The Middleburg Film Festival (October 14-17, 2021) has selected two first-rate Italian films again this year. \u201cThe Hand of God\u201d by Oscar-winner Paolo Sorrentino is scheduled for Friday, October 15, at 5:30pm in the presence of the director and leading actor Filippo Scotti. After the screening, John Horn, longtime Los Angeles Times film reporter and now host of \u201cThe Frame\u201d on KPCC radio, will be in conversation with Director Sorrentino and, afterwards, the Italian Ambassador Mariangela Zappia will present him with the International Spotlight Award 2021.<\/p>\n
The other Italian film selected is “A Chiara” by director Jonas Carpignano, which premiered at Cannes and won the Directors’ Fortnight Award and the Europa Labels Award as best European film.<\/p>\n
The Middleburg Film Festival takes place throughout the town of Middleburg, set at the foot of Virginia\u2019s Blue Ridge Mountains and known for local art, cooking, horseback riding and wineries. The festival draws international filmgoers and is recognized as one of the “stops on the road to the Oscars”.<\/p>\n
The ninth edition of the Middleburg Film Festival will be back in-presence with four days of screenings of selected movies from Oscar-nominated films, foreign language films, and independent documentaries with a strong focus on diversity. Other honorees include writer and director Kenneth Branagh (\u201cBelfast\u201d), actors Ann Dowd (\u201cMass\u201d), Dakota Johnson (\u201cThe Lost Daughter\u201d), the ensemble cast of A24\u2019s \u201cRed Rocket,\u201d cinematographer Ari Wegner (\u201cThe Power of the Dog\u201d) and legendary composer and songwriter Charles Fox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Middleburg Film Festival (October 14-17, 2021) has selected two first-rate Italian films again this year. \u201cThe Hand of God\u201d by Oscar-winner Paolo Sorrentino is scheduled for Friday, October 15, at 5:30pm in the presence of the director and leading actor Filippo Scotti. After the screening, John Horn, longtime Los Angeles Times film reporter and […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambwashingtondc.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}