:: GOODBYE TO 2006!

:: TAORMINA ARTE AWARD FOR CINEMATIC EXCELLENCE

Virna Lisi, Victoria Abril, Malcom McDowell, Hugh Hudson, Irene Papas, Andie MacDowell and Bob Rafelson: these are the prestigious personalities who received the Taormina Arte Award for Cinematic Excellence 2005 [read...]  

:: GREAT CINEMA AT THE GREEK THEATRE

The festival ends Every evening in world or European première the following nine films were seen on the wide screen of the Ancient Theatre [read...]  

:: CINEMA FROM AROUND THE WORLD. The Competition

The international jury of the festival, presided by Hugh Hudson, awarded the Taormina FilmFest Prize to GUY X by Saul Metzstein as the best film. Read the other prizes [read...]  

:: SHORTS IN TAORMINA. COMPETITION

The international jury of the festival, presided by Hugh Hudson, awarded the BNL Prize for the best short film (€ 5,000) to AGRICULTURAL REPORT by Melina Sydney Padua And a special mention to Maryline Canto and Antoine Chappey for POULET-POULET by Damien Chemin [read...]  

:: CINEMA LESSONS

The usual success of the lessons grants a typical peculiarity to this festival. Even this year the great personalities of the international cinema devoted themselves to the audience producing really great events. [read...]  

:: THE TAORMINA BNL FILM FEST 2005 BECOMES A TASTE FESTIVAL TOO

Sicilian Tastes on the limelight is the taste show, organized by the Assessorship for Agriculture and Forest of the Sicilian Region. [read...]  

:: UNSCHEDULED

A documentary by Sergio Nuti for Linea Blu - Rai Trade, a glance at the short film campus in Gallodoro [read...]  

:: PUBBLICATIONS

Besides the usual general catalogue, a daily paper of the festival will be published, the Taormina BNL FilmFest News. On the poster is printed the famous and well known picture by Mimmo Rotella - graphically worked out by Fabio Rotella - dedicated to Marilyn Monroe, which has become the logotype of the festival. [read...]  

:: CINEMA BOOKS AND DVD market/exhibition

For the first time, and starting from the 2005 edition, the Taormina BNL FilmFest hosted an exhibition/market on books and DVD’s regarding cinema. [read...]  

:: TAORMINA IN ROME

A selection of the short and full-lenght films showed at the Taormina BNL FilmFest will be reproposed from June 27th to July 2nd at Piazza Vittorio 

:: A YEAR OF TRANSITION, A YEAR OF CHANGES

It has been a very difficult year of work and research. An exhausting research for good films in a non-particularly exciting season... (Felice Laudadio) [read...]