The 5 film in the Casa Rossa competition

After twenty years, the Casa Rossa award is back at the Bellaria Film Festival. The Casa Rossa award has been able to point out the best debuts of independent Italian cinema (from Silvio Soldini to Giuseppe Piccioni, from Matteo Garrone and Paolo Sorrentino to Michelangelo Frammartino and Pietro Marcello).

This year the section will host five films, first or second works, by authors who have made a name for themselves not only in Italy, but to international audiences at major festivals, for their unique vision and the power of their way of making cinema.

The five films in competition for the Casa Rossa prize are: Small Body by Laura Samani (Nefertiti Film), Mother Lode by Matteo Tortone (Malfé Film), The legionnaire by Hleb Papou (Clemart), The Tale of King Crab by Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis (Ring Films) and Atlantide by Yuri Ancarani (Dugong Films).

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Chosen by the artistic direction of the 40th Bellaria Film Festival, these films not only represent the new authors of Italian cinema, on whom to bet for the future, but also the most interesting production realities that are establishing themselves on the national scene.

During the Festival screenings, the films will be presented in the auditorium by the authors, accompanied by the producers or the leading actors. This will create stimulating moments of encounter, involving the festival audience and the fifty or so film students and young professionals of the BFF Hub.

The restoration of the Casa Rossa Award after more than twenty years is further confirmation of the intention of the Festival’s new management, aimed at making Bellaria the home of Italian independent cinema once again, starting with this important and valuable section that hosts five of the best Italian films of the past season.

The Casa Rossa Award was created in 1987, the first winners were Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, and it has continued over the years to highlight the most relevant new voices on the Italian film scene, from the experimentation of the 1980s to the new authors of the 1990s, and the wave of new talents that emerged in the documentary sector at the beginning of the new millennium. A history now spanning forty years.