:: GREAT CINEMA AT THE GREEK THEATRE

GIOVANNI RENZO and his piano. THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and his eternal charme. Tonight we can see the mute movie (1925) by Rupert Julian with Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry. Giovanni Renzo will play with his music the movie [leggi...]  

:: CINEMA LESSONS

The last appointment in the Taormina Film Fest Cinema Lesson programme is wit Deepa Mehta. The indian director will meet the journalist and students. The debate will begin at the end of showing of "Earth " to complete the trilogy. A multi-award-winning director in Canada, Usa and Europe, Deepa Mehta often had to take on te extremists in order to tell her stories. For "Water" she received death threats and the set was burnt down. [leggi...]  

:: SPECIAL EVENT

The special event on this sunday (h. 6.00 pm)is the first feature film of Christian Bisceglia AGENTE MATRIMONIALE with Corrado Fortuna, Nicola Savino and Elena Buryka. At 5.00 pm will be seen ten minutes of a work in progress, SALVATORE, by Gian Paolo Cugno with Enrico Lo Verso, Galatea Ranzi and Giancarlo Giannini. [leggi...]  

:: ITALIAFILMFEST - SHORT FEATURES

The Taormina Award of 5.000 euros for the best international short film went to Mireia Girò Costa (Te quiero mal) 

:: ITALIAFILMFEST- LONG FEATURES

During Taormina Film Fest 2006 14 films were seen on the wide screen of the Ancient Theatre.

The international jury of Fipresci awarded the ItaliaFilmFest Prize to... Read the awards! [leggi...]  

:: ITALIAFILMFEST - DOCUMENTARIES

Very interesting was the section dedicated to docufilms. The Vittorio De Seta prize for the best documentary is gone to Marco Turco for EXCELLENT CADAVERS 

:: TAORMINA ARTE AWARDS FOR CINEMATIC EXCELLENCES

Carlo Verdone, Krzysztof Zanussi, Luis Enriquez Bacalov, Valeria Golino, Francesca Lo Schiavo, Dante Ferretti e Deepa Mehta: these are the prestigious personalities who received the Taormina Arte Awards for cinematic excellence 

:: SICILY TASTE TO THE LIMELIGHT

A festival of scent, colours and tastes next to the Taormina Filmfest 2006.
An initiative of the Regional Agriculture Assessor ship, that arises again also this year, after the success of the last performance [leggi...]  

:: The presentation

What a strange year – 2006 – for the TaorminaFilmFest,
as it’s called now. [leggi...]  

:: Taormina Film Fest starts

The 52nd edition of the TaorminaFilmFest will take place from June 20th to June 25th at the Greek Theatre and at the Taormina Congress Palace under the artistic direction of Felice Laudadio. [leggi...]