Rome Film Festival

Guests include Italian filmmakers Gianfranco Cabiddu and Tommaso Cavallini, actress Teresa Saponangelo and the band I Nomadi

Paolo Taviani and his brother Vittorio’s family commemorate the late master filmmaker Vittorio Taviani

For the third year in a row, Rome Film Fest symbolically breaks down the walls between city and penitentiary and returns to Rebibbia Prison. From October 24 to 26, inmates and the public alike can get their fill of a lineup of screenings and talks at the Auditorium of the Rebibbia Prison’s New Annex, thanks to a collaboration between Fondazione Cinema per Roma, Enrico Maria Salerno Historical Archives, and DAMS at Roma Tre University. The event is promoted by the Department of Penitentiary Administration and the warden of Rebibbia Prison. 

On Wednesday, October 24 at 4:30 pm, the program kicks off with a screening of La stoffa dei sogni by Gianfranco Cabiddu, with the director and actress Teresa Saponangelo in attendance. Prior to the screening, Cabiddu and actor Fabio Cavalli will take the stage for a talk; the two filmmakers collaborated on the 2005 production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, in the translation by playwright Eduardo de Filippo, starring actor-inmates who would go on to star in Caesar Must Die.

 On Thursday, October 25 at 4:30 pm, the screening of Trek Point by Tommaso Cavallini will see the director, producer Giordano Baffari and the cast on hand for the event at Rebibbia. Before the screening, the band I Nomadi, who scored the film, will perform tracks from the film and their own repertoire.

On Friday, October 26 at 4:30, the Taviani brothers’ film Caesar Must Die, winner of the Golden Bear at the 2012 Berlinale, will be screened at Rebibbia in the very Auditorium where the film with a cast of inmates was made. Along with the cast, Paolo Taviani and the family of his late brother Vittorio will be on hand for a tribute to the late master filmmaker.