program, guests and ticket prices

Everything is ready for Rome Film Festival 2023: From Wednesday 18 to Sunday 29 October 2023, the Auditorium Parco della Musica “Ennio Morricone” will host the 18th edition of the event, bringing together many other iconic places of the capital, including the Casa del Cinema, MAXXI and the Palladium Theatre. Great anticipation of return CinemaVillage and from Alice in the cityan autonomous and parallel section of the Rome Film Festival dedicated to youth, this year focusing mainly on women’s narratives.

28 countries are participating in the festival: competition films will also be shown indoors. some of the most important Roman cinemas, such as the Atlantic Cinema, the Ferrero Cinema Adriano and the Nuovo Aquila Cinema. Among the films awaiting Roman audiences, Chimera from the Oscar-nominated director stands out. Alice Rohrwacher, “Diabolik, who are you?” With Monica Bellucci, Valerio Mastrandrea AND Miriam Leonedocumentary tribute to the great Dario Argento and an exclusive preview of “Camorrista – series” from Giuseppe Tornatorefilmed at the same time as the Oscar-winning director’s film, but never aired.

THAT Tickets They can already be purchased in advance on the Rome Film Festival website, and will also be available for purchase on screening days, but only at certain physical box offices.

Rome Film Festival 2023 program

Twelve days of screenings, one day more than previous editions, aiming to follow other major international festivals and a jury of top-level professionals convened to evaluate films competing for multiple awards. awards and recognition: Best Film, Grand Jury Prize, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Monica Vitti Prize for Best Actress, Vittorio Gassman Prize for Best Actor, Special Jury Prize for a section including photography, editing or original soundtrack. Also scheduled to be presented are the Hugo Tognazzi Award for Best Comedy, the Best First Film Award, the Siae Cinema Award and, as every year, the Audience Award.

Against the backdrop of a film event CinemaVillage with pavilions and stands where the public can find street food, merchandising and a sponsorship area. Anticipation for the new edition of the magazine is also growing. Alice in the city, a stand-alone and parallel section of the Rome Film Festival dedicated to youth, this year focusing mainly on women’s narratives. The preview will feature the highly anticipated film To Leslie, Michael Morris’s first Oscar contender in 2023, shot in just eighteen days on a very low budget and supported for nominations by a social campaign promoted by actresses of the caliber of Kate Winslet, Demi Moore and Susan Sarandon.

To ensure you don’t miss any events or screenings, you can check out the full program of the Rome Film Festival 2023, which can be downloaded in PDF format from the event website.

How much do tickets cost and where to buy them?

Tickets for the Rome Film Festival and Alice in the City can be purchased in advance online, ranging from €6 to €29.

From 17 to 29 October, tickets will be available at the central ticket office of the Auditorium Parco della Musica “Ennio Morricone” at the following times: 17 October from 11:00 to 20:00, from 18 to 29 October from 11:00 to 22:30.

From 18 to 29 October, the Cinema Giulio Cesare box office is also open from 11:00 to 22:30 and the Casa del Cinema box office from 11:00 to 22:00: however, be careful, in both cases you can only buy tickets for scheduled screenings in the respective cinemas.

Guests of the Auditorium Parco della Musica and events in the city

On the occasion of the 18th Rome Film Festival, awards for excellence will be presented to two leading figures of the “seventh art”, Isabella Rossellini and Shigeru Umebayashi.

Isabella Rossellini, daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, performed masterpieces of the level of “Blue Velvet”, “Death Makes You Beautiful” and “Chimera” in competition at this festival. Shigeru Umebayashi is the author of some of the most famous soundtracks in the history of world cinema: among the many successful ones in the constant search for the right combination of Eastern and Western music are the soundtracks for the films “Forest of Flying Daggers”, “A Single Man” and “Hannibal Lecter – Origins of Evil”.

Side events are planned throughout Rome that will expand the already rich program of the Festival: screenings, exhibitions, meetings and conferences on the past, present and future of cinema, as well as a series of events dedicated to the social sector, which will be organized in the Rebibbia Nuovo complex, in the penitentiary Casal del Marmo Juvenile Institution and Latina Prison.