10 Italian films in NYC's MoMA, from Garrone to Moretti

(ANSA) - Rome, November 26 - The prestigious library of New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will soon have 10 RAI Cinema co-produced Italian films, including ones from such important directors as Moretti, Bellocchio, Garrone and Crialese. The selection of contemporary award-winning authors, acclaimed in Italy and abroad, will become part of the museum.
    The films are: Matteo Garrone's 'Racconto dei Racconti', Alice Rohrwahcer's 'Le Meraviglie', Gianfranco Rosi's 'Sacro Gra', Paolo and Vitorio Taviani's 'Cesare Deve Morire', Emanuele Crialese's 'Terraferma', Matteo Garrone's 'Gomorra', Gianni Amelio's 'Le Chiavi di Casa', Marco Bellocchio's 'Buongiorno, Notte', Ermanno Olmi's 'Il Mestiere delle Armi' and Nanni Moretti's 'La Stanza del Figlio'. "Our Italian cinema," said RAI Cinema managing director Paolo Del Brocco in presenting the agreement in Rome, "is in a good period abroad, with films including small ones that go to dozens of cinemas and festivals, receiving applause and prizes.
    The initiative with MoMA fills us with pride. This all stems from the meeting with and the interest of Roy Rajendra, the head of the museum film department. We offered a selection and they drew up the final list." Del Brocco said that "the next concrete target will have to be systematically organize our Italian cinema abroad with strong coordination and companies that already work abroad, trying to make a strategic plan for cultural production abroad. Something is moving forward, through arduously. Though we all agree on the valorization and internationalization of our cinema, there is the issue of investment and the will to do more." It is at MoMA that the 'Italian Film, 21st-Century Style' will begin on December 4. A tribute to RAI Cinema, with the screening for the first time in the US of 'Racconto dei Racconti', in the presence of director Garrone. RAI Cinema will also be holding - from Saturday, December 5 to Tuesday, December 8 - three events to promote and valorize the image of Italian creativity and identity through cinema.
    The latter will include a photographic book published by RAI Eri) with shots from the best of the 10 films selected; the screening of 'Non Essere Cattivo' by Caludio Caligari as part of a promotional drive for the Oscars in the Best Foreign Film category, in the presence of producer Valerio Mastandrea; the screening of the 'Sono Cosa Nostra' by Simone Aleandri, made by RAI Cinema and the anti-mafia association Libera; and the screening of the documentary 'Esuli-Le Guerre' by Barbara Cupisti. Partners of the event include the Italian consulate and the New York Italian Institute of Culture as well as Cinecittà Studios, which with Cinecittà Digital Factory worked on 5 of the 10 films in the MoMA permanent collection. photo: a still from Garrone's Tale of Tales