Bologna, August 29, 2023 – A little bit of Bologna and a piece of our region are looking forward to V Venice Film Festival which opens tomorrow. Starting from Modena (as well as Reggio Emilia and Campo Imperatore), where the film “Ferrari” was filmed (it will debut on August 31 and was supported by our regional film commission), the director Michael Mann, starring Adam Driver. tell about the deeds and fury of Drake. The director decided to build his entire feature film around a certain moment in the life and career of Enzo Ferrari: we live in 1957, the year of the last 1000 Miglia and the tragic accident caused by a Ferrari.
On September 2, another game is expected in the Classics section: Dario Argento Panic, Simone Scapfidi, the first biopic exploring the life and great works of the Italian thrill master. Co-produced by the production company Meclimone from Rimini and also filmed in Parma, this work is always supported by the Film Commission, which organizes a meeting with President Stefano Bonacchini at the Excelsior Hotel on the future Lido on August 31 at 16:15. : Cinema in Emilia-Romagna with Fabio Abanato, Morena Diazzi and Cineteca director Gian Luca Farinelli. As we continue down the red carpet to “our” cinema in Venice, here are two Bolognese films shot in Trentino.
The first is the return of Giorgio Rights. on the big screen with Ljubo, who he will present at the competition on September 7, with Franz Rogowski as the main character, as a nomadic street artist who was drafted into the Swiss army in 1939 to protect the national borders from the risk of a German invasion. Some time later, he learns that his wife died trying to prevent the gendarmes from taking away three small children, cut off from their families. Tomorrow, at the opening of the Giornate degli Autori, Antonio Pisu’s Nina dei Lupi debuts: in cinemas from August 31, it is produced by the Bolognese company Genoma Films Paolo Rossi Pisu: a dystopian fantasy thriller based on the novel of the same name by Alessandro Bertante, tells about a sudden solar storm that renders any electronic equipment unusable. On the same day, a newborn girl named Nina is found on a mountain near a small remote town.
In Venice, there is also a rising star of Italian cinema, i.e. Ile Yara Vianello, native Brazilians, sentimental education in the Apennines, in a high school in Pavan, the town of Francesco Guccini. The Bologna-based distribution house I Wonder is also on the Lido with 10 films, three of which are in competition: The Beast (La Be^te), Bertrand Bonello’s highly anticipated new work with Léa Seydoux and George Mackay, a novel inspired by The Beast in the Jungle Henry James, then “Woman from (Kobiet Z…)” by Malgorzata Szumowska and “Zar-Saezon” by Stefan Brize with Guillaume Canet and Alba Rohrwacher. There are two Italian productions in the Orizzonti competition, such as “El Paraiso” by Enrico Maria Artale and “Invelle” by the famous Marche animator Simone Massi, which makes its feature film debut with a poetic tale of the madness of war filtered through the eyes of childhood.