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The 66th TaorminaFilmFest - produced and organized by Videobank SpA, courtesy of the Taormina Arte Sicilia Foundation - will debut on 11 July and, for eight days, will land mainly online on MYmovies while the 12 twelve titles of the main competitive category, destined for first works and second, they will be the protagonists of the screenings in the hall at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Taormina, with free admission and by reservation. The festival, directed by Leo Gullotta and with the selection curated by Francesco Calogero, promptly reinvented itself also in the face of a health emergency and, while respecting the protocols and precautionary measures, on July 19th it will turn the lights of the great cinema on again in that suggestive thousand-year-old natural setting that is the Ancient Theater, for the occasion again usable and used for entertainment events albeit in an unusual scenographic guise. The closing ceremony of the edition, with the participation of the Sicilian Symphony Orchestra, will feature the winners of the Competition, with the delivery of the traditional Charybdis and Polyphemus Masks awards as well as the Taormina Arte Awards for their career. And exceptionally it will be the artistic director Leo Gullotta to accompany the loyal audience of the event both on the occasion of the evening and in the path of a daily format, intended for the web and streaming, which will lead the viewer home on an ideal journey through documents videos, unreleased archive images and guest interventions, which will tell about yesterday's festival and today's innovative and partially virtual festival. The opening title of the sixty-sixth edition will therefore be the Italian preview of "Il était un petit navire" (There Was A Little Ship): Marion Hänsel's testament film is the homage that Taormina and its international film festival want return to the filmography of four decades of the Belgian producer, director and actress after the recent death. And to do so is a diary of memories of life and cinema - between Marseille, Antwerp, Paris, New York and Flanders - very close to the self-reflective films of Agnès Varda and Chantal Akerman. A filmic-biographical essay, sincere and poetic.
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Activities resume at the Taormina Film House of the Taormina Arte Sicilia Foundation. Opening on October 2nd of the photographic exhibition, curated by Vincenzo Aronica and promote...8/24/2020 - Eleonora Abbagnato will be the protagonist of LOVE, a new creation by Giuliano Peparini staged on 2 September at the Ancient Theater
Eleonora Abbagnato, the étoile of the Opéra de Paris and director of the Ball of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, appreciated for her vigorous technique and interpretat...8/21/2020 - Success at the Ancient Theatre for the show Al passo coi templi
Enthusiasm and success for "Al Passo con Templi", the show written and directed by Marco Savatteri and produced by "House of Musical" that took place on 19th August at dawn at th...8/20/2020 - The young Sicilian talents in the world award to Andrea Sarri
The Taormina Arte Sicilia Foundation focuses on the dance that has been missing from Taormina and its Theatre for some years with a magical evening on an initiative of the first da...8/17/2020 - On 27th August The Three Tenors with the guest stars Le Div4s
In spite of the delicate and difficult time, the Taormina Opera Stars Festival will also take place this year. The only event of the sixth edition, next August 27, at 21:30, at t...8/13/2020 - On 22nd August guest star Marianela Nunez
On 22nd August, the dance returns to the Ancient Theatre of Taormina with Les Italiens de l'Opéra de Paris. Extraordinary guest is the world-renowned artist Marianela Nunez....8/11/2020 - Edoardo Bennato on 13th August at the Ancient Theatre
In this strange 2020, Edoardo Bennato celebrates the 40th anniversary of the album I'm Just Songwriters. The concert in Taormina on August 13th after the live in Naples with Eugeni...8/11/2020 - Success for Gabriele Lavia in the double role of theatre director and actor
Double appointment for Gabriele Lavia after the long lockdown for this season of performances at the Teatro Antico organized by the Taormina Arte Sicilia Foundation as director in ...7/28/2020 - Medea by Euripides for the direction of Gabriele Lavia on 8th August at the Ancient Theatre
Thirty-six years have passed and Gabriele Lavia, artistic director of the prose section of Taormina Arte from 1984 to 1994, that this theatre therefore knows well in the double r...7/28/2020 - Gabriele Lavia on August 9th at the Ancient Theatre with The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
On the stage of the Ancient Theatre Gabriele Lavia was Richard III, Hamlet, Macbeth, dueled with Kleist in a theatrical interpretation and reduction passed to the history of Taormi...