The Moviemov_Italian Film Festival is an itinerant showcase that aims to build a platform for the cultural and commercial promotion of the new Italian cinema abroad, especially for the booming Asian market so rich of new opportunities.

After the big success of the past editions, the Moviemov_Italian Film Festival will be back in Manila for the fourth time from 23rd to 26th April 2019.

Created and directed by Goffredo Bettini and organized by Playtown Roma, the Moviemov is realized thanks to the MIBACT (Directorate-General for Cinema of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism) and SIAE (the Italian Society of Authors and Publishers), with the collaboration of the Italian Embassy in Philippines, the Philippine Italian Association, and the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP).

This year, the Festival will be especially focused on AUTHORS OF CINEMA OF REALITY, presenting at the Cinematheque Centre Manila a showcase of eight (8) of the most representative and awarded movies of the last cinema season accompanied and introduced by actors, directors, and film critics. Lorenzo Richelmy, who played Marco Polo in the Netflix TV series, will introduce the opening film Rainbow: A Private Affair by Paolo e Vittorio Taviani based on a novel by Beppe Fenoglio and premiered in Toronto in Masters section; Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino will present their Crater after the success in Venice at the International Film Critics' Week and the Special Jury Prize in Tokyo International Film Festival; Agostino Ferrente straight from the last Berlinale with his Selfie and Federica Sabatini now on Netflix’s Suburra 2 will present We'll Be Young and Beautiful that was selected in Venice Critic’s Week.

The Festival will also focus on the educational component that will include an encounter with the students about Italian and Philippines Cinema Now and a Masterclass by the film critic and journalist Mario Sesti about the Cinema of Bernardo Bertolucci, Oscar-winning director, screenwriter, and film producer, considered one of the world's leading Cinema Master.

This year's line up:

A Scene from Una Questione Privata (Rainbow: A Private Affair)

UNA QUESTIONE PRIVATA | RAINBOW: A PRIVATE AFFAIR (Opening by Invitation)

Italy/ France, 2017, 84’

Original language: Italian                     

Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani

Cast: Luca Marinelli, Lorenzo Richelmy, Valentina Bellè, Francesca Agostini, Jacopo Olmo Antinori

A Scene from Il Figlio, Manuel (Manuel)

IL FIGLIO, MANUEL | MANUEL

Italy, 2017, 97’

Original language: Italian

Director: Dario Albertini

Cast: Andrea Lattanzi, Francesca Antonelli, Renato Scarpa, Giulia Elettra Gorietti, Raffaella Rea

SAREMO GIOVANI E BELLISSIMI | WE'LL BE YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL

Italy, 2018, 92’

Original language: Italian

Director: Letizia Lamartire

Cast: Barbora Bobulova, Alessandro Piavani, Massimiliano Gallo, Federica Sabatini, Elisabetta De Vito

A Scene from C'E' Tempo

C'E' TEMPO

Italy/France, 2019, 107’

Original language: Italian

Director: Walter Veltroni

Cast: Stefano Fresi, Giovanni Fuoco, Simona Molinari, Francesca Zezza, Jean-Pierre Léaud

A Scene from Il Cratere (Crater)

IL CRATERE | CRATER

Italy, 2017, 94’

Original language: Italian

Directors: Silvia Luzi, Luca Bellino

Cast: Sharon Caroccia, Rosario Caroccia, Tina Amariutei, Assunta Arcella, Imma Benvenuto

A Scene from La Paranza Dei Bambini (Piranhas)

LA PARANZA DEI BAMBINI | PIRANHAS 

Italy, 2019, 105’

Original language: Italian

Director: Claudio Giovannesi

Cast: Francesco Di Napoli, Artem Tkachuk, Alfredo Turitto, Viviana Aprea, Valentina Vannino

A Scene from Selfie

SELFIE

Italy, France 2019, 76’

Original language: Italian

Director: Agostino Ferrente

A Scene from Troppa Grazia (Lucia's Grace)

TROPPA GRAZIA | LUCIA'S GRACE

Italy/Greece/Spain, 2018, 110’

Original language: Italian

Director: Gianni Zanasi

Cast: Alba Rohrwacher, Elio Germano, Giuseppe Battiston, Hadas Yaron, Carlotta Natoli

A Scene from The Dreamers

The Moviemov Manila will also pay tribute to a Master of the Italian Cinema with the screening of THE DREAMERS by Bernardo Bertolucci.

Italy/UK/France, 2003, 130’

Original language: Italian

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast: Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel, Eva Green, Robin Renucci, Anna Chancellor.

All the screenings will be Free Entrance and in original language with English subtitles. 

The Italian Film Festival delegation will be composed by directors (Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino for Crater, Agostino Ferrente for Selfie), actors (Lorenzo Richelmy for Rainbow: A Private Affair, Federica Sabatini for We'll Be Young and Beautiful), film critic (Mario Sesti), and film producer (Daniele Orazi). They will introduce the films, participate at encounters with the audience and the students with an educational component and with Philippines filmmakers.