16a edizione | 26 / 30 marzo 2025 | Casa del Cinema, Roma
Tuesday, April 26th 2001, to mark the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl’s nuclear disaster, IrishFilmFesta and Legambiente organize a special screening of the short The Door, written and directed by Juanita Wilson.
2009 Academy Award nominee and winner of several festivals – IrishFilmFesta among them – The Door will be screened at the bookshop Rinascita, in via Savoia, Rome.
The short film jury, chaired by Italian producer Gianluca Arcopinto and formed by Franco Biciocchi (photographer) Stefano Coccia (film critic), Amal Kaoua (Second Secretary Embassy of Ireland) and Alessandro Maresca (film director) has awarded the prize for Best Short Film to “The Door” (Juanita Wilson, 2008).
The jury has also given two special mentions to:”Her Mother’s Daughters” (Oonagh Kearney, 2010) and “Paperman” (Richard Kelly, 2010)
Speaker: Andrea Binelli.
Carlo Cosolo, translator, dialogue adaptation and dubbing director, will attend the conference.
Friday 26th November at 6 pm., Andrea Binelli, lecturer in English and Translation at the University of Trent, will give a talk on Italian dubbing of Irish films.
Professor Binelli will illustrate how the Italian film industry, because it underrates Italian audiences, often omits important meaningful elements during the translation and adaptation work carried out prior to dubbing. He will also point out how, thanks to the omission of similar elements, the overall impact of a film can be irremediably weakened.
Entrance free.
John Mc Court’s “James Joyce and the Cinema. Roll Away the Reel World” deals with the twofold bond between Joyce’s writings and modern cinema. Mc Court lectures in English Literature at the University of Rome (Roma Tre); he is also the director of the Joyce School in Trieste.
His book will be presented on Thursday 25th November at 6 pm. The author will be talking about his new publication to Barry McCrea, the writer, Joycean scholar and lecturer in Comparative Literature at Yale University.
Entrance free.
For the first time this year, IrishFilmFesta will include a competitive section dedicated to short films.
Among the shorts selected, different in length and genre, there will be The Door, Academy Award nominee for the year 2010.
The short films will be judged by a jury chaired by Gianluca Arcopinto, producer, alongside the photographer Franco Biciocchi, film critic Stefano Coccia, Second Secretary of the Irish Embassy in Italy Amal Kaoua and short films director Alessandro Maresca.
The winner will be awarded during the final evening of the Festival, on Sunday the 28th of November.
Meeting about Film Co-production between Italy and Ireland
(Rome, Casa del Cinema – November 24, 2010 – 10:00 to 12:30 am)
to download the meeting calendar click here
Neil Jordan’s last film was presented for the worldwide premiere last year at the Toronto International Film Festival and at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. In Italy it has been released only on dvd, therefore the screening at the Irish Film Festa will be the first time and a unique occasion to see this movie on the big screen.
The story evolves around Syracuse, a fisherman living in the south-west of Ireland. He is a solitary man, separated from his wife and his young daughter Annie, who is confined to a wheelchair. However his life will change radically after meeting Ondine, a beautiful girl with mysterious origins, who has been caught in his fish net.
Starring Colin Farrell alongside the Polish singer (with Mexican descent) Alicja Bachleda – who embodies Ondine – and Stephen Rea.
The film’s official website:
http://www.ondinefilm.com/
The fourth edition of IrishFilmFesta will be held from 24th to 28th November 2010, always at the Casa del Cinema of Rome. The festival will be opened by a panel on Irish-Italian co-productions with the participation of experts from both countries.
From Friday 16th to Sunday 18th April, in Montefiascone (Viterbo) IrishFilmFesta presents four Irish films (original language with Italian subtitles).
Programme:
Fri 16th Apr – 8.45 PM: The Wind That Shakes the Barley (K. Loach, 2006)
Sat 17th Apr – 4.30 PM: Mickybo and Me (T. Loane, 2005); 8.45 PM: Garage (L.Abrahamson, 2007)
Sun 18th Apr – 8.45 PM: Isolation (B. O’Brien, 2005)
Introduction by Kay McCarthy and Susanna Pellis. Venue: Rianta – Argilla Theatre (via del Barone 13 / a – Montefiascone). Free entrance.
(Info: 340 5522152)
IrishFilmFesta will take part at the Irish Day organized by UPTER – Università Popolare di Roma – in collaboration with the Embassy of Ireland. During the event, screening of Breakfast on Pluto (Neil Jordan, 2006). Introduction by Susanna Pellis.
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Saturday 29th November, on the occasion of the screening of the Gaelic language film Kings (Tom Collins, 2007) Kay McCarthy will attend at Irish Film Festa. Irish born, Italian by adoption, for over twenty years now, Kay McCarthy has been bringing Irish traditional music and culture to Italy. Her repertoire ranges from traditional melodies to songs and instrumental tunes written by herself. She began performing in Rome in the seventies when the city’s mythical Folkstudio hosted her on a regular basis. In August 2000, Kay and the group were hosted by Lorient Interceltic Festival. Furthermore, Kay McCarthy is a teacher of both English and Gaelic language
Friday 27th November, on the occasion of the screening of Hunger (S. McQueen, 2008) Silvia Calamati, journalist and writer, will take part in Irish Film Festa to present her new book about IRA activist Bobby Sands, publishing next May by Castelvecchi. Silvia Calamati has concerned herself with the Irish question since 1982, she has been working as a free-lance journalist for Rai News 24 and for the Italian weekly magazine Avvenimenti, focusing on Ulster matters. She won the Tom Cox Award, she has translated One day in my life (Feltrinelli, 1996), the book written by Bobby Sands, and she published, one among so many, Qui Belfast. 20 anni di cronache dall’Irlanda di Bobby Sands e Pat Finucane (Edizioni Associate, 2008)