After the successful inauguration of the Messina Film Festival – Cinema & Opera with the exhibition “Gerardo Sacco’s jewels for Franco Zeffirelli”, at the Accascina Regional Museum of Messina, in the presence of the great Calabrian goldsmith, the event, which has the artistic direction of Ninni Panzera, moves to the Sala Laudamo of the Teatro Vittorio Emanuele.
Scheduled for “International short film competition” and the section “Contemporary panorama” dedicated to international jobs with four films in national premiere: the French Carmen by Benjamin Millepied, Karaoke by Stéphane Ben, Ténor by Claude Zidi jr and the German Orphea in Love by Axel Ranisch, which will be present at the Festival.
Expected Tuesday 3 December at 6.30pm an eagerly awaited video conversation with Giuseppe Tornatore who will talk with the journalist Franco Cicero. Following the film “They’re all fine” with Marcello Mastroianni, in which the Sicilian director’s passion for opera is “revealed”.
2024 is the centenary of the death of Giacomo Puccini who will be remembered with “Puccini and the girl”, by the director Paolo Benvenuti That, Wednesday 4 December at 6.00pmwill meet the Festival audience.