2017 IN SHORT

A recap of the winners and guests of the festival’s first edition.

THE WINNERS

OUT OF COMPETITION

  • GLADIATOR
  • THE EQUALIZER
  • FARINELLI VOCE REGINA
  • 7 MINUTI by Michele Placido
  • the documentary TOMORROW by Cyrill Dion and Mélanie Laurent

Jury & Guests

Jury president:

David Franzoni, screenwriter and producer, Academy Award winner for Ridley Scott’s Gladiator.
Screenwriter of Amistad, directed by Steven Spielberg, and King Arthur, directed by Antoine Fuqua (2004).

  • The set designer Gianni Quaranta, Academy Award winner for best set design for A Room with a View by James Ivory, 1987. He also worked as set designer for other great films, such as 1900 by Bernardo Bertolucci, The Legend of the Holy Drinker by Ermanno Olmi.
  • The actor Marton Csokas, who starred in films such as Lord of the Rings, The Bourne Supremacy, The Equalizer.
  • The actress Valentina Lodovini, who starred in Benvenuti al Sud, The Right Distance and A Liberal Passion.
  • The journalist and writer Marta Perego.
  • Marta Gastini, who starred in The Rite with Anthony Hopkins. For this film she won the Nastro d’argento Award (2011) as Best Supporting Actress.
  • Giampiero Judica, who starred in Non Uccidere, Passeggeri Notturni and Boardwalk Empire.

The testimonial of the 2017 edition was the actress Alessandra Mastronardi. Main character of the Italian television series I Cesaroni, the film To Rome with Love by Woody Allen and Life by Anton Corbijn.