Today at 7:00 p.m., Ema Stokholma, a DJ and television and radio host, will take the stage in the Sala Sinopoli of the Ennio Morricone Auditorium at the Parco della Musica to inaugurate the twenty-first edition of the Rome Film Festival. The ceremony will also be broadcast simultaneously from the Sala Petrassi.
During the evening, the opening film, The Noise of New Things by Paolo Genovese, will be presented within the Grand Public section. The director, author of international successes such as Follemente, a domestic box-office record in Italy in 2025 and winner of two Nastri d’Argento, Perfetti sconosciuti – the film that has recorded the greatest number of remakes in cinema history (about fifty worldwide), awarded at the Tribeca Film Festival, and winner of two David di Donatello and a Nastro d’Argento – and of numerous other titles beloved by audiences including Immaturi, Tutta colpa di Freud and Il primo giorno della mia vita, crafts a coral film in which the ensemble is led by Emanuela Fanelli, Claudia Pandolfi, Vittoria Puccini, Stefano Accorsi, Lino Musella, Edoardo Pesce with the participation of Claudio Santamaria. In the film, three different and unknown couples share what they have in common: the cage they have built around their lives out of fear of what might lie outside, and a dense web that has confined their feelings within a calm and reassuring perimeter. Until an unexpected event involves all of them, forcing them to reorder their hearts and souls, review their existence, and discard everything that perhaps is too much.
Before the screening, Tessa Ross – nominated for the Academy Award® for Conclave, winner of the BAFTA for the “extraordinary contribution to British cinema”, producer of the forthcoming Ink by Danny Boyle, and executive producer of successes such as Billy Elliot, The Millionaire, The Last King of Scotland, In Bruges, 12 Years a Slave and The Zone of Interest – will receive the Industry Lifetime Achievement Award. The recognition, intended for global cinema industry personalities who have left an indelible mark on the history of cinema, will be presented by director Edward Berger, with whom the producer collaborated on the film Conclave (presented at the Festival in 2024). As part of the ceremony, the Banca Ifis Music Award will also be conferred, awarded by Banca Ifis, Main Partner of the Festival, in collaboration with the Fondazione Cinema per Roma and the Fondazione Musica per Roma. The inaugural edition of the prize will go to Nicola Piovani, a central figure of Italian and international music and the author of some of the most important film soundtracks in cinema history. Over the course of his career, Piovani has composed more than 250 scores, working with the most esteemed Italian directors including Marco Bellocchio, Mario Monicelli, the Taviani brothers, Giuseppe Tornatore, Gabriele Muccino and Gianni Amelio, and with international filmmakers such as Dušan Makavejev, Jos Stelling, John Irvin, Bigas Luna and Sergej Bodrov. Among his numerous accolades, he received in 1999 the Academy Award for the score of Life Is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni and won the David di Donatello for Caro diario and The Son’s Room by Nanni Moretti, I fratelli De Filippo by Sergio Rubini, and Ginger and Fred by Federico Fellini, for which he also composed the musical commentary for The Moon and the Night and Intervista. The award will be presented by the director Marco Bellocchio. The two share an extraordinary artistic partnership that has seen them collaborate since the early 1970s: Piovani has indeed written the film scores for works such as Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina, Nel nome del padre, Marcia trionfale, up to the more recent Il traditore.
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