Three Italian films in running at Cannes

(ANSA) - Paris, April 16 - Three Italian films will be among the contenders in the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival next month, organizers said Thursday. They are Nanni Moretti's Mia Madre (My Mother), Oscar-winner Paolo Sorrentino's Youth and Matteo Garrone's Il Racconto dei Racconti (The Tale of the Tales). "We are happy and proud to represent Italy at the next Cannes Festival," the three directors said in a joint statement.
    "We are aware that it's a great opportunity for us and for the whole of Italian cinema".
    Sorrentino's The Great Beauty won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 2014 Academy Awards.
    Moretti won the Cannes Palme d'Or winner in 2001 with The Son's Room and in 2012 he was the president of the jury at the festival.
    Garrone's Gomorrah, a film adaptation of Roberto Saviano's hit book about the Casalesi clan of the Camorra mafia, was nominated for the Palme d'Or and won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2008.
    Another movie, the Other Side by Italian-American filmmaker, has been selected among the contenders in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes 2015, which runs May 13 to 24.