(ANSA) - ROME, JULY 26 - The hidden child by Roberto Andòcon Silvio Orlando music teacher in an old dilapidated Neapolitan building is the closing film, presented FuoriConcorso, of Venice 78 (1-11 September). In addition to the 5 Italian titles competing for the Golden Lion signed by Sorrentino, Martone, D'Innocenzo, Frammartino, Mainetti, there are many other Italian works selected and announced today by the director Alberto Barbera. Also in the Out of Competition are Leonardo Di Costanzo's Ariaferma with Toni Servillo head of the prison guards of a retired penitentiary and Silvio Orlando inmate and Stefano Mordinicon's Catholic school, among others, Benedetta Porcaroli, Valeria Golino, Riccardo Scamarcio, Jasmine Trinca , to evoke one of the cases of Italy in the 70s, the Circeo crime.
In the non-fiction Out of Competition, that is, among documentaries, a lot of music: DeAndrè # DeAndrè. Story of an employee of RobertoLena, Ezio Bosso Things remain by Giorgio Verdelli and then Django & Django by Luca Rea in which Quentin Tarantin recounts his passion for Sergio Corbucci and the western spaghetti, while Viaggio nel crepuscolo is a documentary by Augusto Contento that starts from Bellocchio's films to tell the Italian decline: of the family, of patriarchal society, of educational institutions, of religion.
In competition at Orizzonti there is Laura Bispuri with Il Paradisodel Pavone, while in the new section called Orizzonti Extraci there are two other Italian films: La ragazza ha volato by WilmaLabate and The machine of images by Alfredo C. by RolandSejko with Pietro De Silva. Two Italians also in the deicorti competition: Il Turno by Chiara Marotta and Loris Giuseppe Nese and Evening Prayer by Giuseppe Piccioni.
Two special screenings: Andrea Segre's work on the Venice Biennale at the time of Covid with the story of Venice 2020 and The 7 Days of Bergamo by Simona Ventura.
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