Italy On Screen Today New York celebrates ten years of film festival and opens this special edition with the latest masterpiece by Oscar Paolo Sorrentino: Grace. Presented at the Robin Williams Theater of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation and accompanied by the extraordinary presence of Toni Servillo, the film, winner of the Pasinetti Prize awarded by Italian film journalists as best Italian film at the last Venice Film Festival, inaugurated the series of events dedicated to the Academy Awards Campaign. Under the artistic direction of Loredana Commonara, the project promotes contemporary Italian cinema, consolidating the experience gained over the years in support of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the Golden Globe Voters and a selected audience.
The series of appointments to promote and support the candidacy at the Academy Awards continues with two other Italian excellences. Familia, second of the talented director Francesco Costabile, candidate in the International Feature Film category. The screening will take place at the Bryant Park Hotel. The next day at the Quad Cinema will be the turn of Under the clouds of Gianfranco Rosi, the film awarded the Special Jury Award at the Venice Film Festival 2025 and running in the Documentary Feature category. Both films will be followed by Q&A sessions with directors Francesco Costabile and Gianfranco Rosi.
Two Italian successes followed by two other great events that will enrich the program of the film festival (5-9 December): Three Ciotole, the film directed by Isabel Coixet and taken from Michela Murgia’s novel, which is recording a homogeneous success in Italy. The screening will be held at the Film at Lincoln Center and will be followed by a conversation with director Coixet, with actress Sarita Choudhury, with the Editor of the legacy of Michela Murgia Alessandro Giammei of Yale University and university professor Stefano Albertini of New York University.
The Festival will also present other expected titles, including Silvio Soldini’s Le assaggiatrici, and confirms the first and only festival in New York to include TV series in its programming. Among the incoming titles, The Art of Joy of Valeria Golino and the Count of Montecristo of Billie August, two productions that are attracting international attention. To complete the program of the tenth edition, an event of great artistic and civil value: the celebration of the 25th anniversary of Marco Tullio Giordana, a film that marked indelible the panorama of Italian cinema and the civil conscience of several generations. An iconic moment will be the meeting at the end of the screening at the Italian House Zerilli Marimò of New York University, with actor Luigi Lo Cascio who will offer the New York public the opportunity to share this important anniversary, celebrating the legacy of the work and its intense and unforgettable interpretation in the role of Peppino Impastato. “Celebrating ten years of Italy On Screen Today in New York with such a rich and authoritative selection is for us reason of great pride. This special edition brings together some of the most significant talents of contemporary Italian cinema, confirming our commitment to promoting valuable works with members of the Academy and the international audience. We continue to believe in the power of cinema as a cultural instrument capable of telling, exciting and creating lasting bridges between Italy and the United States.” Says Loredana Commonara.
Italy on Screen Today New York – Film & TV Series Fest is made possible thanks to the contribution of the Ministry of Culture – Directorate General Cinema and Audiovisual, with the support of the Consulate General of Italy in New York, of the Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò – New York University, with the patronage of the Italian Institute of Culture in New York.
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