:: FAREWELL TILL THE YEAR 2003

We are looking forward to welcoming you all again to the next edition of the Taormina BNL Film Festival, which is going to take place from the 7th to the 14st of June 2003 , and the guest of honour will hopefully be Martin Scorsese. During the final press conference, released by the festival's artistic director Felice Laudadio, great news has been announced concerning the next year's edition, and also a very positive final balance has been drafted. [read more...] 

:: TAORMINA ARTE DIAMOND AWARD

All people who received the Taormina Arte Diamond Award 2002  [link...]

:: THE FESTIVAL'S GUESTS

We collected many photos of our guests: actors and actresses, directors, producers, singers and musicians and more... Vieni a visitarla!. Look our photogallery!  [link...]

:: SHORT FILM AWARDS

INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM
BNL International Short Film Award to: LA GOTERA by Benjamin Avila (Argentina)
and a special tribute to: FATA MORGANA by Alexandre Franchi (Canada);
I CORTI SICILIANI BNL
I Corti Siciliani Award to: I FORMALISTI SICILIANI NEL CINEMA by Marco Alessi
and a special tribute to: A DOMANI by Angelo Campolo [read more...]  [link...]

:: BNL - The Importance of Cinema

The relationship between BNL and the cinematographic world has been going on for over 60 years. If, in the past, it acted as a bank financing public funds, nowadays, BNL is a private credit agency, a bank which has always offered and still offers its knowledge and know how enhancing the expansion of this important branch of the Italian economy and culture [read more...] 

:: TORNATORE IS BACK IN TAORMINA

Giuseppe Tornatore presented the Italian preview for the Taormina Bnl Film Fest of a new advertisement conceived by Aima dealing with the Alzheimer disease. Up to this date, the ad has always been excluded by both Rai and Mediaset screenings. 

:: SERGIO LEONE'S RETROSPECTIVE

The retrospective dedicated to the cinema of Sergio Leone - was organised by Laura Delli Colli and Anna Maria Mecchia with the support of the Leone family and the strict collaboration of the National Film School-Cineteca Nazionale.  [link...]

:: IN COMMEMORATION OF FALCONE

In commemoration of the magistrate Giovanni Falcone’s death, murdered by the Mafia men, Giovanni Falcone: I giorni della speranza by Manuel Giliberti was projected. 

:: EVERY DAY ON TV

Cinema Stream dedicated a daily exhaustive broadcast to the Festival's events, presented by Mario Lanza. Also a daily window onto the Taormina Bnl Film Fest was accessible on RaiMed, the satellite channel for the Mediterranean, which is available in Italian and Arabic 

:: BOOKS AND SHOWS

The homage to Sergio Leone will be completed with an exhibition of scenarios, drawings, memorabilia, pictures taken from the various sets of his films, put together by Roberto Granata and accompanied by a photo-book from the same author. Also will be presented the Italian edition of the most important and imposing (more than 500 pages) volume about the cinema of Leone, written by Christopher Frayling and published by the Castoro Cinema editions in collaboration with the Taormina-BNL FilmFest.  [link...]

:: NASTRI D'ARGENTO AWARD:
Four prizes won by "L'ora di religione"

Four Nastri Awards toL’ora di religione by Marco Bellocchio. Awards also to “Il più bel giorno della mia vita” by Cristina Comencini and to Fandango. Robert Altman was conferred the prize as director of the best foreign film, and the award for the best emerging director of the year to Paolo Sorrentino and his “L’uomo in più”. Valeria Golino and Sergio Castellitto won the Nastri Awards for best protagonist actress and actor, whereas Margherita Buy, Sandra Ceccarelli, Virna Lisi and Leo Gullotta won the prizes for best actresses and actor in supporting roles. European Nastro Award to Pedro Almodovar.  [link...]