It will be a twentieth edition of the Coloring Rome Film Festival of Calabria that will be held from 15 to 26 October 2025 in the capital.
There are three productions on the calendar made in Calabria with the collaboration and support of the regional commission film.
Great expectations for Sandokan’s premiere, scheduled during the film festival; The international event series produced by Lux Vide, a company of the Fremantle group, in collaboration with Rai Fiction, with the support of Calabria Film Commission which will be next autumn on Rai1. The direction is entrusted to Jan Maria Michelini and Nicola Abbatangelo. Can Yaman plays Sandokan, Alanah Bloornel will be Marianna. With them and Westwick in the role of the fascinating antagonist Lord Brooke, while Alessandro Preziosi will give the iconic face Yanez de Gomera the face. Sandokan was also built in Calabria, in Lamezia Terme, in whose industrial area the English colony of Labuan was reconstructed in a backlot. Then to Le Castella, (Isola di Capo Rizzuto in the province of Crotone), Laghi La Vota Gizzeria (Catanzaro), Grotticelle (Ricadi) and Tropea (Vibo Valentia).
And, then, two documentaries of absolute prestige, where the author music is the protagonist. “Bruori Sas – Il Tempo delle Noci”, directed by Giacomo Triglia, with Dario Brunori, produced by Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Manetti Bros., Désirée Manetti, a Mompracem production, in collaboration with Calabria Film Commission, previewed in the Special Screening section. An intimate and profound journey in the creative and personal universe of Dario Brunori, through the sensitive and attentive gaze of the director Giacomo Triglia, with whom the singer -songwriter shares a long journey of artistic collaboration. Through the genesis of his latest album, the documentary tells a period marked by doubts, artistic crises and the desire to find a sense, inside and outside the music. At his side, the artistic producer Riccardo Sinigallia, companion of a journey made of dialogues, reflections, memories and transformations.
Light, then, on an icon of Italian music, with “Rino Gaetano, increasingly blue”, directed by Giorgio Verdelli, who also signs the screenplay with Luca Rea, the film is a Southwest Production production, Indigo Film and is produced by Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima, Carlotta Calori, Viola Prestieri, Silvia Fiorani, Giorgio Verdelli. Southwest executive manufacturer Silvia Fiorani, Rai producer Fabio Mancini, associated producer Indigo Film Stefano D’Avella, associated producer Gianvito Casadonte, associated producer Gianfranco Romano. A multiple hands of the great singer -songwriter born in Crotone, Calabria, written by Giorgio Verdelli and Luca Rea. Fifty years after that flash called “But the sky is increasingly blue”, the rough, lucid and brilliant voice of Rino Gaetano resonates even more alive, more necessary, more ours. And he does it in a film that is not a biography, but a journey. A daydream. Unpublished materials, private notebooks, memories kept as relics, interviews that seem to be radio confessions stolen from time: everything mixes to tell the incredible human and artistic parable of an artist capable of telling the discomfort and beauty of his era sharply. A mosaic of voices – From her sister Anna Gaetano to nephew Alessandro, from friends of all time as Riccardo Cocciante, Danilo Rea, Giovanni Tommaso, Shel Shapiro, Edoardo De Angelis, Ernesto Bassignano, to the spiritual heirs such as Bruori Sas, Lucio Corsi, Sergio Camriere, Giordana Angi – who reconstructs the man beyond the myth, the poet under the hat. There is Tommaso Labate, who on board a Fiat 128 brings us back to the places of Calabria of Rino, while the narrative – entrusted to the voice of Peppe Lanzetta, and to the intense stamps of Claudio Santamaria, Paolo Jannacci and Valeria Solarino – reveals a more intimate, universal, deeply of ours. The interview with Enzo Siciliano, future president of Rai. And, to complete the portrait, three special lenses: Carlo Massarini, Andrea Scanzi and Pietrangelo Buttafuoco.
