taormina, The names of the Italian and international guests arriving in Taormina for the sixty-ninth edition of the Taormina Film Festival, to be held tomorrow from 23 June to 1 July, have been officially announced. This year the Piazza IX will hold an extraordinary parterre parade on a blue carpet installed in April. The announced talent list currently includes Harrison Ford, Amber Heard, Khabi Lamm, Jacqueline Fernandez, Bella Thorne, Zoe Saldana, Teyana Taylor, John Landis, Willem Dafoe, Abel Ferrara, Adriana Lima, Mads Mikkelsen, Plácido Domingo, Phoebe Waller Bridges Are. Garrett Hedlund, Adria Arjona, Deborah Nadulman Landis, Eduardo Noriega, Tony Servillo, Francesco Sciana, Filippo Scicitano, Davide Minnella, Marco Perego, Edoardo Leo, Massimiliano Bruno, Caterina Guzzanti, Sara Baccarini, Anna Foglieta, Marco Bonini, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Rocco Papellio, Roberto Ando, Salvo Ficarra, Valentino Piccone, Fabio Rovazzi, Luca Calvani. New surprises will be announced on the festival’s official website and social channels during the week.
New for the year, under the auspices of Executive Director and Artistic Co-Director Barrett Wiseman and Artistic Co-Director M.Beatrice Venezi, Kermes’ total internal production is recalled, as well as some highlights of the festival’s programming. , during the press conference of the presentation this morning, in the Palazzo dei Congressi. At the meeting – which can also be reviewed on the official Facebook page of the Festival, together with the artistic directors, Superintendent of the Foundation, Ester Bonafede and the President of the Pavarotti Foundation, Nicoletta Mantovani, who tonight, with an extraordinary artistry, will present opera stars and “big The artists, made up of a group of talented young people promoted by the Foundation under the name of “Luciano”, together with the Taormina Art Festival Orchestra, will pay a great musical tribute to the great and unforgettable tenure on the stage of the ancient theatre. Directed by Maestro Beatrice Venezi.
The same theater setting will be in place for full cinema premieres each evening starting at 21:00, introduced by Barrett Wiseman and journalist Elvira Terranova.
Among the scheduled films and international guests: Into the Fire by Connor Allyn, presented by protagonist Amber Heard, by director and actors Yari Gugliucci, Isabella Benetton and Eduardo Noriega. Indiana Jones and the Quadrant of Destiny by James Mangold, featuring protagonists Harrison Ford (at the Zoom press conference tomorrow at 11am), Mads Mikkelsen and Phoebe Waller Bridges.
A Thousand and One by Avi Rockwell, presented by director and protagonist Teyana Ayler. In this context, a masterclass on film is expected in the company of the director.
Influential Shorts, an evening hosted by Bella Thorne, featuring top talents and influencers from the social world, this time by protagonists of film shorts – interpreted or directed. Names expected include Nina Dobrev, Khabi Lam, Jacqueline Fernandez, Amanda Cerny, Adriana Lima, Barbara Palvin Rita Aldridge, Miranda Haymon, Maram Taibah, Eva Vik, Leif Lieber and Yassen Zets Atour.
Billy’s Magic World by Francesco Cinquemani, presented by the director with William Baldwin, Valeria Marini and Alva Trill.
Divinity by Eddie Alcazar, a sci-fi thriller presented by the director himself and actors Karrueche Tran and Moises Arias.
The Absence of Eden, by Marco Perego, is presented by director and protagonist Zoe Saldana, Garret Hedlunde and Adria Arjona. The cinema will also feature meetings and masterclasses with master of the arts of costume design, John Landis and his wife, Deborah Nadulman Landis, and Willem Dafoe and Abel Ferrara, a long-standing artistic couple whose long collaboration will be celebrated at the screening. will be celebrated through All the films shot jointly.
Arriving Italian guests include Gianmarco Tognazzi, Ilenia Pastorelli, Giulia Gualano, Stefano Pesce and Giorgio Amato, cast and director of the film Lo sposo indiciso, who could no longer (or perhaps did not want to) leave the bathroom. , Francesco Sciana, Filippo Scicitano, Caterina Guzzanti and Davide Minnella, actors and directors of the film Bad Conscience; Edoardo Leo, Massimiliano Bruno, Sara Baccarini, Anna Foglieta, Marco Bonini, Fabrizio Bentivoglio and Rocco Papaleo for The Worst Days.
A special evening dedicated to the Silver Ribbon will award the entire cast of the film La Stranazza di Roberto Ando, who will take the stage of the Festival together with Tony Servillo, Salvo Ficarra, Valentino Piccone and Giulia Ando. In this context, the Nino Manfredi Award will also be presented, now in its tenth edition and entrusted by film journalists in agreement with the Manfredi family.
The 100th anniversary of Warner Bros. will also be celebrated at the Casa del Cinema through screenings of 25 landmark films from the iconic American production company.
In addition, every evening, on the stage of the ancient theatre, the Taormina Film Festival Awards will be presented, valuable prizes created by the Maison Damiani consisting of a plaque and a jewel.
The detailed program of the festival is on the website https://taorminafilmfestival.com/.
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