Rome tries with courage, it will be a 'sober' party

(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 05 - La Festa di Roma 15 / th edition of concoraggio is betting from 15 to 25 October on the event that aims to bring the public back to the hall. "We owe it to the public who love and love us and who have the right to participate in cultural life", underlined the president of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma Laura Delli Colli, also wishing a bit of luck to this edition which "in the pact with the public also pays utmost attention to security and a character of sobriety ". Luck will take a lot, while a Dpcm is waiting for hours which could enact a squeeze on indoor presences, which could further impact the organization. Director Antonio Monda imagined a schedule of previews and close encounters - from SteveMcQueen and Zadie Smith arriving from Great Britain, to the highly anticipated Francesco Totti who converses with PierfrancescoFavino, from the collective film Fuori era primavera edited by Gabriele Salvatores to the documentary on Pope Francis, to the series Sky Original by Matteo Rovere Romolus, to name just a few - "as if it were a normal party", but which instead has to deal with the new normality made up above all of "day byday", betting and daily risks. The festival will be more widespread (as well as the parallel Alice in the city), with the use of four rooms in the Savoy and in Europe (Fiume District) trying to bring cinema to the whole city, avoiding that it is concentrated in the area of Auditorium of the Parco della Musica. The Rome Festival with passion and Cypriot heart by calibrating the anti Covid measures not only with the press (as Venice did) but with that public for which it was born: "You will not be able to approach the entrance of the Auditorium - explains Francesca Via, general director of the Foundation - no one who does not have the right to access - ticket or accreditation both from the app or from the site - while before the gates the temperature will be measured to anyone. The red carpet will be isolated and to avoid crowds the upper auditorium will be accessed from an external entrance: 600 seats, always with registration via the appropriate ". After all, Totti from above will be almost at CurvaSud height. (HANDLE).