Sixteen Films To Compete In Rome's First Annual Film Festival

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SIXTEEN FILMS TO COMPETE IN ROME'S FIRST ANNUAL FILM FESTIVAL

Agence France Presse -- English
October 11, 2006 Wednesday

Sixteen films are in competition in Rome's first annual film festival
opening Friday and running through October 21, and RomeFilmFest will
host the world premieres of several films:

- "A Casa Nostra" by Francesca Comencini (Italy)

- "Nightmare Detective" by Shinya Tsukamoto (Japan)

- "Salt Air" by Alessandro Angelini (Italy)

- "Times and Winds" by Reha Erdem (Turkey)

- "Cages" by Olivier Masset-Depasse (Belgium-France)

- "A Few Days Later" by Niki Karimi (Iran)

- "After This Our Exile" by Patrick Tam (Hong Kong)

- "The Legacy" by Temur and Gela Babluani (France-Georgia)

- "Playing the Victim" by Kirill Serebrennikov (Russia)

- "Gardens in Autumn" by Otar Iosseliani (France-Italy-Russia)

- "The Colonel" by Laurent Herbiet (France-Belgium)

- "Born and Raised" by Pablo Trapero (Argentina-Italy-Britain)

- "Primo Levi's Journey" by Davide Ferrario (Italy)

- "This Is England" by Shane Meadows (Britain)

- "Armenia" by Robert Guediguian (France-Armenia)

- "The Go Master" by Tian Zhuangzhuang (China)

The main world premieres:

- "Fur, An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus" by US director Steven
Shainberg, with Nicole Kidman

- "Napoleon and Me" by Italy's Paolo Virzi, with Daniel Auteuil and
Monica Bellucci

- "The Namesake" by India's Mira Nair, with Tabu and Irfan Khan

- "The Stone Council" by Guillaume Nicloux of France, with Monica
Bellucci and Catherine Deneuve

- "The Hoax" by Sweden's Lasse Hallstrom, with Richard Gere