The Ischia Global Fest returns with its twenty-first edition full of international guests and attention to current events, such as the relationship between film and artificial intelligence, which will be the central theme of the production summit, one of the most eagerly awaited talks of the event.
This year’s section dedicated to international cinema will also feature a vast catalogue of short films, with a significant Iranian presence among the directors and producers (Parosmia, Failed, For Child Never Born, From the Painter’s View, Najan, The Land and Bloody Gravel, awarded at the Astoria Film Festival).
And then the free screenings around the island, which have become a true format of the festival. This year there will be about 200 films, including several Oscar winners, among them Brendan Fraser of ‘The Whale’, director Rob Marshall and Diane Warren.
Also present on the Island was director Mike Figgis, who reported on the making of Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola’s new film, which should be ready for Cannes 2024, and on which he shot a documentary that could accompany the film’s release. “We recently finished shooting extra scenes on the border between Italy and Switzerland,” said Figgis. “I am thrilled with the work done, a mix of on-set footage and archive material, there is even Paul Newman reading the part that is now Adam Sandler’s! There will be interviews with Scorsese, Lucas, Spielberg. Coppola’s is a ‘futuristic’ film, set in a New York that will be called New Rome (at the centre is an architect who wants to rebuild the utopian metropolis after a disaster, ed.), very philosophical, but also a political satire’.
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