Ten Art Films to Watch at the 2024 Rome Film Festival

The 2024 Rome Film Festival (Festa del Cinema di Roma) features a rich program of ten art-related films spanning documentary and fiction, covering artists from Modigliani to Martin Parr. Highlights include the debut fiction feature by Masbedo (Nicolò Massazza and Iacopo Bedogni) set on Stromboli, starring Jacopo Olmo Antinori and Lino Musella, co-written with Giorgio Vasta. Elisa Fuksas presents a meta-documentary about her crisis of faith during a cruise to Medjugorje. Manfredi Lucibello reconstructs a 2000 hoax where Marco Lavagetto faked Oliviero Toscani curating scandalous artists at the first Tirana Biennale, with Bebo Storti playing a fake Toscani. Sonia Bergamasco's 'Duse, the greatest' explores actress Eleonora Duse through archival footage and interviews, including Ellen Burstyn. Lee Shulman's 'I am Martin Parr' profiles the British photographer. Michele Placido's 'Eterno Visionario' dramatizes Luigi Pirandello's life, starring Fabrizio Bentivoglio and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. Johnny Depp directs 'Modì – Tre giorni sulle ali della follia' about Amedeo Modigliani in 1916 Paris, with Riccardo Scamarcio and Al Pacino. Thierry Frémaux presents 'Lumière, le cinéma!', a sequel featuring restored Lumière films with a score by Gabriel Fauré. Viktor Kossakovskij's 'Architecton' meditates on architecture, featuring Michele De Lucchi's stone circle, and competed at the 2024 Berlinale.