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BERGAMO FILM MEETING International Film Festival
35th edition | March 11-19, 2017
 

The 35th edition of Bergamo Film Meeting - which will take place from March 11 to 19, 2017 - is starting to take shape: the already announced retrospective devoted to award-winning Czech director Miloš Forman will be complemented by a focus on the new talents in contemporary cinema. Supported by the EU through the MEDIA sub-program of Creative Europe, the Festival offers a privileged overlook on the filmmakers of our continent, not only through the Competition - Exibition and the documentary film section, but also with "Europe, Now!", which will feature the complete filmography of three up and coming directors - Thanos Anastopoulos (Greece), Dominique Cabrera (France) and Dagur Kári (Iceland) – and, last but not least, through the usual focus on animation cinema, this year devoted to Estonian filmmaker Chintis Lundgren.

The 35th edition of Bergamo Film Meeting will officially open Friday, March 10 at the Teatro Donizetti: the program of the evening includes a screening - at 9:00 PM - of the 180' full version of Amadeus - Director's Cut, preceded at 8:00 PM by the opening of the exhibition "Milos Forman, la ribellione e lo sfarzo. Costumi da Oscar di Theodor Pištěk" (Milos Forman, rebellion and pageantry. Oscar-winning costumes by Theodor Pištěk) that will bring to Bergamo the priceless original costumes created for Amadeus and Valmont by Academy Award-winning designer Theodor Pištěk.

BFM35 OPENING

Bergamo, Friday, March 10 | Teatro Donizetti | 8:00 PM - Exhibition opening
Miloš Forman, rebellion and pageantry. Oscar-winning costumes by Theodor Pištěk
A journey through Miloš Forman's cinema seen through the original film costumes from Amadeus (1985) and Valmont (1990), created by Czech designer Theodor Pištěk, Academy Award winner for the first film and nominated for an Oscar for the latter. Kept by the Tirelli archive in Rome, the costumes will be on display for the first time in Italy. Original sketches by Pištěk will enrich the exhibition, along with set stills and posters of Forman's films from the Terry Posters archive in Prague. 
The exhibition will be open from March 10 to 19, 2017.

9:00 PM | Amadeus-Director's Cut 
Screening of the film Amadeus in its full 180' version of 2002, with remastered soundtrack and three previously unreleased scenes that were not included in the 1985 theatrical release.