students.” He is equally proud Pedro Armocida: «I would like to thank Pesaro, for a festival director celebrating the sixtieth edition in the capital of culture is an important and prestigious “coincidence”. The DNA of the festival is new, it looks to the future, for example the international competition and the new VR section, but we cannot help but think of the past and remember Adriano Aprà, a spectator since the first Exhibition and Director in the Nineties. We dedicate this edition to him.”
Fabio Masini, Director of the G. Rossini Conservatory of Pesaro, also expressed great satisfaction with the upcoming event.
Finally, Luca Fabbri, communications manager of the main sponsor Marche Multiservizi, comments: «We renew this collaboration that has been going on for many years with the Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema because we believe in the value of culture and therefore this initiative to convey important messages as well as that of environmental sustainability and the circular economy.”
Also starting on Friday is the first of two special events on Italian cinema dedicated to Ficarra and Picone, with screenings at the Teatro Sperimentale of Nati tired, at 3.00 pm, and of La Matassa at 9.00 pm, in collaboration with the Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Cineteca Nazionale and thanks to Medusa Film and Tramp Ltd. The setting of the Teatro Sperimentale will host on Friday at 4.45 pm also the special screenings of CineMarche with Gli Elefanti by Antonio Maria Castaldo, in the presence of the director and the leaders of the National Fire Brigade and at 6.00 pm L’isola del Teatro by Eleonora Diana and Velia Papa, in the presence of Velia Papa. 17 space instead for the Eleanor Worthington Award, with the screening in the presence of the Art Director of the APEW—ODV Nunzia Invernizzi and Riccardo Bernini.
The unmissable event, strictly on 35mm film, La Vela Incantata – Cinema on the beach opens on Friday at 9.30pm, with the precious collaboration of the CSC Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, with Peccato che è una canaglia by Alessandro Blasetti in homage to the centenary of Marcello’s birth Mastroianni and to whom the evenings on the beach together with Walter Chiari are dedicated. The show continues over the weekend with the film We won! by Robert Adolf Stemmle, Saturday at 9.30pm, and Il bell’Antonio by Mauro Bolognini on Sunday 16th also at 9.30pm.
Saturday 15th begins with two high-profile meetings focusing on the state of the art of the film industry, at the Cinema Astra, organized by CNA Cinema and Audiovisivo Marche in collaboration with Fondazione Marche Cultura. We start at 10.00 with Cinema and the big screen, what future for cinemas with Pedro Armocida, Gianluca Curti, Francesco Gesualdi, Massimiliano Giometti, Silvia Ortolani, Simone Riccioni, followed by Marche Cinema, Ciak we shoot in the presence of Andrea Agostini, Gianluca Curti, Francesco Gesualdi, Claudio Salvi, Alessandro Tarabelli. The special Ficarra and Picone event continues in the afternoon at the Teatro Sperimentale with screenings at 4pm of Anche se è amore non si trova, at 5.45pm of Il 7 e l’8 by Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone and Giambattista Avellino and at 9pm on Santocielo by Francesco Amato.
Like every year, the Pesaro International Film Festival pays homage to films that are in the hearts of millions of spectators and which are celebrating an important anniversary: Saturday 15 June at 9.30 pm – preceded by the Vedomusica section with Mattino di luce – Subsonica, by Donato Sansone – Four Weddings and a Funeral by Mike Newell will be screened in Piazza del Popolo, an unexpected box office success in 1994 which consecrated Hugh Grant and which is still considered one of the best British comedies of all time: there could be no better location for a classic of female cinema on the evening in which Italy challenges Albania in the first match of the European Football Championships.
The courtyard of Palazzo Gradari comes alive from Saturday evening with the Novi Bioskop Sarajevo project, (within the collaborations with Pesaro, Italian Capital of Culture) and the concert with the Zambramora band, created in collaboration with the Lutva Association and Time for peace and development Marche . The day of Sunday 16th was very rich, starting from 10am at Palazzo Gradari with the presentation of the Carlo Delle Piane volume. The man I loved (ed. Martin Eden) by Anna Crispino, in the presence of the author, followed by the round table with Ficarra and Picone moderated by Pedro Armocida and Giulio Sangiorgio, editors of the monograph Ridere seriously. Cinema and the films of Ficarra and Picone (Ed. Marsilio). In the afternoon, from 4 pm at the Teatro Sperimentale, the films of the retrospective dedicated to the two Sicilian artists continue with Il primo Natale, and Let’s go to that country, at 5.45 pm; followed in the evening by special screenings of two films created in Pesaro with Mondo Altro by Viola Bartolini and Le belle esti by Mauro Santini, in the presence of the directors.
Great joy even for the little ones with the inauguration at 4pm at the Astra cinema of the Pesaro Film Festival Circus with the Animare la Mostra del Cinema di Pesaro workshop with Giulia Betti and at 6pm the screening of the film Les Inseparables by Jérèmie Degruson, in original language with oversound recited by the actor Andrea Fugaro, presented by the curator Giulietta Fara.
Sunday in the Square opens with Vedomusica, at 9.30 pm with La sola concrete reality – Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti by Carlo Fusani which precedes the Emergency Event, Charity Partner of the Exhibition, with the screening of Uomo in mare by Igor Borghi, in the presence of the representatives Michela Greco and Roberto Maccaroni.
Afterwards, among the most awaited guests and protagonists of this 60th edition, Ficarra and Picone will meet the public in the Piazza di Pesaro on Sunday 16th and will present the film they directed and starred in, L’ora legale.
To close a very rich day, in the suggestive courtyard of Palazzo Gradari, at midnight, Il Muro del Suono – dedicated to Zagor Camillas – a mix of cinema and notes, between live soundtracks and exclusive performances with Paolo Spaccamonti and Ramon Moro who provide soundtracks for Die Puppe by Ernst Lubitsch.
